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Maggi meets Sarah, Anish Kapoor takes on Ice and Suffolk seduces Spencer – the week in art

Hambling and Lucas join forces, Roger Fry gets a rare show and an aerial daredevil captures stormy Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Artist who created Chicago’s ‘Bean’ sculpture laments his work being used in CBP photos: ‘I find it utterly horrific’

Anish Kapoor called the decision to pose outside of his iconic sculpture a ‘self-congratulatory photo-op’

The Independent UK

‘This is fascist America’: Anish Kapoor may sue after border agents pose by his sculpture

Artist says ‘military style’ raids in US are ‘beyond belief’ while discussing new Southbank show next year

The Guardian - UK

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Danny Boyle turns Southbank Centre into a playground for its 75th birthday

London’s cultural landmark goes full technicolour... and everyone is invited to the party

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle to curate celebration of youth culture at Southbank Centre

Goalhanger, the podcast production company co-founded by Gary Lineker, will record live editions at the site during the arts venue’s 2026 season.

Evening Standard

People are still saying there's a man trapped inside the Chicago bean

The perfect art conspiracy theory won't go away.

Creative Bloq

Climate activists spill 1,000 litres of fake blood over North Sea oil rig

Greenpeace activists scaled a Shell fossil fuel rig and unfurled a massive 96 square metre canvas across its side, drenching it in a crimson liquid on Wednesday, August 13.

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Greenpeace activists deploy huge Anish Kapoor artwork 'BUTCHERED' on North Sea gas platform

Anish Kapoor's 'BUTCHERED' is an original artwork created specifically for Greenpeace's protest action. It is believed to be the first fine art piece to be installed on an active fossil fuel platform.

Euronews

Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform

The Guardian - UK

Greenpeace installs Anish Kapoor artwork on Shell platform in North Sea

The piece, titled BUTCHERED, was conceived specially for the protest on the Skiff platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast.

The Independent UK

Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Evening Standard

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Anish Kapoor/Doris Salcedo | Reform party, Iceland | Helen Oxenbury | Mahzad Hojjat | Paris 15th arrondissement

The Guardian - UK

Call in Anish Kapoor for an HS2 monument

Letters: What to do on HS2 | Women who start war | Tory leadership race | The comfort of Corbyn | A Labour shakeup

The Guardian - UK

Slow down. Stay offline. Be bored

In time, restlessness gives way to new thinking, as artists from Anish Kapoor to Grayson Perry have attested

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Anish Kapoor at prayer and a giant pumpkin in the park – the week in art

A master of colour fills Liverpool Cathedral and Yayoi Kusama lands outdoors – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter

Exclusive: Lenny Henry, Anish Kapoor and Marianne Jean-Baptiste among those calling for Keir Starmer to scrap rules

The Guardian - UK

Anish Kapoor among artists featuring in youth vote billboard campaign

Exclusive: Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler also contributes drawing encouraging young people to vote

The Independent UK

Chicago’s iconic ‘Bean’ finally reopens to tourists

One of Chicago’s most popular tourist attractions is open again

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Shahla Karimi’s alternative engagement rings take a sculptural cue from Anish Kapoor

Shahla Karimi experiments with classic engagement ring design in the ‘Cloud’ collection

The Independent UK

‘Barbie pink’ season is here: A look at the cultural phenomenon behind the color

The release of “Barbie” is upon us, and the color pink is nearly inescapable

The Independent UK

From Barbie to millennial pink, the cultural phenomenon behind the color that sells

The release of “Barbie” is upon us, and the color pink is nearly inescapable

The Guardian - UK

Missed out on Vermeer? Try these arty gems across Europe instead

With the Amsterdam blockbuster all sold out, our writer picks 10 alternative arty must-sees in Europe – all reachable by train

The Guardian - UK

Future of Russian-owned Phillips auction house may be in ‘significant doubt’

Exclusive: Auditors have warned debt-burdened firm relies heavily on guarantees provided by owners

Chicago Sun-Times

NYC’s ‘Bean’ is roasted: Big Apple’s Cloud Gate doesn’t measure up

When it comes to pizza, cheesecake or hotdogs, Chicago has it over New York City. And now, who’s got the better Bean? We do.

The Independent UK

William Kentridge at Royal Academy review: Overstretched show doesn’t play to the artist’s strengths

A solo show in the RA’s Main Galleries is an honour – but one that doesn’t come without a degree of risk

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