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Top portrait artist Gerard Burns visit Castle Douglas

An exhibition of 30 of Gerard's original artworks is currently on display at The Artist @ Burford Antiques

Daily Record · Aug 8, 2022

Want to get more out of your art gallery visit? Start by looking at less

If you've ever staggered out of a gallery feeling exhausted and wondering what all the fuss is about, these simple tips will help make your next visit more fun and meaningful. For starters: don't try to see everything.

ABC News · Aug 7, 2022

London's Horniman Museum to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government.

Reuters · Aug 7, 2022

‘There’s a raw energy’: Hydra, artists’ haven, still casts its spell

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

He coaxes grandeur out of jaded paintings

S. Madhan, who restored 21 paintings of Raja Ravi Varma, calls the process a combo of art and science

The Hindu · Aug 7, 2022

Boom review – powerful, humane circus collaboration

Two young companies share acrobatic skills and stories, taking in Gen Z life and the impact of war

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

Street photographer makes Manchester Miniature in novel new project

Gisela has set up scenes with miniature models including such iconic places as Salfords Lads Club and The Hacienda.

Manchester Evening News · Aug 7, 2022

Photographer Fatimah Hossaini: ‘In Kabul, there was so much hope and desire’

The Afghan-Iranian artist narrowly escaped from Kabul to Paris last August, as the Taliban took over. She talks about the terror of that time, why she still longs for home, and her work photographing Afghan women in exile

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022

If These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak

“The Clamor of Ornament,” a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and weavings to tell a complicated story, one that spans five centuries, about cultural exchange and appropriation. The curators define ornament as “embellishment, surface or structural, that can be lifted from…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 7, 2022