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Jimmy Carr Destroys Art may be the stupidest take on ‘cancel culture’ yet

The ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’ comic stands before an audience and asks whether he should destroy artworks by Adolf Hitler, Rolf Harris and Picasso. Even if it weren’t for Carr’s own sketchy history with controversy, Channel 4’s new programme would be a terrible idea, writes Louis Chilton

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Jimmy Carr’s controversial art destruction show

The comedian goes ahead with this questionable TV experiment. Plus: Stormzy is the first guest in Louis Theroux’s new celebrity interview series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Donatello’s David sculpture to go on display in UK for first time

Renaissance artist’s famous marble to form part of V&A exhibition exploring his cultural impact

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‘A lot of my work has this insane anxiety about it’: David Shrigley on worrying, God and drawing like a five-year-old

He has been shortlisted for the Turner prize for his acerbic, often hilarious images. Now living in the countryside with his wife and dog, the artist has produced a new book – and his work is as tense and restless as ever

The Guardian - UK

'Freaked out' Burley Banksy from Leeds says newfound fame makes him feel anxious

The 51-year-old, well known for painting electricity boxes in Leeds United colours, has been invited to speak at swanky dos and fans ask for selfies

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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery review - weird and wonderful

A show about this extraordinary, humble material that can say so much

Evening Standard

Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed

Peter Schjeldahl, the eminent and widely read New York art critic, died Friday at his country home in the tiny upstate town of Bovina, near the Catskills, where he and his wife, former actor Brooke Alderson, lived. He was 80.

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Lady Leshurr attacked ex-girlfriend and woman’s new partner, court told

Prosecutors claim artist attacked Chante Boyea and Sidnee Hussein after she left club in Hackney Wick

The Independent UK

Spencer Tunick plans Sydney beach shoot

US artist Spencer Tunick, famed for his photographs of nude crowds in public spaces, will stage a photo shoot on a Sydney beach.

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The author who became a mermaid

The metamorphosis of Megan Dunn

Newsroom.co.nz

When it's okay to break the law

When can we justify violent forms of civil disobedience? When it's effective, writes David Jenkins.

Newsroom.co.nz

2,500 naked bodies needed: Spencer Tunick announces his return to Sydney

The US artist’s next mass nude installation will take place in November at a Sydney beach. ‘We’re hoping for a rainbow of people,’ he says

The Guardian - AU

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy, 10, bids over $80,000 for diamond earrings

The youngster stunned the audience at the Wearable Art Gala auction

Evening Standard

I have never felt shame like this as we keep ignoring climate change

I am bemused by the reaction to the climate salvation protests, which include some journalists suggesting motorists assault protesters when they glue themselves to the road. (Their obvious intentions are littered with lawyerly caveats, which is offensive. Euphemisms are for the cowardly and lost).

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Daily Mirror

Beyonce's daughter Blue Ivy, 10, draws gasps as she bids $80k for earrings at auction

Blue Ivy is encouraged by her mother Beyonce to develop a passion for the arts

The Independent UK

Sale of Jeff Koons sculpture funds rehab centres for wounded Ukrainian soldiers

The piece was sold by Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk and his wife Olena to fund the project.

The Guardian - UK

A local’s guide to Antwerp, Belgium: high art, gritty graffiti and great coffee

From Rubens and van Eyck to cutting edge street murals and fashion, art is at the heart of the Flemish city, says local guide Tim Marschang. The beer and cocktails are decent too

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

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Fred Williams is known for his landscapes. But his drawings are little pockets of explosive expressive energy

Review: Fred Williams: The London Drawings, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

The Guardian - UK

‘A way through the darkness’: the art show sublimating the horrors of past half-century

In The Horror Show!, artists and film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Polland curate a terrifying tour through the times of their lives, from cold war angst to Gen Z activism

Bangkok Post

A call for preservation

The demolition of the Scala Theatre, Dusit Thani Hotel and Siam Intercontinental Hotel had widespread media coverage. However, many people may not know that other important modern structures such as the old parliament building, Arkanmai at Suan Amporn and the Telephone Organization of Thailand building in Chidlom were also demolished.…

The Canberra Times

Westfield Belconnen revamp aims to transform town centre

Westfield Belconnen is seeking community feedback on ideas for a revamped site.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Climate Protesters Throw Mashed Potatoes at Monet Painting

Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction but caused no visible damage to the glass-covered painting Sunday. Two activists from the group Last Generation, which has called on the German government to take drastic action to protect the…

The Guardian - UK

Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany

Two protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in Potsdam

The Independent UK

Margaret Thatcher statue vandalised for third time in Grantham

Two hours after the monument was erected in May, the statue was egged

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