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Khaled Sabsabi is finally at the Venice Biennale: ‘Being here is already a win’

Australia’s representative at the world’s biggest art show has not one but two works on show – a major achievement and happy ending to a year of controversy and protest

The Guardian - AU

An outsider artist takes the world's biggest stage with the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

U.S. artist Alma Allen had just months to prepare his exhibition for the Venice Biennale after a fraught selection process came down to the wire

The Independent UK

Camilla given fan from coronation portrait on visit to museum’s new exhibition

Camilla opened The Fan Museum’s new Monarchy exhibition in Greenwich as part of her role as its patron.

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‘A daring flash of pubic hair’: the extraordinary, monumental nudes of Sylvia Sleigh

A new show of this Welsh-born artist’s mesmerising portraits is worth visiting for one nude alone: a painting of an eyes-closed, long-legged, elegant brunette, inspired by Sleeping Venus

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a tiny bit of joy!’ How trinket swapping is making the world a happier place, one china sheep at a time

What’s so life-affirming about collecting and trading miniature animals, keyrings, stickers and pins? We visit one of the 1,500 trinket exchanges to find out

The Guardian - UK

How one German artist's remembrance stones turn Berlin sidewalks into Holocaust memorials

German artist Gunter Demnig has installed small Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin for 30 years

The Independent UK

'Forgotten dreams': Aussie artist dazzles at Venice

After much fanfare and controversy, crowds are marvelling at Khaled Sabsabi's work in Venice as he brings western Sydney's diversity to life on a world stage.

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Pussy Riot protest at Venice Biennale forces Russian pavilion to briefly close

Demonstrators, angered by Russia’s inclusion at arts festival, shout ‘Curated by Putin, dead bodies included’

The Guardian - UK

From Eurovision to the Venice Biennale, culture contests are being overshadowed by politics

The Venice Biennale, Eurovision and Cannes are framed as artists representing their nations. But in a fractured world national identity seems increasingly futile

The Guardian - UK

A ‘bird of Mexico City’ strikes a revolutionary pose: Pieter Henket’s best photograph

‘In Mexico, which has a strong macho culture, the lucha libre wrestling mask is a symbol of masculinity. Ixchel was taking that back’

The Guardian - UK

Pussy Riot stage protest blocking access to Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale

Members of punk group Pussy Riot and Ukraine's FEMEN organization have staged a protest at the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The Independent UK

"I had 3 years to make it": The high-stakes hustle behind a British photographer's LA breakthrough

From London monotony to American Photography Award winner, Nathalie Gordon now works with global brands.

Creative Bloq

Stitches in time: the artist chronicling the DRC’s blood-soaked history in embroidery

Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamuswekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo

The Guardian - UK

Klimt’s hidden masterpieces revealed in unique behind-the-scenes Vienna tour

Gustav Klimt's early works in Vienna are now accessible to the public for the first time

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Long road to Venice: Australia's entry finally on show

Australia's Venice Biennale entry is on display, more than a year after the artist and curator were ditched from the job, sparking a raging controversy.

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum

Objection after museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from list of countries of ancient Levant and Egypt and from some explanatory panels

The Guardian - UK

Stick a euro in the slot for the lights! The mesmerising, strictly Venetian works of Lydia Ourahmane

From the pier built for a former quarantine island to the sculpture made from 1.3 tonnes of hotel bedlinen, the British-Algerian’s coin-operated show feels like it has sprung from The Floating City itself

The Guardian - UK

Dark clouds, protests and resignations dampen start of 61st Venice Biennale

Russian pavilion to stay closed as outcry over Israel’s inclusion also grows – but nesting seagull provides some light relief

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The Independent UK

Venice Biennale previews in chaos after jury quits over Israel and Russia’s participation

The Venice Biennale has begun previewing its 61st edition only days after the art show's jury resigned in protest

The Independent UK

Paris museum confronts Nazi-looted art with new gallery for orphaned masterpieces

Paris’s Musée d’Orsay has opened a new gallery dedicated to lost masterpieces plundered by the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

Lubaina Himid’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale review – alienation in a green and pleasant land

Amid a calming soundtrack of lapping waves and cooing birds, workers in brightly coloured paintings share glances that say: ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ But isn’t there more to not belonging than this show suggests?

International Business Times UK

Activists Protest Jeff Bezos at 2026 Met Gala with Symbolic 'Urine' Bottles

Activists protested the 2026 Met Gala with urine bottles outside, criticising wealth inequality and corporate power, sparking a debate about the luxury event.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a special tree’: campaign to save mother of beloved bramley apple for nation

Appeal launched to buy Nottinghamshire cottage, where tree was planted in 19th century, and turn it into heritage centre

The Guardian - UK

‘I paint the kind of people I’m attracted to’: Hernan Bas on hiding from the world in Venice

The Cuban-American artist likes to paint pretty young white men – inspired by his fascination with Holden Caulfield. So why do his portraits have a sinister edge?

The Guardian - UK

‘We put our heads above the parapet’: Lubaina Himid on winning her 40-year battle to storm the Venice Biennale

In the 1980s, she had to show her work in a corridor by the ICA’s toilet. Now she’s representing Britain at the ‘art Olympics’. So is the artist feeling a bit establishment? Quite the reverse

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