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'Not all heroes wear capes' - Notes left for BINMEN during Covid lockdown to go on display

'You are my heroes'

Manchester Evening News · Feb 13, 2023

Big Women review – Sarah Lucas’s gal gang seek to shock

The former YBA has curated a show of 25 female artists – but the effect is superficial and cliquey

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

Leeuwarden museum burglary as 11 high value items stolen during daring heist

Burglars forced their way into the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands - which houses some of the most-valuable ceramic art in the country, including priceless Ming vases

Daily Mirror · Feb 13, 2023

Norman Dilworth obituary

Artist associated with the Systems Group, whose work was based on simply geometric forms

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

Daylight rubbery: the cemetery stalker who turns celebrity gravestones into art

Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Nikita Khrushchev … Scott Covert takes rubbings at big names’ graves, often getting chased away. ‘It breaks my heart,’ he says, ‘when I hear someone’s been cremated’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

Major Newcastle exhibition captures enduring appeal of Ancient Egypt

Visions of Ancient Egypt: Art, Design and the Cultural Imagination is running at Laing Art Gallery until April 29 with displays of art, jewellery, costumes, photographs and film

Chronicle Live · Feb 13, 2023

'I moved into a skip because of crazy cost of living'

Harrison Marshall, 28, says he returned to London from abroad only to find the cost of renting had soared beyond belief

Wales Online · Feb 13, 2023

Treasury spent £3,000 of taxpayers' cash on arty photos when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor

Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase of 13 'fine art photographs' was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021

Daily Mirror · Feb 13, 2023

‘Crazy’ cost of living in London prompts artist to move into a skip for a year

Harrison Marshall said the move ‘highlights just how crazy it is to live in central London’.

The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2023

Penny for your thoughts – man brings joy to social media through painted coins

Cody TheCreative began the penny painting project in 2016 and has painted many popular characters on the coins.

The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2023