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Pope.L review – savage satire from Y-fronts-wearing trickster famed for gruelling ‘crawl’ across New York

The late American took on liberal presumptions and the commercialism of Black culture, even dressing in white bunny ears and underpants

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15

Japanese Artist Transforms Ordinary Stones Into Adorable Dogs With Incredible Detail (30 Pics)

These dogs look ready to curl up in your hand, but they're actually river stones, painted so realistically by Japanese artist Akie Nakata that her pieces have been known to sell out within a minute.

Bored Panda · Oct 15

Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi

The late Christoph Schlingensief was one of German art’s great provocateurs. Can his B-Movie horror aesthetics still shock us into thinking anew about media power, colonialism, and the far right?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15

New Yorker paid $3 for yard-sale bowl; ancient artefact later sold for $2.225m

A remarkable discovery unfolded in 2007 when a New Yorker purchased a small white bowl for merely three dollars during a yard sale. For years, this bowl was displayed proudly in their home until appraisers revealed its true worth: a rare 'Ding' ware from the Northern Song dynasty valued between…

The Times of India · Oct 14

‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world

Amid economic sanctions and ongoing conflict, a new initiative is returning Iran’s artists to the international spotlight

The Guardian - US · Oct 14

A dominatrix and her tightly bound client: Giada Ripa’s best photograph

‘Karen is a Japanese dominatrix and “rope artist” who ties up her clients in a way that echoes how samurai bound their prisoners. Clients are mostly men with high-pressure jobs’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14

Louvre boss warns of closure risk unless museum is 'repaired, updated and transformed'

The world's most-visited museum "will eventually have to close its doors to the public" unless the French state steps in to finance a major overhaul, Louvre director Christophe Leribault told Le Figaro on Wednesday, in the latest dire warning about the creaking institution hit by a string of scandals including…

France 24 · Oct 14

Wisconsin expert turns scrap metal into 300-ton Forevertron sculpture park marvel

Somewhere in rural Wisconsin, a Victorian inventor is preparing for his final journey into space. His spacecraft is unlike anything NASA would recognise, assembled from rusting industrial machinery, electrical equipment and discarded metal. Towering over a roadside sculpture park, this extraordinary creation is the work of a demolition expert whose…

The Times of India · Oct 14

25 Dreamlike Paintings By Sarah Lee That Offer A Fresh Take On The World Around Us

Some landscapes seem to hold more secrets than they reveal. In Sarah Lee’s paintings, familiar elements of the natural world take on an uncanny quality, with glowing moons, luminous skies, and quiet expanses of land and water that feel suspended somewhere between reality and imagination. Born in Seoul, South Korea,…

Bored Panda · Oct 14

New York art teacher’s thrift-store painting bought for under $100 sells for £189,200 after 60 years

A remarkable transformation has occurred for a painting acquired for under $100, which has now fetched an astonishing £189,200 due to its true provenance being uncovered. Hidden for decades within a family's home, the artwork, initially misattributed, is revealed to be the work of Scottish artist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.

The Times of India · Oct 14