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Japanese get trained in 'Hollywood' smiles as masks slowly come off

In one of Keiko Kawano's recent classes, more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their mouths upward with their fingers: they were practising how to smile.

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BACC marks a century of Silpa Bhirasri

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the arrival in Siam of Corrado Feroci, or Ajarn Silpa Bhirasri, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is hosting "Art-Thai-Time" at its Main Exhibition Gallery, on the 8th floor, until Aug 20.

Bangkok Post

Rembrandt: True to Life exhibition – a thoughtful celebration of the Dutch old master

With impressive etchings, bucolic landscapes and a recreation of the artist’s Kunstkammer, this National Gallery of Victoria show presents a lyrical, cyclical way of thinking about art

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Tomás Saraceno: Web(s) of Life; Tate Britain rehang review – a five-star show that’s all generosity, and a reckoning with history

The Argentinian artist’s captivating work is at once an urgent call to action and irresistibly optimistic. At Tate Britain, a long-awaited rehang dazzles – and sometimes dismays

The Guardian - UK

Larry Sultan’s painterly photographs of swimmers

Partly to confront his own primal fear of the water, the Californian photographer spent years capturing the sometimes ungainly, sometimes balletic dance of humans learning to swim

The Guardian - UK

Fighting escalates in Sudan's capital after ceasefire expires

Fighting intensified in several areas of Khartoum on Sunday after a ceasefire deal expired, residents of Sudan's capital reported, and activists said a new outburst of violence in North Darfur state had left at least 40 people dead.

Reuters

Milanese does it: an eastern-inspired oasis in the Italian design capital

This 1920s apartment in the heart of Milan has been given a dramatic makeover

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Oscar Murillo: ‘I work on canvases for years. It’s like making really good wines’

The artist on lockdown back in Colombia, sharing the Turner prize, and his new political hero

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Glasgow, Bible John, evil and our enduring fascination with murderers among us

WE begin, fittingly, with an exhumation. A cold February in 1996, Stonehouse, Lanarkshire. A white plastic tent sits amongst the graves; you can…

The National (Scotland)

Tiananmen massacre museum opens in New York despite fear of Beijing backlash

Communist party has campaigned for decades to eradicate remembrance events for the 4 June clashes in Beijing

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What draws US tourists to Slovenia? Surely not the ill-fated Venus de Melania

The arson of a wooden statue of the former first lady has been seen as symbolic. My Slovenian hosts think differently

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UK seaside community unites to restore vandalised statue of Black woman

When the sculpture in Bexhill was spray-painted white, its artist invited locals to help repair it in a powerful gesture against racism

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Punks then and now: Midlands rebels carry the movement nearly 50 years on

‘Punk: Rage and Revolution’ brings the 1970s back to life in Leicester

The Independent UK

Svenskt Tenn gets a summer makeover courtesy of Margherita Missoni

At Svenskt Tenn, Margherita Missoni curates 'A postcard from Italy,' a summer takeover of the Stockholm gallery (until 27 August 2023), as well as special edition pieces

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A show on British cooling towers explores these sculptural giants

'British Cooling Towers - Sculptural Giants' is a new exhibition created by Twentieth Century Society (C20 Society) and Margaret Howell, presented during the London Festival of Architecture 2023

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Victorian artist paints 200 types of fungi found near Ballarat but needs help identifying some

Rosalind Lawson says sometimes she felt someone guided her to a certain place, and then suddenly there'd be a fungus that she'd never seen before.

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Euphoria review – Cate Blanchett voices a tiger in this visually beautiful takedown of capitalism, but where’s the fury?

Melbourne town hall, Rising festivalJulian Rosefeldt’s magnificent and exhausting film, starring the Oscar winner and Giancarlo Esposito, reverts to evasive surrealist flourishes just as it threatens to become truly angry

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Village bin man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany

One of Italy's most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month - Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in Tuscany thanks in part to the intuition of a retired garbage man.

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Police are not the answer for helping people in mental health crisis

The national 988 crisis hotline was supposed to divert calls away from 911, but too often, law enforcement is still the default response.

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Ilya Kabakov obituary

Artist whose installations drew on the everyday aesthetics of his first 50 years in the Soviet Union

Chicago Sun-Times

A car crashed into a wall in Lyons, and that’s how this mural got its ‘phoenix rising’

In Penny Burns’ mural, though, the mythical bird isn’t rising from the ashes. It’s rising from the nearby Des Plaines River.

The Independent UK

Festival at Greece’s ancient theaters dedicated to Maria Callas and century since her birth

Greece has launched its main summer theater and arts festival, dedicated this year to opera great Maria Callas who was born 100 years ago

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Lucy Letby denies ‘getting a thrill’ from alleged baby murders

Prosecutor reminds jury that Child I’s mother recalls nurse ‘smiling’ moments after baby’s death

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A walk-in wedding cake, Kiefer’s impossible task and a Bloomsbury master – the week in art

Visionary Joana Vasconcelos has cooked a giant gateau, Anselm Kiefer is taking on Finnegans Wake and Stephen Tomlin has finally found the spotlight

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Lanarkshire apprentice brushes up on significant skills at Painting and Decorating Association grand final

Hope Phillips, 18, a student at the Bell Apprentice Training Centre in Airdrie, previously achieved the top score in the junior category in a regional heat.

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