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The British Museum throws a party with Marvel heroes and drag queens

Spiderman and Thor made an appearance

Evening Standard

All those in favour say Ai

For much of his life, Ai Weiwei has fought the oppression of the Chinese Communist Party. As he signs sheets of A4 in invisible ink at Speakers’ Corner — a reference to the protests currently going on in his home country — Kate Wills heads down to meet him

Evening Standard

‘Tastes can be fickle’: how did a giant modernist sculpture end up gathering moss in a Milton Keynes field?

Keith McCarter’s 1969 mural was a beacon of postwar optimism. But efforts to find a new home for it have proven fruitless. Now it can be yours for free – but you’ll need a very big wall to exhibit it

The Guardian - UK

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Glasgow-based silversmith wins prestigious prize for 'exceptional' goblet

A GLASGOW-BASED silversmith has received a unique award where the prize is the chance to create a handmade goblet that will become part of a highly…

The National (Scotland)

Tracey Emin brain sculpture sold at auction to raise money for Parkinson’s UK

It fetched £7,500 at Christie's auction house as part of the Me, My Brain And I series

Wales Online

Police break into gallery to help ‘unconscious woman’ only to discover it is art installation

Police broke into an art gallery to aid an unconscious person inside before discovering it was an art installation

The Independent UK

University of Cambridge to hand back looted 'Benin bronzes' to Nigeria

Significant historical objects were plundered by the British Army during the sacking of Benin City in 1897

Wales Online

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Tracey Emin brain sculpture sold at auction in aid of Parkinson’s UK

The work was among a selection of sculptures sold at Christie’s auction house as part of the Me, My Brain And I series.

The Independent UK

University of Cambridge to return looted Benin bronzes

Approval for the restitution of 116 artefacts was given by the Charity Commission.

The Independent UK

Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?

From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away

The Guardian - UK

Amazing new street art in Swansea celebrates Black British artists who inspired students in Wales

"These people are inspirations for me and for Joel as art students, to see ourselves represented and believe that we could also achieve the same things that they achieved."

Wales Online

In a small Russian town, a pensioner's street art denounces Ukraine conflict

Over 20 years, Russian pensioner Vladimir Ovchinnikov gained a following for his street murals in the small town of Borovsk, some 70 miles (115 km) southwest of Moscow, many of which depicted the plight of victims of Stalinist-era repressions.

Reuters

Artist Casey Jenkins scores legal victory after Australia Council revokes funding for performance piece

Casey Jenkins is suing the Australia Council for snatching away a $25,000 grant over an exhibition which showed audiences the possible moment of conception through monthly self-inseminations and daily IVF injections.

ABC News

Australia Council faces legal setback in case brought by self-insemination artist

Casey Jenkins is suing national arts body for withdrawing funding for performance exhibition Immaculate in 2020

The Guardian - AU

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Chicago Sun-Times

Faculty at Art Institute’s school aligns with AFSCME

Adjunct professors and lecturers voted overwhelmingly to join AFSCME, adding to the union’s winning streak in recent elections.

Bangkok Post

Finding meaning through art

At Gallery Ver Project Room, visitors can see projections of 3D chicks walking under a handmade woven coop. While the chicks are walking, various objects -- mobile phones, laptops, cameras, doughnuts, bubble milk tea plastic cups, cars, airplanes, dumbbells and placards -- randomly drop on their heads.

Evening Standard

Metropolitan Police break into Soho gallery Laz Emporium to find ‘distressed woman’ is art installation

Art gallery worker got surprise when Met Police forced their way into venue to ‘help’ model made of foam filler and packing tape

Newsroom.co.nz

We deserve better than Auckland's art vandal

Wayne Brown's threat to the arts as a publicly-funded good flies in the face of wide research showing art makes the everyday struggles of urban living more bearable, writes Peter O'Connor.

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Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition brings more than 50,000 visitors to the Laing Art Gallery

56,663 people visited the Gallery alone, though a year-long programme of events across the North East inspired by the Gospels is likely to have attracted even more

The Guardian - UK

‘An unfinished Frankenstein’s monster’: the disastrous new Orange County Museum of Art

With ambitiously fractured form, this $94m gallery is open to visitors – if they can find their way inside – but its wonkily assembled parts are a long way from finished

The Guardian - UK

Douglas Gordon review – pop is a light that never goes out

Using snatches of illuminated song lyrics, Neon Ark cleverly shows how words that aren’t our own can be intimately felt

Pedestrian.tv

Renaissance Man Liam Payne Revealed He Spent 50 Goddamn Hours On A Payne-Ting Of… The Queen

Liam Payne recently revealed he spent 50 hours on an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II, a follow up to his painting of Prince Philip.

Evening Standard

Liam Payne pays tribute to late Queen with stunning painting which took over 2 days to create

The singer unveiled the impressive artwork in tribute to the late monarch on Instagram

ABC News

Productivity Commission proposes mandatory labelling, "cultural rights" laws to combat continued rise in fake Indigenous art

Of the $250 million spent on Indigenous artworks in 2019-20, $54 million went towards products created without the involvement of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, according to a new report by the Productivity Commission.

The Conversation

Artworks are more than just plot clues in The White Lotus season 2 – they are the show’s silent witnesses

In Western art history, a mise en abyme is a technique of placing one image inside another, or a story inside a story. It serves the purpose of illuminating the hidden meaning in an image. This can also be thought of as an allegory.

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