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Why Malta is one of Europe’s greatest open-air history museums

Temples that predate the Pyramids, lavishly decorated cathedrals and hushed walled cities – Malta is a treasure chest of fascinating historical sights

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Italy's culture minister pledges to buy more artworks, as latest purchase shown in Rome

Italy's culture minister says he plans to increases purchases of major artworks, as the ministry unveiled a newly bought Antonello da Messina painting in the Senate

The Independent UK

The man who would become pope: Italy buys rare Caravaggio painting for €30 million

Italy has spent €30 million on a rare Caravaggio painting of a young man who went onto become Pope Urban VIII in a move to protect and strengthen its national cultural heritage and make art more accessible to scholars.

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Para skiers Johannes and Veronika keep adding to medal tally of the Aigner family at Milan Cortina

The Aigner family keeps stacking up their Para skiing medals

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Italy buys rare Caravaggio painting for €30 million, calling it ‘a work of exceptional importance’

The painting, dating from around 1598 depicts Maffeo Barberini, who later became Pope Urban VIII.

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Italy buys Caravaggio painting for 30 million euros, one of its largest payouts for a single work

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork

The Independent UK

Balenciaga channels ‘light through darkness’ of Euphoria in Paris show

Collaboration with HBO hit is gen Z mashup of glossy blacks and harsh neons, while Celine gives preppy added ‘bite’

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Catherine Opie: To Be Seen review – So fresh it’s hard to believe some of this work is 30 years old

4/5 In our increasingly divided world, the American photographers portraits of subcultures, from surfers to LA’s ‘leather dyke’ scene, exude a vital warmth and emotional generosity

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Unimportant monuments, a bass-player’s buildings and macabre Rego unleashed – the week in art

Artists turn from the heroic to the everyday, Paula Rego gives everyone a fright and a stealth wealth still life is subtly revealing – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Caravaggio review – articulate and intelligent portrait of the art titan’s life and work

This new addition to the Exhibition on Screen series features an alarmingly plausible-looking actor as the great man himself

The Guardian - UK

Colour, courage and cigarettes: David Hockney’s art of never slowing down

At 88, David Hockney is still reinventing the way we see. His new Mayfair show bursts with colour, wit and restless imagination – proof that age has done nothing to dim the artist’s curiosity or his joy in the world, writes Geordie Greig

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Giorgio Armani creations interplay with Italian masterpieces at new Milan exhibition

The Milan exhibition aims to create a dialogue between Giorgio Armani's sartorial creations and the artworks of luminaries such as Raphael and Caravaggio.

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Giorgio Armani's sartorial creations interplay with Italian masterpieces at Milan museum exhibition

Giorgio Armani's legacy is celebrated with an exhibition at the Brera Art Gallery in Milan

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Mystery, outback horror and a wandering protagonist propel Gail Jones’ The Name of the Sister

A side plot in one of Gail Jones’s most celebrated novels, The Death of Noah Glass (2018), involves a film-loving man who has recently lost his sight. Benjamin is desperate to enjoy thrillers again. He remembers watching, before his vision faded, the silhouette of James Bond, as iconic as a…

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Artist Caravaggio's faith shines in new Rome exhibit and at churches run by Pope Leo XIV's order

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio

The Guardian - UK

The best art and architecture of 2024

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

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€2 to illuminate a Caravaggio masterpiece is a small price to pay

Letter: The row over an entrance fee to Notre Dame reminds Mike Pender of a visit to Syracuse

The Independent UK

What is the Grand Tour and where are Rob and Rylan visiting?

The pair visited a trio of Italian cities while tracing the historic ‘gap year’ tour

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Treasures on tour, outsized orchids and liberated bottoms – the week in art

Monet’s masterpiece flees the National Gallery, Marc Quinn plants himself in Kew and the Tate honours female artists – all in your weekly dispatch

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Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour: where to watch, locations, hosts, interview, trailer and everything we know

Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour saw Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark explore stunning Italian cities and have candid conversations.

The Guardian - UK

Lost Caravaggio that almost sold for €1,500 to go on show at Prado in Madrid

Ecce Homo will be museum’s second Caravaggio, after being spotted on sale in Spanish capital in 2021

Evening Standard

The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery review: the final self-revelation of a troubled, violent genius

This being Caravaggio this show of two works is all about theatre in light and dark

The Guardian - UK

Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new

The Guardian - UK

From Back to Black to Blue Lights: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Sam Taylor-Johnson brings us her Amy Winehouse biopic, and the cracking Belfast police drama returns for a second series

The Guardian - UK

Who killed Caravaggio and why? His final paintings may hold the key

A killer himself, Caravaggio died at 38 – desperate, disfigured and on the run from the Knights of St John. His greatest works – with which he bargained for his life – cast light on one of art’s darkest mysteries

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