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Glasgow artist who underwent 'daunting' epilepsy brain surgery says it has changed her life

Helen Butler, 42, donated paintings to the neurology department at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after undergoing the brain surgery that changed her life.

Glasgow Live

‘The Embrace’ Martin Luther King Jr. Boston memorial causes a stir

BOSTON — It’s a matter of perspective.

Boston Herald

Imagining a new world

A few days after the dawn of the new year, I found myself on the move earlier than usual. It is not usually until the second week we hit the ground running. After all, who would fly to Singapore just for an art exhibition? But I took it on because,…

Bangkok Post

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Scots artist who had 25 seizures a week thanks medics after life-changing surgery

Helen Butler has donated paintings to the Glasgow hospital where she had the life-changing surgery in 2018, and has even been able to pass her driving test since then.

Daily Record

Teacher and artist ‘humbled’ to be named new High Sheriff of Fermanagh

Noelle McAlinden has been named as the latest Fermanagh person to take up the ceremonial role for the year ahead

Belfast Live

Landmark Nottingham owls auctioned off to raise vital funds for charity

Money raised will help people who are struggling amid the cost of living crisis

Nottingham Post

Work from Dumfries and Galloway school students goes on display at Gracefield Arts Centre

The free exhibition highlights the talent of young artists across the region

Daily Record

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'How do you just lose a painting like that?': Detroit museum packed in wake of van Gogh controversy

DETROIT — Cheryle Van Wert said she can't fathom how a $5 million Vincent van Gogh painting could have disappeared for six years before turning up at the Detroit Institute of Arts — but she said she drove 100 miles Sunday from Saginaw to the museum to see for herself…

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A century of artistic influence

The life and works of the father of Thai contemporary art is recounted during "Remembering Silpa Bhirasri: 100 Years After His Arrival In Thailand" which is running at RCB Photographers' Gallery 1, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, until Feb 12.

Bangkok Post

How Munch’s friend hid a masterpiece in a Norwegian barn to foil the Nazis

Owner’s family to sell Dance on the Beach and split up to £20m with descendants of Jewish academic who had to sell it in 1934

The Guardian - UK

Carpaccio the artist, not the appetizer, now getting his due

Most people think of “carpaccio” as the thinly sliced raw beef appetizer made famous by Venice’s iconic Harry’s Bar

The Independent UK

Why the Dutch apology for slavery leaves a bitter taste in my mouth

An apology only counts when there is a genuine process of reparation and reform. The people of the Dutch Caribbean are still waiting, says writer Jermain Ostiana

The Guardian - UK

Hamline University under fire for art professor's dismissal

A Minnesota university’s dismissal of a professor for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course has put the small, private school at the center of a debate over how to include controversial material in college courses while respecting students’ personal relationship to the material

The Independent UK

Sydney Festival brings Frida Kahlo to Barangaroo, Sun and Sea and lucid dreams to the CBD, in program big on ‘immersive’ experiences

In its opening week, Sydney Festival pulled out all the stops to entice audiences with "immersive" and unique experiences in unusual locations — but how was the art?

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‘Andy Warhol in Iran’ — a fictional meeting brings together an artist and a revolutionary in a very real world

Artistic director BJ Jones helms the award-winning drama, based on Warhol’s 1976 visit to the country.

Reuters

Princess in villa with unique Caravaggio faces eviction

A U.S.-born princess who lives in a Roman villa featuring the world's only known mural by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio said on Friday she faced eviction from the unique property at the centre of a raging inheritance battle.

Radio France Internationale

Sarcophagus of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II to make rare visit to France

Nearly half a century after it was first shown in Paris in 1976, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II will be back on display in France. On special loan from Egypt, it will be the highlight of a major exhibition in the French capital from April to September, organisers announced…

The Guardian - UK

Beuys’ dreams, bejewelled paintings and Avatar for art lovers – the week in art

The watercolours behind Beuys’ sculptures are revealed, Soheila Sokhanvari commemorates Iran’s feminist icons and Sahej Rahal creates a digital world

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Ruth Asawa’s inspirational art lessons gave us a sense of the possible

Letter: Tim Hitchcock on the lifelong impact of what he learned as a child at the Alvarado School Arts Workshop in San Francisco

The Conversation

John Chilembwe: a new statue celebrates Malawi Pan-Africanist the world forgot

Samson Kambalu is a Malawian conceptual artist, writer and academic, whose sculpture Antelope was installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London in September 2022. The Fourth Plinth was originally designed for a large scale equestrian statue of a British monarch but is now reserved for a contemporary…

Daily Record

Ukrainian artists' exhibition to be staged in West Lothian

Two talented artists will have their work on display next week at Livingston Designer Outlet

The Guardian - UK

UK risks being listed as a ‘human rights abuser’, NGO warns

Human Rights Watch warns UK has ‘very short window’ to reverse legislation, including restrictions on the right to protest

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Firing an art history professor for showing students an image of the Prophet Muhammad is out of line

The art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ancient depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as part of her global art history course at Hamline University, a…

Los Angeles Times

The famous Bay Bridge lights may soon go dark, unless a bunch of millionaires step in

For nearly 10 years, the cascade of lights along the Bay Bridge has illuminated the San Francisco Bay. The public art installation, expected to be removed after just a few years, has become a fixture.

Zenger

New World’s Tallest Christ Statue Is A Religious And Tourism Draw In Brazil

The towering figure has received more than 130,000 tourists since May 2021.

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