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Hang Freddie Freeman’s Swing in the Louvre (or the Hall of Fame)

Freeman’s one-of-a-kind hitting motion will one day earn him a bust in Cooperstown, and will likely win the Dodgers the 2024 World Series. Even his teammates aren’t sure how he does it.

Sports Illustrated

Soup protest at Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 'work of art', say artists

Judge told the two Just Stop Oil activists they should prepare for a prison sentence

Evening Standard

Hannah Fry on creativity and the psychological state shared by every genius from Jackson Pollock to Eminem

Artists throughout the ages have used similar language to explain how they experience the creative process – now studies have confirmed the ‘flow state’ is real

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Ed Clark review – so ordinary he could almost be British

Pity the poor sunbathers who wander from the beach into this weak and confusing show that proves not all abstract art is worth seeing

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Crime Ring: The Story of the Sports World’s Most Infamous Thief

Tommy Trotta Jr. was a career small-time criminal who made the jump to the big leagues by stealing sports memorabilia. What his crew did with their haul was just as audacious as the thefts.

Sports Illustrated

Oscar Murillo: The Flooded Garden review – my inner Pollock could not be contained

Is it love or just a summer fling? Oscar Murillo has invited viewers to add their own paint to his canvas – but I wouldn’t be tempted. Would I?

The Guardian - UK

One vision, 4000 artists and a country transformed: why the next British PM must copy Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s New Deal gave artists like Alice Neel and Lee Krasner a lifeline during a time of crisis – and it changed the face of America. Whoever wins the UK election should take heed

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Best abstract art: originals and prints to heighten your home

Gestural pieces that offer an escape from reality

Evening Standard

The week in audio: The Archers; Today; Death of an Artist; Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin – review

There’s been high drama in Ambridge and a great start for Today’s new presenter. Plus, a delightful Lee Krasner documentary and an amusing study of unfinished art

The Guardian - UK

Renowned painter and pioneer of minimalism Frank Stella dies at 87

Frank Stella was one of America's leading minimalist artists and a pioneer of the minimalist movement of the early 1960s. The movement challenged the idea that art was meant to be representative.

WEKU

‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

The Guardian - UK

Janet Sobel's Abstract Expressionist Legacy Rediscovered At Menil Collection

Explore Janet Sobel's overlooked contributions to Abstract Expressionism at the Menil Collection's 'All-Over' exhibition in Houston.

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10 Most Expensive Paintings: Brushstrokes Of Value

In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators.

International Business Times

Jackson Pollock? No, this art was made by a car

It's mudern art, darling.

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Venezuelan artist paints his way to Chicago: ‘I never dreamed I would do that’

Wilfredo Garcia, a self-taught painter from the Venezuelan countryside, paid in murals for his trip across several countries, leaving traces of the spirit of the Venezuelan heartland all along the way.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Oregon’s eggshell uniforms vs. Washington led to some heated reviews and a lot of jokes

Are these *that* bad?

The Conversation

Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'

American painter Philip Guston’s (1913-1980) work was filled with creative innovation. But the paintings he is best known for are the series of cartoonish hooded figures begun in the late 1960s.

The Guardian - UK

‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking in our midst

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For Pilsen body shop mural, artist drew on the work of Jackson Pollock and Shel Silverstein

Joliet artist Matthew Jesiolowski says he was inspired by the “chaos” of Pollock’s artwork and the line work in Silverstein’s illustrations.

The Independent UK

Arrests made in thefts of Yogi Berra's World Series rings, Warhol and Pollock art

Federal authorities have announced charges against nine people for thefts of millions of dollars worth of paintings, sports memorabilia and other valuables over more than two decades

The Guardian - UK

Derek Culley obituary

Other lives: Artist whose first studio was a garage, and who curated exhibitions for emerging artists including the young Damien Hirst

The Guardian - UK

Breakin’ Convention; Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Vortex review – sheer pleasure and virtuosity

Breakin’ Convention celebrate 20 years of dazzling virtuosity, while one of the UK’s most thoughtful choreographers shines a new light on Jackson Pollock

The Guardian - UK

Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Vortex review – Jackson Pollock in pure motion

Abstracted figures moving at a mesmerically measured pace recreate the US artist’s painting technique

The Guardian - UK

Why do we still define female artists as wives, friends and muses?

Even in shows devoted to female artists, they are often associated with the men they knew – but as a look in any gallery will reveal, it never happens the other way round

The Guardian - UK

Different strokes: the forgotten women of abstract expressionism

A new exhibition highlights 80 unsung female artists from the grouping that made stars of Rothko and Pollock. But does adding them to the canon deflect from the sexism that stymied their careers?

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