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Jeff Koons meets Picasso: The king of kitsch takes on a modern master

Reflections. Picasso / Koons, the Museo Picasso’s latest exhibition specially staged at the Alhambra, brings together two artistic giants in conversation

The Independent UK

Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling

Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artworks of the 20th century. The painting is huge and violent, and when it was first displayed in 1937 it was considered absolutely groundbreaking.

The Conversation

‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiving her due

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TV tonight: Joe Lycett and David O’Doherty’s dreamy Spanish holiday

The comedians eat and drink their way around Málaga. Plus: Brie Larson talks to Graham Norton about her West End show. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Aberdeen unveils programme of events for 2025 including Spectra and Tall Ship Race

ABERDEEN has unveiled its cultural events programme for the new year.

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Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art: ‘I don’t want to be lazy’

World’s most expensive artist, who is exhibiting at the Alhambra in Granada, sees his work as embedded in biology

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney plays with our perception of fine art in Palm Springs

'David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed' is currently on show at the Palm Springs Art Museum

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Nonfiction to look out for in 2025

From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss

The Guardian - UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

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

The Guardian - UK

‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany

Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and Klee

The Guardian - UK

How to do Rome like Harry Styles: An insider's guide to the Eternal City

Long languid dinner, perusing for vintage wares, drinking natural wine on cobbled streets — Juliana Piskorz has the inside track on how to have a Roman holiday the Styles way

Evening Standard

X marks the bitcoin: the treasure hunt book is back – and it’s bigger than ever

Hidden in five chests across the US, the bounty includes everything from a Picasso pendant to Jackie O’s sapphires and a spot of crypto currency. We meet Jon Collins-Black, writer of the book behind the hunt – and a searcher himself

The Guardian - UK

Kanye West screamed ‘I’m like Picasso’ while strangling model, lawsuit alleges

Latest legal complaint against the controversial rapper alleges that he choked a woman on the set of another musician’s video in 2010

The Independent UK

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Why you're wrong about AI art, according to the Ai-Da robot that just made a $1 million painting

The Ai-Da robot recently made a painting that sold for over $1 million. Is that something to be celebrated or lambasted?

The Guardian - UK

Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York

The Independent UK

Iran's vast collection of Western art, much long hidden, re-emerges despite high tensions with US

As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying Western artwork including pieces not seen by the public in at least a decade

The Guardian - UK

80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art

Plus: a magical Picasso print, a farewell to Frank Auerbach and polyamorous bohemian Dora Carrington gets her own show – all in your weekly dispatch

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The don’t-miss Swiss art museums for your next cultural flit

Map these 11 Swiss art museums, worthy pitstops for the culturally curious, from Basel to Zürich and beyond

The Guardian - UK

‘He painted with a fury for life’ – how Frank Auerbach put lust and sorrow into every brushstroke

Saved from the Holocaust, this supremely modern painter captured the devasatation of postwar Britain as if it was his own – but he ultimately found salvation in painting

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European Art Forgery Network Dismantled After 2M Scam

Italian authorities crack down on art forgery network, seizing 2,100 fake artworks worth 200 million euros.

The Independent UK

Police uncover £165m forgery network across Europe producing Banksy, Picasso fakes

Police say over 2,100 pieces of forged artwork were recovered

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“A Homemade Peace Of Artwork”: Guy Hates GF’s Birthday Gift, Says It Makes Him Uncomfortable

This man’s girlfriend created a piece of art for his birthday, but it didn’t evoke the reaction she hoped for. The post “A Homemade Peace Of Artwork”: Guy Hates GF’s Birthday Gift, Says It Makes Him Uncomfortable first appeared on Bored Panda.

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A Spanish drunkard, exploding punks and a Renaissance showdown – the week in art

Leonardo and Michelangelo face off, the lucid art of the Mughal empire eclipses the Taj Mahal, and the Punjab comes to Compton Verney

The Independent UK

Picasso the printmaker: More than 100 works go on display at the British Museum

Huge exhibition will delve into the emotional vulnerability and sexual depravity of the renowned artist

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