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Seed work was first practised by enslaved African women in Antigua and Barbuda. With few artisans left, efforts are under way to preserve it in a way that empowers younger generations

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

Yesterday I was in Brooklyn, I went to see my installation, Exorcism of the last painting I ever made, at the Faurschou Foundation.

The rap group “baptized me into hip-hop music and culture,” the artist says, with lyrics that helped instill in her “the spirit of activism and being able to question things.”

Ayroor Grama Panchayat in Pathanamthitta, renowned for its Kathakali legacy, is providing children a chance to learn the classical art form as part of their school routine. 200 children will receive free training on Kathakali mudras for six months, with four trained artistes appointed to lead the sessions. The local…

Hockney’s life and art, the crises of modern Myanmar, new works by Yinka Shonibare, and a celebration of the many worlds of fantasy

A collection of 7,000 works was discovered in Robert Martiensen’s South Australian farmhouse after his death in 2007, and is now on display

Talking to your husband might be the trickiest bit, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. It could help to find the fun in this together

Brass from the statue of the Confederate general will be used for a public art installation in Virginia city

Rare 18th-century sculpture may be sold to benefit local community

A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia