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I’m sorry, dear Greeks, but the Elgin Marbles simply must stay here

Yesterday I made my way in the crisp morning sunshine to the British Museum to gaze at the utter magnificence of the Elgin Marbles, the future of which have become a thorny topic again. In December we heard it was likely they were returning to Greece, this week they are…

Evening Standard

Historic Hispanic masterpieces, freaky ceramics and London’s bloody rites – the week in art

A treasure trove of Spanish art is revealed, Antoni Tàpies’ raw modernism is on display and Aphra Shemza reboots the work of her grandfather

The Guardian - UK

Scramble to save London’s place in the art world after Brexit

Paris will soon replace London as the art capital of Europe, warns art fair founder

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An academic drama over false Islamophobia

While there have been many Hamline University faculty and students who have resisted substituting identity politics and theocracy for academic inquiry, the college appears to have an utterly spineless administration.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Embracing ‘The Embrace’: US cities including New York need more, not less, adventurous public art

The hammers are out for a Boston public artwork honoring Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Sure, “The Embrace” is untraditional. People are entitled to their opinions on this and any other sculpture. Art creates conversation, and public art, more so.

Tribune News Service

Artist asks British Museum to return Assyrian treasure to Iraq in swap

Sculptor Michael Rakowitz says he will give his fourth-plinth bull to Tate Modern if Iraq can share custody

The Guardian - UK

Court agrees with artist Peter Doig that ‘Pete Doige’ painting really isn’t his

An ex-prison guard claimed he owned a Doig original he bought for $100 and accused the artist of lying when he said he didn’t paint it

The Guardian - US

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Woman charged over McCubbin painting protest in Western Australia

Video released by activist group Disrupt Burrup Hub showed woman spraypainting Woodside logo on artwork at Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Guardian - AU

Woman charged over masterpiece attack

Police have charged a woman with criminal damage over an attack on an Australian masterpiece at the Art Gallery of WA.

AAP

‘It’s a strange moment we live in’: MLK sculptor on backlash to monument

The Embrace, a 19-ton bronze depicting Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King and a love that helped change the world, has inspired praise, jokes and bile

The Guardian - US

Watch as Jamie Lewis speaks about turning his love of art and crafts into a job in Dublin

Jamie Lewis is an artist who has been producing animals in his studio in Benburb Street, Dublin, for the last eight years.

Irish Mirror

New Liverpool show aims to raise awareness of gaslighting

LIPA student Raven Radha raises awareness from shared and personal experiences of how gaslighting in relationships can be overcome

Liverpool Echo

US director Peter Sellars on making art in epic times

His directorial talents embrace opera, theatre, dance, visual arts and film. As he brings Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" to the Opera Bastille in Paris, Peter Sellars tells us about the lessons the "total work of art" has to teach us about glimpsing beauty amid the madness. This latest production incorporates…

France 24

Two Belfast murals in running for worldwide street art award

Works by Belgian artist Kitsune Jolene and local legend Emic have made the global selection

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Commentary: Outrage over an image of Muhammad is itself Islamophobia

In the name of combating Islamophobia, Hamline University in Minnesota has committed a particularly egregious exercise in Islamophobia.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Whiteread calls for end to Trafalgar Square fourth plinth sculptures

Artist says programme needs ‘rethink’ amid evidence that sculptors cannot find permanent homes for their work

The Guardian - UK

What happened to Trafalgar Square’s previous fourth plinth statues?

While most of the artworks are in storage, some went on tour and some have found permanent homes

The Guardian - AU

Frederick McCubbin painting defaced with Woodside logo in protest at Art Gallery of Western Australia

Activists spraypaint logo on masterpiece and one glues her hand to gallery wall to protest desecration of Burrup peninsula rock art

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AAP

Activists attack McCubbin painting in WA

Activists protesting Woodside's alleged destruction of rock art in Western Australia's north have launched a faux attack on the painting Down On His Luck.

Pedestrian.tv

‘Dream Come True’: First Nations Artist Kylie Caldwell On Her Sell-Out Collab Range With Spell

Some styles sold out in just five minutes.

Al Jazeera

US professor sues university over Prophet Muhammad image row

University says it is reviewing actions after art professor’s contract not renewed amid student objection.

Zenger

Holocaust Documentary Asks Why Lithuania Honors Villains As Heroes

Grant Gochin had seen documentation of Jonas Noreika’s signature ordering the construction of a ghetto to confine Lithuanian Jews.

The Independent UK

Art professor sues after firing over Prophet Muhammad images

An adjunct art professor is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course

AAP

$2m price tag on govt graffiti program

A NSW government arts program that embraces graffiti has been praised by artists for embracing legitimate street painters and boosting the arts sector.

Bangkok Post

Moving art

Cosmic Vibration, a solo exhibition by kinetic artist Nicolas Panayotou and presented by Rosewood Bangkok in partnership with Mozart Advisory, is on view now to March 14.

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