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Artist Turns Iran Fountains Red to Reflect Bloody Crackdown

Fountains in Tehran appeared to be pouring blood Friday after an artist turned their waters red to reflect a deadly crackdown amid weeks of protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman's death was announced on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Act of cowardice’: Mural of Marge Simpson chopping off hair in solidarity with Iran protests removed

‘We will not be intimidated by this despicable gesture,’ street artist says

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon triptych could sell for more than £30m at auction debut

The work is being previewed at Sotheby’s in London.

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Seven reasons to smile on World Smile Day

What better way to celebrate World Smile Day than to share some uplifting news stories?

Evening Standard

Pink Diamond Breaks Auction Record in Hong Kong

A pink diamond was sold for $49.9 million in Hong Kong on Friday, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star diamond, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, sold for $392 million Hong Kong dollars ($49.9 million). It…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag review – memory maps and rumours of djinns from mystical Sudanese painter

Inspired by William Blake and Francis Bacon, Ishag traces winding webs of families and friendships with depictions of plants, neighbourhoods and – her main subject – women

The Guardian - UK

In Uptown mural, artist Anthony Lewellen combines a love of nature and ‘concrete and light poles’

The six-story mural at 844 W. Montrose Ave. aims to show ‘an overlap between nature and the urban environment . . . these two things that I feel like I’m kind of always wrestling with.’

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Brian Catling obituary

Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’

The Guardian - UK

Pink diamond breaks auction record in Hong Kong

A pink diamond has been sold for $49.9 million in Hong Kong, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction

The Independent UK

Billy Connolly covered for shipyard pals skiving off work in Glasgow by 'making welding noises'

The Big Yin has shared a priceless memory of working as an apprentice welder - and the tea boy - while his fellow shipyard workers went off to play illicit games of cards.

Glasgow Live

Countess sues art dealer after £1m family painting re-sold for millions more

The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite.

The Independent UK

50 years of horror: Twisted new exhibition in time for Halloween

Work is featured from artists such as Noel Fielding, Spitting Image, Pam Hogg and many more

Wales Online

Meet One Of The Last Blacksmiths In Israel

One of about eight blacksmiths in Israel, uses tools and techniques that have been utilized for many centuries.

Zenger

Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel review – vivacious paintings of liberated Iranian womanhood

As protests against head coverings once again shake Iran, there is a disturbing deja vu to discovering what was done to many of these defiant women

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Move over Brits: Danish royals in crisis after decision to strip titles

Evening Standard

Frieze for free? The best art fair exhibitions to see at London’s galleries

Cheat the system and enjoy some of the world’s great art, for nothing

Wales Online

Pilot creates world's largest portrait of The Queen on 256-mile flight

It's 65 miles tall and 39 miles wide

The Guardian - UK

The Centre for the Less Good Idea: To What End review – sketches from South Africa

There are good ideas in this collection of pieces from William Kentridge’s experimental performance studio but they lack depth and development

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‘A crazy story’: how a Chinese vase valued at €2,000 sold for €8m

French auction house tells of build-up to bidding war that led to an expert losing his job and a seller being left ‘traumatised’

Wales Online

Celebs at red carpet launch for new interactive art attraction

Lewis Capaldi, Simon Le Bon, Andy Serkis and Lady Victoria Hervey were among the stars

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Whiteread Covid print to feature in Government Art Collection

Untitled (Bubble) reflects microscopic form of Covid and will be displayed in government offices in UK and abroad

The Guardian - UK

Artist of ‘loneliness’ Edward Hopper depended on his wife, says film-maker

Role of Josephine Nivison Hopper in US realist’s work has been overlooked, says director of forthcoming documentary about them

The Independent UK

Pilot creates world’s largest portrait of Queen on two-hour flight for charity

Amal Larhlid flew a Piper PA-28 in the outline of Elizabeth II wearing a crown.

Bangkok Post

Tehran fountains dyed red to protest crackdown

Fountains in Tehran appeared to be pouring blood on Friday after an artist turned their waters red to reflect a deadly crackdown amid weeks of protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

The Guardian - UK

The Turbine Hall is back, Cerith Wyn Evans goes home and an Egyptian stone speaks – the week in art

Radical Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña takes over the Turbine, an international star returns to his Welsh roots and The British Museum unlocks hieroglyphic secrets

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