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Hamlet 'double portrait' wins Archibald packers' prize

Sean Layh has pocketed a time-honoured art award, with the subject of his innovative prize-winning portrait both real and fictional.

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Simply divine: the extraordinary supernatural visions of Francisco de Zurbarán

He painted sea battles, the labours of Hercules and breathtaking still lifes. But, as a major new exhibition makes clear, it was in his thrilling depictions of the spiritual that the Spanish master showed his true genius

The Guardian - UK

US father and daughter admit selling fake Picasso and Banksy works, duping art world

Pair apologise in court after being accused of defrauding buyers including some of New York’s most prominent fine art auction houses

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New York art fraud father-daughter team guilty of a million-dollar forgery scheme

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Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discreetly in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

The Guardian - UK

‘Still lots to talk about’: UK galleries team up to shine light on female artists

Tracey Emin among creators on show at Making Her Mark, a project by Penzance, Worcester and Kirkcaldy galleries

The Guardian - UK

Concrete sun tunnels and shimmering pools of water: the monumental land art of Nancy Holt

Installed in deserts and along riverbanks, the late artist’s grand constructions underscored a fascination in the systems underpinning the Earth and the cosmos. Now she is receiving a first UK retrospective

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Zurbarán review – ecstatic visions, primitive surrealism … and the finest loincloths ever painted

The 17th-century Spanish master painted with a supernatural intensity that will hit you just as hard as it did his original viewers

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Young Palestinian artists in Gaza exhibit their impressions of war as a fragile ceasefire holds

Young Palestinian artists in Gaza have staged an impromptu exhibit to show the world the impact of war and fragile ceasefire

The Independent UK

Antiquities dealer who exposed thefts at British Museum dies aged 61

Ittai Gradel died of renal cancer days after museum awarded him medal for ‘very significant contribution’

The Guardian - UK

‘Street culture is about revolution’: Brazilian ‘hip-hop’ painter Paulo Nimer Pjota

The artist started with graffiti at 13 in São Paulo. Now, he samples motifs from mythology and his vast, fantastical paintings have taken over the walls of the South London Gallery

The Guardian - UK

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

The Guardian - UK

Victorian Society publishes list of most endangered buildings in England and Wales

Tees Transporter Bridge and a former working men’s club in Barrow-in-Furness among sites at risk of decay or neglect

The Guardian - UK

‘I was super horny when I made my early work’: Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of breasts and vaginas

Equally inspired by childbirth manuals, Georgia O’Keeffe and her own hormones, pregnancy and motherhood, Hollowell paints beautiful anatomical abstractions. She opens up about her cosmic birth and out-of-body experience

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London Museum accused of ripping off its 'pigeon and poo' logo from Manchester designers

The owners of May Wild Studio are considering legal action over the London Museum’s new logo, which they say bears a ‘striking resemblance’ to their design

The Guardian - UK

There will be mud! Could my child (and buggy) survive a day at a sculpture park?

Forget intimidating white spaces, forbidding barriers and draconian gallery rules – a great place for kids to experience art is outdoors (even if it might start raining)

The Guardian - UK

‘Tracey Emin said they’re all about death’: Johnnie Shand Kydd on his dog-walk photographs – and capturing the hard-partying YBAs

He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk

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Arts funding gap in the north must be closed

Letters: Christine Baranski and Sharon Maher make the case for investment in regions other than London

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The Independent UK

Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum

A former FBI agent is offering the first detailed account of how investigators identified who carried out the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist

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14 colour concepts every artist needs to know

These artistic colour techniques can help you guide the viewer and enhance your storytelling.

The Guardian - UK

Tate at a turning point: new director must confront unwieldy ‘beast’ of an art institution

As Maria Balshaw steps down after nine years, her successor at the gallery needs to forge a fresh financial and cultural path

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Paint spring foliage using a dry-brush watercolour technique

This step by step guide has you painting a spring scene in no time.

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Nazi-looted $10 million Stradivarius violin has turned up in France, says expert

Has a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War turned up in France? Pascale Bernheim, an expert on looted musical instruments, believes so.

The Independent UK

Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is embracing a statue it once kept at arm’s length

Evening Standard

Four in court over arson attack on Jewish community ambulances

The resulting blaze caused gas canisters inside the ambulances to explode in Golders Green, north London.

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