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Town rallies behind ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ after Iowa officials target him for public art

Locals made T-shirts for ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ and started a petition to drop the charges

The Independent UK

‘I can frustrate you, hypnotise you, bore you’: the Jarman prize winners making archives fly

Onyeka Igwe and Morgan Quaintance have jointly scooped the £10,000 prize for artists working with moving images. They talk about manipulating their audience – and correcting history

The Guardian - UK

‘When property owners have vision’: the artists bringing a derelict hotel back from the dead

A former sailors’ haunt has been reimagined by more than 40 creatives for the closing weekend of the Fremantle biennale

The Guardian - AU

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Doug Chiang reveals what it takes to make it as a Star Wars artist: "Focus on being better than who you were yesterday"

From Back to the Future Part II to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, what everyone needs to know to succeed in film art.

Creative Bloq

‘I tried to capture her inner world – but couldn’t’: Tom de Freston on painting his wife pregnant and nude

The artist and his wife, novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave, lost seven pregnancies before their daughter was born. They explain how his nude paintings of her helped them process their grief – and eventual joy

The Guardian - UK

Whiteley Byron Bay masterpiece under the hammer for $1m

A Brett Whiteley painting of the Byron Bay landscape has sold for $1 million - but will it end up on the walls of a Byron Bay rich-lister?

AAP

Richard Lloyd obituary

Other lives: Champion of the countryside with a joyous passion for nature

The Guardian - UK

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Frances McDormand on her adult-sized cradle art project: ‘It’s not performative, it’s experiential’

A Shakers-inspired exhibition has united the three-time Oscar winner and conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra

The Guardian - US

Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

JMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?

The Guardian - UK

Four more people arrested in connection with Louvre heist

French media say those held include alleged final member of four-person gang who broke into museum

The Guardian - UK

Accused breaks down in tears as jury sworn in for Liverpool parade crash trial

Paul Doyle, 54, is charged with 31 offences.

Evening Standard

Who was Caravaggio’s black-winged god of love? What this masterpiece reveals about the rogue genius

In three thrilling works by Caravaggio, the same boy’s face crops up. As one – the astonishing Victorious Cupid – arrives in Britain, we ask: who was this anarchic model and muse?

The Guardian - UK

This art is rubbish: why artists meticulously recreate our trash – so well they even confuse cleaners

Resin fruit peel, bronze bin bags and marble loo rolls are among the items of detritus being immortalised by artists – and fetching a high price

The Guardian - AU

Mural on side of north London library to stay despite 'ghastly eyesore' complaints from locals

Hundreds complained about the artwork that Enfield Council had not sought permission for

Evening Standard

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Radio France Internationale

A stitch in time: the Ghanaian artist sewing trash into treasure

A civil engineer by trade and an artist at heart, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku has found an innovative way to raise awareness about the problem of textile waste in his native Ghana. His ever-expanding installations are stitched together from hundreds of pieces of used clothing, collected from cities around the world…

The Guardian - UK

London exhibition to explore mental health and social bonds in ‘polarised’ times

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital

Marie Claire

Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress Wax Figure Was Unveiled in Paris On a Very Meaningful Anniversary

The museum debuted the tribute on the 30-year anniversary of Diana's controversial 'Panorama' interview.

The Guardian - UK

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

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Woman & Home

For luxury with a touch of wintery warmth, plum nails are the rich look to request

As the cold sets in, luxe and moody shades of plum are calling us to the nail salon...

The Independent UK

Info to decipher secret message in Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters sells for close to $1M

The information needed to decipher a secret message in a sculpture at CIA headquarters has sold at auction for nearly $1 million

Evening Standard

Export bar placed on ‘beautiful’ Hindu paintings

The Devi Mahatmya – illustrating the tale of the Divine Mother of Hinduism – are valued at £280,000.

The Guardian - UK

‘People once threw food at modern art!’ Turner-winning sculptor Tony Cragg’s amazing journey to success

He may now live in Germany, but he loves returning to Britain, not just to put on a show, but to enjoy the weather, the food, the humour – and the selfie-takers in galleries

The Guardian - UK

Cupid’s dazzling arrival, Bridget Riley’s rollercoaster and a duel of two masters – the week in art

Caravaggio’s masterpiece hits the UK, Margate goes dotty for Riley, and it’s paintbrushes at dawn for Turner and Constable

The Independent UK

Rare Frida Kahlo self-portrait breaks record for female artists after selling for £41.8m

‘El sueño (La cama)’ was unseen for three nearly decades

The Independent UK

Archaeologists finally lift lid on ancient sarcophagus hidden beneath capital city

During the Roman period, much of what is now Hungary formed the province of Pannonia

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