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Sculptor spent $100,000 making lifesize Charlie Kirk statue but has no takers

New York artist Sergio Furnari spent his own money on steel and resin monument to the slain Turning Point USA founder and had assumed he would be able to recoup the cost

The Independent UK

Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time

Manchester’s past as a centre of textile production forms the starting point of this seamless showcase of skills

The Guardian - UK

Archaeologist stunned to find remains of medieval castle hidden in corridor under Chester Crown Court

Researchers say Chester Castle defences have survived hundreds of years hidden inside newer construction

The Independent UK

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Nick Rodger: Golfing lessons for us all as we rake over coals of Birkdale Open

The National (Scotland)

$100,000 Life-Size Charlie Kirk Statue Falls Short of Sculptor's Million-Dollar Hopes

New York sculptor Sergio Furnari's £74,000 statue of Charlie Kirk faces financial struggles and personal setbacks, raising doubts about the project's success and potential curse.

International Business Times UK

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

The Guardian - US

Chinese woman declared dead and nearly cremated in 1995 was saved by a funeral home worker's last-second discovery; today, she is an award-winning artist

In 1995, a routine day at a funeral home in southern China took an extraordinary turn when a worker noticed that a young woman who had already been declared dead was still alive. Without any identification, no family beside her and barely any signs of life after collapsing days earlier,…

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A Ruhr treat: can a giant pigeon and a pink basketball revive Germany’s depressed industrial heartland?

The Manifesta biennale is taking over a dozen tiny churches in German towns ravaged by division and decline – and filling them with ball games, bouncy castles and a radical community spirit

The Guardian - UK

Pagad art festival returns to Chiang Rai

The second edition of Pagad Festival: Awakening Chiang Rai's Market Through Art returns to the northern province from July 24 until Aug 2 at Municipal Market 1 (Gad Luang) on Thanalai Road.

Bangkok Post

This artist created a ‘Southern American sumi-e’ art style using sumi and Diamine ink on Bristol vellum

After studying law, Will Thompson found his true passion in traditional ink drawing.

Creative Bloq

Admirers mourn tragic death of photographer, wife and 73 cats

"I am not a photographer, I am not an artist, I am just a man watching the world change," Anuchit Sundarakiti once said of himself on his Facebook page.

Bangkok Post

Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in U.S.

A famous Cuban dissident artist, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country

The Independent UK

The moment I knew: I thought he was a handsome, arrogant colleague – then the tension between us broke

At work, Alison Muir’s relationship with Peter Thorn veered between flirtation and hostility, until one day he stopped sidestepping his feelings

The Guardian - AU

Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara cleared to travel to US

Whereabouts of artist imprisoned after 2021 protests had been unknown following end of his prison term in July

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Public walls and personal opinions

A few strokes of spray paint were all it took to ignite a national conversation.

The Times of India

A rare bronze inspired by a 2,000-year-old masterpiece vanished for 150 years, then became the most expensive Neoclassical sculpture ever sold

A 19th-century bronze sculpture, the Hamilton Laocoön, sold for £13.6 million at Sotheby's. This price established a new record for a Neoclassical sculpture at auction. The bronze is a rare interpretation of an ancient Roman masterpiece unearthed in 1506. This significant work had not been available at auction for approximately…

Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: "A Cure Worse than the Disease: Why the EU's Proposal to Criminalize Hate Speech Violates Freedom of Expression—and Won't Reduce Intolerance or Extremism," by Jacob Mchangama & Natalie Alkiviadou

The article is here; the Introduction: In Germany, an artist and activist was arrested multiple times, once for wearing a… The post Journal of Free Speech Law: "A Cure Worse than the Disease: Why the EU's Proposal to Criminalize Hate Speech Violates Freedom of Expression—and Won't Reduce Intolerance or Extremism,"…

The Guardian - UK

Hockney’s Pop pals, Warhol’s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool – the week in art

David Hockney is shown alongside Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns and Helen Chadwick’s provocations have a wild Welsh setting

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George Osborne explains why Bayeux Tapestry won’t be hung on a wall in British Museum

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer is chairman of British Museum

The Guardian - UK

Uber driver who killed dog walker is also found guilty of trying to murder his landlord

Dawood Safi, 28, mounted a ‘frenzied’ and deadly rampage while in the grip of a psychotic episode

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350-Year-Old Letter Written By Possessed Nun Has Finally Been Decoded, Netizens Can’t Handle It

The mystery of the infamous "Devil letter" of 1676, written by a "possessed" nun, was finally solved. After 350 years, experts used the deep web to translate the 14-line text, which consisted of oddly different letters and symbols. Read through the story to uncover what it meant and what the…

The Guardian - UK

Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating

The Empire State building is caught in bed with the Chrysler Building and a milk bottle turns into a dragon in the sexed-up and cheekily provocative work of the Dutch artist and architect

The Guardian - UK

Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory: the bitter truth behind the Freia frieze

New exhibition in Oslo connects artist’s 1922 public work with the history of cocoa, the labour movement and women’s emancipation

Bangkok Post

The master of monsters

Thai-Hong Kong artist, Varagun "Andy" Chongthanapipat, better known as MrKreme, is renowned for his monster characters Rosado, Mushkin, Corkin, Gally and Odeys. His monster family, named Kooky World, has been marketed in many countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US.

Bangkok Post

Bring your dog to 'Wednesday: All Over The Place' at RCB

Art lovers and their four-legged darlings can enjoy a rare exhibition together at "Wednesday: All Over The Place", which is running daily from 10am to 8pm until Sept 6 at RCB Galleria 2, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24.

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