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Mexican art historians weigh in on upcoming Kahlo's auction that could fetch up to $60 million

Frida Kahlo’s painting “El sueño (La cama)” is expected to fetch between $40 million and $60 million at auction, potentially making it the most expensive work by a female or Latin American artist

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Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row

Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forces

The Guardian - UK

Will this Frida Kahlo work fetch a record-breaking $60m at auction? Experts weigh in

Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) is being auctioned off by Sotheby’s

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Roll up, roll up for the all-new Olympia — ‘like Vegas without the sin’

The revamped west London site is just months from opening — complete with a new music venue, theatre, hotels, restaurants and bars. Jonathan Prynn gets a sneak preview

Evening Standard

Artist and explorer Tony Foster hopes his work moves people to protect planet

The 79-year old explorer is known for his extreme approach to creating large-scale watercolour paintings in the wilderness.

Evening Standard

Fighting From Home sculpture honours vital Second World War workers

The monument in the UK’s former capital of chainmaking is inspired by its creator’s grandfather’s work to help supply the Royal Navy.

Evening Standard

8 artists reflect on a decade of unexpected career turns and surprise opportunities

We asked artists how their careers have changed and what they’ve learned.

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Giant effigy of embattled PM Keir Starmer is set alight at Edenbridge bonfire celebrations

The 36-foot high effigy was torched as thousands gathered for the annual event in the town of Edenbridge on Saturday night

Evening Standard

Engage with the arts – and put your phone away

Letters: Ian Flintoff champions live performances and Val Mainwood argues that great art should challenge us. Plus a letter from Ross Speirs on snap-happy gallery visitors

The Guardian - UK

Colour, courage and cigarettes: David Hockney’s art of never slowing down

At 88, David Hockney is still reinventing the way we see. His new Mayfair show bursts with colour, wit and restless imagination – proof that age has done nothing to dim the artist’s curiosity or his joy in the world, writes Geordie Greig

The Independent UK

Highgate Cemetery gets dramatic redevelopment after grave owner backlash

Camden Council approved plans for an £18 million regeneration of the famous cemetery

Evening Standard

The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

It may be a midlife crisis, says the man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in a 100-year project in Somerset

The Guardian - UK

Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR

The Guardian - UK

Rosalía review, Lux: A masterpiece ruminating on mortality, lust, sainthood and idolatry – with a self-portrait underneath

5/5 Each song erupts from the former, constantly shifting and evolving in sound, on this truly phenomenal and ambitious work

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Who Is Rama Dawaji? Newly-Elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Gen-Z, Activist Wife

Rama Duwaji, a 28-year-old Syrian-American artist and the wife of newly elected New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, combines artistic practice and political solidarity while keeping a carefully private life.

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French auditors slam Louvre bosses over lavish spending, weak security

France’s top auditors sharply criticised Louvre Museum bosses on Thursday for spending millions of euros on high-profile exhibitions and expensive purchases instead of improving security and maintaining the historic building.

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris - review: still innovating, still fascinating

With this new collection of bright and bold still lifes, iPad experiments and splotchy portraits, the art-world titan is beginning to show his age in intriguing, unsteady ways that remain inimitably Hockney

The Guardian - US

‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective

The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation

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Evening Standard

Jury retires in trial of women alleged to have stalked Kate and Gerry McCann

Leicester Crown Court has heard four weeks of evidence about the allegedly ‘cruel’ behaviour of Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg.

International Business Times UK

Meet Rama Duwaji: 10 Photos of Zohran Mamdani's Wife, NYC's New Mayoral Partner

Rama Duwaji, the 28-year-old Syrian-American artist and wife of newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is stepping into the spotlight as the city's youngest-ever First Lady. Here's a closer look at her creative journey, activism, and growing influence.

The Independent UK

Louvre jewellery heist suspect faces trial in separate case

Lawyers say they expect the trial to be postponed as moving him is too complex

The Guardian - UK

‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z

The director wants London’s long-awaited institution to ignite creative passion in the Gen Z visitors it’s aimed at. As he unveils the building and its contents, can he pull it off?

The Guardian - US

Pennsylvania artist sorry for including Nazi camp arch on school parade float

‘I made a mistake,’ says artist who included cloned archway on Halloween float for a Catholic school

The Guardian - UK

The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly

New Art Exchange believes it is first cultural institution in world to hand permanent leadership to the community

Evening Standard

King’s artwork showing ‘deep connection to nature’ goes on sale for £3,500

The lithograph of Highgrove House, reproduced from the monarch’s original watercolour, shows the ‘serene beauty’ of the King’s Gloucestershire home.

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