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Asia NOW Paris art fair: A platform for Asia's creative scene and its diaspora

In this special edition of the programme, we take you to Asia NOW, Europe's premier Asian art fair. This year, it was relocated from a private mansion in the French capital to the Monnaie de Paris, which houses the world’s oldest continuously running mint. Some 27,000 people attended this eighth…

France 24 · Oct 28, 2022

Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Back on Display

Johannes Vermeer's “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands' Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece. “We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum's director, Martine Gosselink, said…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 28, 2022

For West Loop foundry, artist painted a mural of a fiery gator

Christian Stanley did the mural in the 1500 block of West Hubbard Street in August as part of the yearly Titan Walls arts festival.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 28, 2022

Taoiseach in TikTok spat with Dublin artist as Micheal Martin forced to delete video

Dublin graffiti artist Asbestos took to social media to express his anger and frustration that Micheal Martin had used an image of his 'What is Home?' mural on his TikTok account

Dublin Live · Oct 28, 2022

Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years

Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2022

‘Why not just go the full Vegas?’ The crass, ad-laden reinvention of central London

There’s a new theatre, four live venues, ‘walk-in’ billboards, and a hotel for Hollywood A-listers with subwoofers en suite. So why is this West End development about as exciting as a 1980s business park?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2022

A beheaded monarch, subversive ceramics and oil drilling in Gateshead – the week in art

Celebrate Halloween with an executed King Charles, clay like you’ve never seen it and a taste of Kurdistan in Tyneside – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2022

County Durham town to light up to explore wonder of Salvador Dalí

Dalí: Surreal Worlds will take over the town centre on Friday night after the arrival of the artist's masterpiece Christ of Saint John of the Cross in Bishop Auckland

Chronicle Live · Oct 28, 2022

Review: Picasso season arrives in LA with two smashing museum shows

LOS ANGELES — It's Picasso season in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 28, 2022

Indian sand artist responds after unique Sunak portrait confused with Tony Blair: ‘I was shocked’

Guinness World Record holder says Sunak’s mother-in-law supported him when he was struggling

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022