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Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

The Guardian - UK

Caroline Calloway: ‘I am afraid that Cambridge will take my degree back — it would be a real blow to my ego’

The internet sensation scammed her way into the British academic institution — then built a career as an ‘It girl’ off her life there. With the publication of her searing new memoir, she tells Alexandra Jones why she’s leaving all artifice behind

Evening Standard

Shunned, boycotted, exiled: has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did?

When she walked out on Picasso, he destroyed her art and waged war on her career – while France cast her out. Now that this great painter has died, says the woman writing her biography, it is time for this shameful treatment to cease

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Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris review

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

The Week

What did the critics who trashed Georgia O’Keeffe have in common? See if you can guess

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?

The Guardian - UK

What modelling King Charles’s head taught me about very public portraits – and sovereignty itself

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m staying at Larry Gagosian’s place’ – Stanley Whitney’s long journey from rat-infested New York

His wobbly blocks of high-key colours, painted while listening to Miles Davis, have made Whitney America’s greatest Black abstract artist. As a new show opens in the UK, he relives his tough early days

The Guardian - UK

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Monet in Lego, modern art’s birth and Hockney’s bigger leash – the week in art

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Philly art museum staffers ratify first contract, look forward to returning after historic strike

PHILADELPHIA — Striking members of the first union in the storied history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art overwhelmingly approved their first contract Sunday evening and prepared to return to their jobs Monday morning, concluding a historic 19-day walkout.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Edinburgh art festival 2022 review – sunstruck blockbuster steals the show

A Greek chorus of clay busts, an audience with some molluscs and a magnificent show of impressionist masterpieces captivate

The Guardian - UK

Milton Avery at Royal Academy review: A notable American artist who went his own way

The Royal Academy’s substantial exhibition puts this post-war painter into the spotlight – it’s an enlivening experience, writes Mark Hudson

The Independent UK

Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, the original abstract expressionist – review

As this brilliant exhibition shows, Avery was an experimental dreamer whose sublime landscapes and beach scenes paved the way for Rothko, Pollock and Newman

The Guardian - UK

‘A genius is a sponge’: inside the new Picasso exhibition that isn’t all about Picasso

The Picasso Century at Australia’s NGV sees the artist share the spotlight with 50 of his contemporaries, and explains how one man could ‘catch and translate all the values of a time’

The Guardian - AU

Britain's Got Talent winners — full list of everyone who has won the show

Britain's Got Talent winners have wowed the nation for the last seventeen years. Here is a list of everyone who has won the show.

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Daily Mirror

BGT viewers divided as judges give dogs standing ovation and snub forgotten winners

Britain's Got Talent dog act Amber and Nymeria received a standing ovation tonight - but many were confused over what for

Daily Mirror

Britain’s Got Talent's biggest semi-final controversies from weeping children to dog deception

BGT has seen accusations of child exploitation, fraudulent acts, Ofcom complaints and even nepotism. We have taken a trip down memory lane to look back at the show's most shocking controversies to date...

Daily Mirror

BGT's biggest semi-final upsets - Ofcom fury and egg gate-crasher to 'fake' dog

From a musician pelting Simon Cowell with eggs to a 'fake' dog performing tricks, it's all happened on Britain's Got Talent over the years

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Tyrese Maxey considered “close to untouchable” in Philadelphia

Already this offseason, we've heard some "star hunting" type rumors regarding the Sixers, and I'm not here to tell you that they're out of the star business in general. Morey thinks their path to contention rests on acquiring another big-name guy, ...

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Where BGT's Jules and Matisse are now - 'fix' scandal, death threats and leaving UK

Jules O'Dwyer and her dog Matisse were in the doghouse after winning Britain's Got Talent in 2015 when it emerged that another dog called Chase had taken part in their final routine

Daily Mirror

Britain's Got Talent's forgotten controversies - tears, fix scandal and 'biased' judges

Hit ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent returned last month after ITV was forced to cancel in 2021 during the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

‘An apparition came towards me’: Tracey Emin on seeing a ghost and building a new life in Margate

Still in recovery from cancer, the artist has moved home with plans to open an art school, launch a catering college, and even spruce up the streets. She talks about her new sense of freedom – and the pain that infused her latest devastating nudes

The Conversation

NFTs: one year after Beeple sale, non-fungible tokens have become mainstream

One year ago, an artwork was sold for US$69 million (£52.6 million) by the prestigious auction house Christie’s. This was no lost Matisse or rarely seen Van Gogh. Instead, it was a composite collection of digital art by the then relatively unknown artist Beeple.

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