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The Parthenon marbles: George Osborne wants to return the statues to Athens, but can he? A legal expert explains

George Osborne – former UK chancellor and now chair of trustees at the British Museum – is reported to have negotiated the repatriation of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles to Athens.

The Conversation

Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe staple, makes its long-awaited debut in Texas in 2023

DALLAS — Visitors who drop by Grapevine Mills later this year will be able to do much more than shop. Santa Fe-based immersive art company Meow Wolf is bringing its fourth permanent installation to the mall in 2023.

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Outrage as art history professor fired for showing medieval paintings of prophet Muhammad in class

Erika López Prater says she took many precautions before showing paintings of the prophet

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‘Art makes a person broader’: what sculptor Ruth Asawa knew that Rishi Sunak doesn’t

The British PM may believe that compulsory maths is the key to education – but Asawa showed a different path, armed with little more than flour and water

The Guardian - UK

Chronicles of That Time review – migrant life study casts eye over fortress Europe

This enigmatic film by two artists recounts 15 years of migration to Europe – but tells us too little about its human subjects

The Guardian - UK

Thai artists branch out at UOB Awards

Competitions are a great way to help artists get recognised. To that end, the well-known UOB Painting of the Year competition provides them with not only local recognition but also an opportunity to compete at the regional level among other artists from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore at the UOB Southeast…

Bangkok Post

Story behind the peace murals seen throughout Liverpool and Merseyside

You might have seen one of the hundreds of small murals throughout the city centre

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At Skokie Jewish center, this mural by the ‘Pop Art Rabbi’ aims to convey the essence of a ‘mitzvah’

“There is public art in Skokie and Chicago,” says the Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie rabbi who tapped his friend Rabbi Yitzchok Moully to create the mural. “But there isn’t Jewish public art. And that’s what I wanted.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Interactive Glasgow mural to commemorate first female commercial pilot

The amazing story of Winnie Drinkwater from Cardonald, will be opened up to a whole new audience thanks to the project, which hopes to also celebrate other local heroes.

Glasgow Live

From a skip to the Saatchi: the dazzling outsider artist we almost lost

A neighbour’s vigilance saved George Westren’s stunning works being binned by removal men. Now the remarkable story ends with a showpiece exhibit

The Guardian - UK

Giorgio Morandi review – sublime still lives shimmer with mystery and joy

Humble, haunting and deeply enigmatic, these masterful paintings resist obvious symbolism to show us the poetry of the everyday

The Guardian - UK

Italian eeriness, British villainy and Cornish splendour – the week in art

Giorgio Morandi gets a startling new show, Marcus Harvey takes on antiheroes and Barbara Hepworth in St Ives – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Paper-making history of Midlothian town honoured in new community artwork

Panels created by Fiona Maher and the local community through a series of workshops will be unveiled in the town hall in January

Edinburgh Live

Kids, submit your artwork on Chicago diversity for student art contest; winning work to be turned into a mural at the Salt Shed

The Sun-Times, WBEZ and Vocalo are sponsoring the contest. The theme: ‘Bringing Chicago’s voices together,’ to celebrate the city’s diversity. Here’s how to enter.

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In Nairobi, Naperville native Jennifer Sapitro helps Kenyans fulfill their artistic dreams

She grew up in the west suburb and has lived for over 10 years in Kenya, where she helped start a foundation and an art program for people in an impoverished area.

Daily Record

Skilled Dumbarton woodworker transforms church pews into chopping boards

Tom Gardiner has upcycled the pews from the former EU Congregational Church on Glasgow Road.

The Guardian - UK

I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child?

All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Riyadh Art Exhibition Highlights 'Fall of Baghdad'

After the Fall of Baghdad in 2003, Iraqi Artist Elaf Adel al-Alousi left her country full of emotions that she strongly wanted to express with painting. Running until January 7, her first exhibition dubbed “Dreamers of the Other Time” currently held at the Naila Art Gallery, Riyadh, highlights Elaf’s artistic…

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The Conversation

How Hockney's iPad paintings illuminate his enriching way of seeing the everyday

My Window describes flowers and the sunrise in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. I started on the iPhone in 2009 … it was backlit and I could draw in the dark. I didn’t ever have to get out of bed. Everything I needed was on the iPhone.

The Guardian - UK

British collector of Russian art saves Málaga museum from possible closure

Jenny Green offers to exhibit her private collection at Museo Ruso, a Russian art museum

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow considers legal graffiti walls amid street art renaissance

Council discussing how best to channel creativity as murals help transform many areas of city

Wales Online

Women are marrying themselves as an act of self-love

“Onlookers were not aware of what was happening. It was one of the most life changing experiences of my life.”

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry calls for return of Parthenon marbles to Athens

Removing sculptures from Greece was like ‘removing Eiffel Tower from Paris’, says actor

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions in London this winter, from Chanel to Marina Abramović

It’s a fabulous season for art lovers...

Newcastle Herald

Powerful salute to desert artistry

The 50th anniversary of Australia's oldest Indigenous arts company is being commemorated at Booragul's yapang Gallery, writes JO COOPER.

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