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Westminster Council reveals plans for new Banksy flag statue after it appears in London

The elusive artist unveiled new sculpture in central London earlier this week

The Independent UK

TV tonight: fun mockumentary St Denis Medical returns

Season two of the Oregon hospital series starts with the launch of a birthing centre. Plus, Bill Bailey’s moving portraits series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work

The Guardian - UK

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Venice Biennale jury quits amid row over participation of Russia

Decision follows backlash from Italian government and European Commission

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‘In every slurp of paint, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude

The Guardian - UK

Georg Baselitz obituary

Painter and sculptor whose raw, expressive works reflected on postwar Germany and courted controversy over his 60-year career

The Guardian - UK

Banksy confirms he is behind new central London statue after furious debate

The new sculpture shows a man, potentially a politician, walking off a plinth while carrying a flag that appears to be blowing in his face

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New York officials return more than 650 antiquities valued at $14m to India

Move comes after mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke of return of the Koh-i-noor diamond after UK royals’ visit to New York

The Guardian - US

Banksy signature appears on mysterious new London statue

Enigmatic artist has claimed ownership of the sculpture on his official Instagram page

The Independent UK

Banksy claims new statue in central London

The sculpture has been installed on a plinth on Waterloo Place.

Evening Standard

Collection including masterpieces by Klimt and Schiele to fetch ‘up to £150m’ at auction

Collection comes from Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne, whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur

The Independent UK

Banksy confirms statue of man blinded by flag in London is his work

Artist posted social media video showing large sculpture being towed into Waterloo Place in middle of night

The Guardian - UK

Nancy Holt review – cosmic thrills as the universe’s hidden power is unleashed

The late great land artist’s alfresco metal and concrete works are richly engaging and elemental – but the gallery material indoors lacks some heft

The Guardian - UK

Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction

Sotheby’s said collection of billionaire Spurs’ owner Joe Lewis and daughter Vivienne expected to fetch more than £150m in June sale

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‘Sensitive, sexy and surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie festival

Highlights of this year’s international photography festival in Kyoto include Linder Sterling’s exclamatory collages, a retrospective of groundbreaking Daido Moriyama and a journey though apartheid South Africa with Ernest Cole

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This artist takes the cyberpunk aesthetic to the east

Environmental concept artist Max Bedulenko searches for new syntheses inspired by different countries and cultures.

The Guardian - UK

Jarvis Cocker and Kim Sion to curate art exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield

Musician and his wife, a creative consultant, hope the Hodge Podge can expand ideas of creativity and community

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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 - AU

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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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