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14-year-old Australian artist turns scrap tools into animal sculptures worth $8K

In a workshop filled with discarded tools, broken machinery and pieces of scrap metal, 14-year-old Charlie Guiver has found the raw materials for an unusual artistic career. The Dunsborough teenager turns unwanted objects into detailed animal sculptures, including a large wolf that recently sold for $8,000, according to an online…

The Times of India · Sep 23

‘Sometimes I do cruel things – and it’s worth it’: the fabulous shameless art of the great Sophie Calle

The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23

Magritte: This Is Still Not a Pipe review – brilliance and trash from the surrealist who sent up Freud

With his clever conundrums, the Belgian loved satirising both psychoanalysis and surrealism – and occasionally painted rubbish to annoy his family. What a dude!

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22

Florida artist spent decades creating a strange property; family brings back its Halloween tradition

Florida artist Lewis VanDercar spent decades transforming his Wesley Chapel property into a world of sculptures, unusual buildings and gardens. Known as the “Warlock of Wesley Chapel”, he also hosted Halloween celebrations for local children. Now, his family is opening the property for its first public Halloween Spookfest on October…

The Times of India · Sep 22

‘To sleep in a sculpture is a wonderful idea’: a hike along Andy Goldsworthy’s epic art trail in Haute-Provence

A long-distance walking route in the south of France devised by the celebrated land artist offers intrepid hikers an opportunity to immerse themselves in nature and art

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22

Pink Remains Unicef Ambassador as Petition Seeking Her Removal Passes 150,000 Signatures

Pink UNICEF petition explained: discover why the UN's past ruling that its celebrity ambassadors may speak their own minds leaves the campaign against the singer unlikely to succeed.

International Business Times UK · Sep 22

Bayeux Tapestry craze prompts photo ban at British Museum

The British Museum said on Monday that it has banned people from taking photos of the Bayeux Tapestry to prevent crowds from backing up at the new exhibit. The 1,000-year-old artwork is on display in the UK after an unprecedented loan from France, and tickets are sold out until December…

France 24 · Sep 21

Ontario couple’s C$200 yard-sale find, an E J Hughes painting, sells for C$402,500

An Ontario couple bought a landscape painting for C$200 at a rural yard sale in 2001, unaware it was by renowned Canadian artist E.J. Hughes. Six years later, Lake Okanagan was identified as his work and sold for C$402,500. Hughes, known for his detailed British Columbia landscapes, later saw his…

The Times of India · Sep 21

London will fall behind European rivals if tourists are charged to visit museums, ministers warned

‘We are at risk of falling back relative to the US and Europe,’ V&A director Sir Tristram Hunt warned

Evening Standard · Sep 21

‘Brown men are fearless, funny and sexy’: Salman Toor on clubbing, queerness and New York’s Muslim moment

Toor’s electrifying pictures have made him a global star – and he’s even painted Zohran Mamdani. As the artist hits London’s prestigious Courtauld Gallery, he talks about Manet, mullahs and the mayor

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21