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Extraordinary treasures of Egypt's Ramses the Great go on display in Paris

The sarcophagus of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II went on display in Paris on Friday in a rare international loan. It's the star attraction in a blockbuster new exhibition that features nearly 200 ancient artefacts, some of which have never before left Egypt.

Radio France Internationale

Ai Weiwei smashes it, Steve McQueen stuns and Brookside goes ceramic – the week in art

The Chinese activist artist demolishes his sculptures, the Turner-winner memorialises Grenfell and the 90s soap opera is immortalised in Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané saturates Kiasma in scent, light and uncanny geometry

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s survey exhibition ‘A Leaf Shapes the Eye’ turns the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland into an immersive multisensory environment, and confronts pertinent issues about our place on earth

Wallpaper

Late night contemporary arts festival announces ten events across Scottish city

A CONTEMPORARY art festival has announced ten major commissions for its first iteration outside London – in Dundee.

The National (Scotland)

Heartbreak as Side Gallery to close in Newcastle after more than 45 years as a film and photography hub

In a shock move, Side Gallery on Newcastle Quayside will shut its doors this weekend due to funding cuts and the cost of living crisis - but it has launched a fund-raiser with fingers crossed for better times to come

Chronicle Live

‘Paint’: Give Owen Wilson’s tedious take on Bob Ross the brush-off

Seeing his narcissistic artist interact with thinly drawn characters can be like watching Alizarin Crimson dry.

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Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close after funding cuts and energy bills rise

Photography space that inspired Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall launches fundraising campaign with aim of reopening in 2024

The Guardian - UK

Tapestry celebrating refuse collectors to go on show in National Portrait Gallery

Michael Armitage’s work will hang alongside high-profile figures in new gallery when NPG reopens in June

The Guardian - UK

India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection

File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies of conquest

The Guardian - UK

Picasso 50 years on: can art be separated from artist?

Exhibitions across Europe and beyond honouring Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death have triggered fresh debate about the Spanish artist’s treatment of women.

The Week

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum: “We’re building a society on greed and selfishness”

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’

Evening Standard

New mural to be unveiled celebrating history of Horsey Hill in Holyland

The Horsey Hill mural celebrates the history and heritage of the popular lane in South Belfast

Belfast Live

Document drawn up by King Charles II could fetch £600,000 at auction

One of only two surviving copies of the Declaration of Breda will be offered at Sotheby’s auction on May 4.

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Evening Standard

Pablo Picasso 50 years on: 10 things you need to know about the groundbreaking artist

This Saturday (April 8) marks 50 years since the death of perhaps the best-known figure in the art world: Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

Newslaundry

‘Divinity’, power, cliques: Kalakshetra case spotlights all that’s wrong with the ‘classical’ arts world

Chennai’s Kalakshetra Foundation, one of India’s foremost art institutions, is at the centre of serious allegations of long-term, nearly systematised sexual harassment against one of its professors. More allegations later emerged against other professors, leading to some suspensions and an arrest.

The Conversation

Moffat Takadiwa’s landmark exhibition uses found materials to comment on Zimbabwe's colonial hangover

Moffat Takadiwa is a Zimbabwean artist famous for creating work from found materials. His exhibition Vestiges of Colonialism, curated by Fadzai Muchemwa, opened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe on 16 March. This is the 40-year-old Takadiwa’s first solo show in Zimbabwe in a decade. Having exhibited around the globe,…

Los Angeles Times

An Calif. coffee shop wanted to foster public art. Neighbors say the mural is offensive

LOS ANGELES — It started as an idea to help foster more public art, after a few new murals in the Altadena, California, community were so well-received.

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‘Remarkable’ Egyptian Presence in Ramadaniyat Exhibition at Jeddah Art Atelier

The 14th edition of the Ramadaniyat Exhibition opened at the Jeddah Art Atelier, on April 3, with a remarkable Egyptian presence displaying over 60 works inspired by the spirit of Islamic civilization and arts, reflecting various intellectual views, and embodying the Islamic architecture and decorations.

Bristol Post

Wake the Tiger: The mind-altering Bristol attraction you need to visit over Easter

A surprising amount of locals and tourists still don't know Wake the Tiger exists

The Guardian - UK

Picasso pilgrimage: a Spanish art trail marking 50 years since his death

From Málaga to Madrid, there’s a fiesta of special exhibitions this year in the places where the artist lived and worked

Belfast Live

Forth Meadow greenway Irish signs decision 'called-in'

Unionism and Belfast Council criticised for causing stymie with the Irish language

The Guardian - UK

Lillian Mirmak obituary

Other lives: American-born civil rights campaigner who made London her home for more than 50 years

Belfast Live

Fermanagh family running marathon in memory of popular school caretaker

Maguiresbridge PS caretaker Eddie Fawcett passed away in May 2020

Liverpool Echo

Tiny garden where influential Scousers are laid to rest

The place was developed for quiet reflection

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