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Four resignations and a ‘deflated’ artist: inside the battle for the artistic legacy of Broken Hill

The curator, gallery manager and two other senior staff resign from Broken Hill’s art gallery as the council exerts its influence over what constitutes ‘local’ art

The Guardian - AU · Dec 17, 2022

Dinosaur head sold for $6m at US auction reveals new breed of art collectors

Sale of Maximus T rex at Sotheby’s reveals growing interest in palaeontological finds at auction houses

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022

German police recover bulk of booty from $120 million Dresden diamonds heist

Most of the jewels stolen from a historic Dresden art collection in 2019 in a $120 million heist have been recovered, German police and prosecutors said on Saturday.

Reuters · Dec 17, 2022

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Arson squad investigates Giants of Mandurah fire which destroyed popular sculpture

Vivi Cirklestone, a large wooden sculpture that took a Danish artist hundreds of hours to build for the Giants of Mandurah exhibition, has been burned down.

ABC News · Dec 17, 2022

Ed Paschke’s artwork still dazzles even in mural reproductions in a Northwest Side viaduct

You don’t have to go to a museum or gallery to see the Chicago art great’s work. You can see them in murals that have been up for years along Lawrence Avenue just west of the Kennedy Expressway.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 16, 2022

‘It’s like a living installation’: a young family’s Fear and Loathing portrait

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clarissa and Tim Harris show us the gonzo painting they commissioned, which will grow with their family

The Guardian - AU · Dec 16, 2022

Kids, submit your artwork for our new student art contest. Your work could end up as a mural.

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 16, 2022

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Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.

Reuters · Dec 16, 2022

Larkin goes pop, Freud goes deep and rhinos go on the prowl – the week in art

The poet’s pop-culture tastes are laid bare for shoppers, while Turner’s wondrous colours hit Edinburgh and Manchester is bathed in light

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

Pope returns Greece's Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod

Pope Francis has decided to give back to Greece the three fragments of Parthenon marbles that the Vatican Museums have held for centuries

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

‘Like hell’: Henry Moore drawings of coalminers’ wartime work on show

Scupltor and miner’s son was commissioned to spend a week making sketches of men in Yorkshire pit

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

Flood of summer shows at Maitland gallery

Maitland Regional Art Gallery has eight new exhibitions to enlighten and entertain visitors through the summer holidays.

Newcastle Herald · Dec 16, 2022

Humboldt Park building will block mural — so artist was asked to create new one

“It was an ode to an era,” said artist Antonio Beniquez, who’s been asked to create a mural for the new building that evokes the old mural.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 16, 2022

Archaeologists say find near Stonehenge is ancient goldsmith’s toolkit

Reanalysis of millennia-old axes and polished stones found in 1802 has revealed tiny traces of gold

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

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Belfast Live · Dec 15, 2022

Bangor artist stunned as Carl Frampton stops by to pick up 'epic' portrait

It's part of Johnny Hamilton's NI Legends collection which highlights the people who helped shape Northern Ireland

Daily Record · Dec 15, 2022

Shrek appears in Ayrshire park with fairytale characters set for new kids attraction

The fantastic creations have been set up in Rozelle for the public to enjoy.

Chronicle Live · Dec 15, 2022

'Why do we have to ask London for permission?' – New call to keep Lindisfarne Gospels in the North East

More than 50,000 people saw the ancient treasure during a display in Newcastle, but there are now renewed calls to bring the manuscript back to its home region permanently

The Conversation · Dec 15, 2022

Quentin Blake at 90: celebrating the joy and magic of the illustrator of Matilda, The BFG and beyond

The expression “national treasure” could have been invented for Sir Quentin Blake who celebrates his 90th birthday on December 16 – and we might also celebrate his considerable impact on the status and understanding of the art of illustration.

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The Conversation · Dec 15, 2022

Spain's new memory law dredges up a painful chapter of Spain's often forgotten ties to Nazis

Walking down a tree-lined street in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, one might easily miss a small bronze square set into the sidewalk. Stamped into the metal in the regional language of Catalan are the words: “Here lived Francesc Boix Campo, born 1920, exiled 1939, deported 1941, Mauthausen, liberated.”

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

Ashley Bickerton obituary

Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural world

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

Matthew Arthur Williams review – essential explosion of working-class cliches

Delving into his identity using nude portraits, family photos and found footage of Jamaica and Stoke-on-Trent, Williams explores compelling truths about immigrant labour and the meaning of home

Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2022

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

Spiderman and Thor made an appearance

Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

‘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 National (Scotland) · Dec 15, 2022

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…

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