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Australian Indigenous art takes centre stage as Tate Modern, Sotheby's embrace First Nations creations

From blockbuster exhibitions in London and Singapore to galleries in New York and Paris selling works for eye-watering prices, the global demand for Indigenous art seems insatiable and is inspiring a growing number of First Nations artists.

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Must-see art from Senegal's Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards

Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year's festival is "Ĩ Ndaffa" — meaning "out of the fire," as artists forge bold visions of the world.

WEKU

Jeff Koons sculpture expected to raise millions for Ukraine humanitarian effort

The magenta sculpture will be exhibited in St James’s Square in London from June 14.

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Antony Gormley ‘a proud British citizen’ despite German passport application

The acclaimed British sculptor holds dual nationality due to his mother being German.

The Independent UK

Seven queens star in Sotheby’s show of power, prestige and pearls

Exhibition brings together portraits, many held in private collections, of queens from Tudor times onwards

The Guardian - UK

Antony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit

Acclaimed sculptor calls leaving the EU ‘a practical disaster’ and a ‘betrayal’ as major retrospective opens

The Guardian - UK

Picasso, Monet and Cézanne lead the way in $400m New York art auction

Ten works sell for more than $10m each in sale featuring giants of art, also including Gauguin and Magritte

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Monet’s Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute sells at Sotheby’s for record £45m

The piece has joined a series of Monet masterworks that have sold for more than £40.1m in consecutive New York sales at Sotheby’s

The Independent UK

Venice Biennale 2022: Marco Fusinato takes over Australia Pavilion with 200 days of guitar performance and spectacle

Marco Fusinato's installation DESASTRES at the Venice Biennale has been described as "powerful [and] hypnotic" and one of the best national pavilions at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition.

ABC News

Portrait of Skywhale artist Patricia Piccinini in the running to win 2022 Archibald Prize

The winner of the prestigious prize will be announced on Friday by the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney

The Canberra Times

At the Venice Biennale, Art Begins to Leave Identity Politics Behind

The much-anticipated, Covid-delayed global showcase sees artists firmly moving away from figuration and toward a new end: the message.

Businessweek

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s art collection and personal items up for auction

Among the late supreme court justice’s items up for sale are a mink coat, ceramics by Picasso and sculptures by Glenna Goodacre

The Guardian - US

Venice in Vantablack: Anish Kapoor’s disappearing act

The artist learned of the technology that absorbs nearly all visible light in the Guardian. As two shows featuring it open, he talks of a ‘stupid’ spat, his new foundation and dismay with England

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei on the new Silk Road: ‘This is China’s counterattack in a global game of chess’

China is pouring trillions into the developing world. It is, the artist and activist says, an audacious power grab

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David Hockney self-portrait installed at museum ahead of new exhibition

A series of drawings, paintings and digital works by the Bradford-born artist will be displayed at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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Jeff Koons’ comic-inspired BMW is one of the best cars you’ll ever see

Art on wheels.

France 24

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Western boycott of Beijing Olympics is 'a joke'

He is the most famous Chinese dissident and one of the best-known contemporary artists in the world. Ai Weiwei was harassed by the Chinese authorities, who bulldozed his Shanghai studio, sent him to jail without charge and drove him out of his country. After the February 2 publication of the…

The Guardian - UK

Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art

The British Museum introduces Europe’s earliest ancestors, the activist artist sits his work next to Chinese antiquities and LGBT+ history month begins with the deep human past – all in your weekly dispatch

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Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt review – so dull and sentimental it’s offensive

The iconoclast’s opposition to the Chinese state has been admirably brave. But this edgeless, confused and mawkish show suggests his art is less so

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei: ‘I am like a cat. Cats can play for a whole day’

As his new show opens in Cambridge, the artist reflects on his interest in fakes, why he’d love to go home, and the fate of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai

The Independent UK

Exiled artist Ai Weiwei reflects on Beijing Olympics

The artist Ai Weiwei helped design the Bird's Nest for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Sir Anish Kapoor takes aim at ‘criminal’ assault on arts

SIR Anish Kapoor has launched a broadside at “the assault on the arts in the school curriculum”, claiming it is “nothing short of criminal”. “This drift to small-nation, small-minded nationalism… is reminiscent of fascistic governments of recent times who attempted to control our imagined inner selves,” he argues.

The Guardian - UK

From Olafur Eliasson to Gerhard Richter: the art show aiming to unite Europe

Diversity United is a travelling exhibition featuring work by 100 living artists from 34 countries – seeing this monument to liberal values moved our writer to tears

The Guardian - UK

Anish Kapoor on vaginas, recovering from breakdown and his violent new work: ‘Freud would have a field day’

Why has the artist painted scenes of bloodletting, decapitation and a woman with 10,000 breasts? He’s scared to talk about it – but he can explain his fascination with vaginas and the world’s blackest black

The Independent UK

Anish Kapoor: ‘The government is damn dangerous and a bunch of f***ing liars’

Ahead of a new retrospective, the globally famous British artist talks to Sarah Crompton about art-world capitalism, Emma Raducanu, and whether Tory attempts to control universities, museums and the BBC is a warning sign of neo-fascism

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