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Switzerland’s best art exhibitions to see in 2025

Art fans, here’s your bucket list of the standout exhibitions to see in Switzerland in 2025, exploring compelling themes and diverse media

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The ongoing adventures of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

In today’s Football Daily: News about two of football’s lesser-heard names

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OPINION - The London Question: is London now financially impossible for artists and creatives?

Let’s be more like Oslo, where they actually make the city liveable for artists

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‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art

She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her

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Bastille’s Dan Smith releases Edvard Munch-inspired solo track ‘Blue Sky & the Painter’

Musician is releasing a solo album inspired by historical and mythological figures

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Brits admit they’re ‘clueless’ about art including paintings by Pablo Picasso

A poll of 2,000 adults found that 46 per cent know next to nothing about legendary painters or their notable works

The Independent UK

After the British Museum thefts, what other major art heists have there been?

One Rembrandt has been stolen four times, and works by Van Gogh, Munch and Picasso have also been targeted by criminals

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TV Tonight: how a former professional footballer stole Edvard Munch’s The Scream

The incredible story of a truly bizarre art heist. Plus, David Bowie profiled. Here’s what to watch this evening.

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Beyond Munch: Norwegian art shares spotlight with Bubbles the chimp in Oslo

As a major exhibition celebrates founder Hans Rasmus Astrup, the museum has been promoting fresher Norwegian talent

The Guardian - UK

Nazi-stolen Kandinsky recovered by Holocaust victims’ heirs sells for record £37m

‘Murnau with Church II’ set a record price for the Russian artist

The Independent UK

Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M

A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million)

The Independent UK

‘Joyful’ portrait of Picasso’s daughter Maya sells at auction for over £18m

The piece was one of five works that was sold for more than £15 million at the sale by auction house Sotheby’s on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Art fraudster jailed for trying to sell 15 forgeries at Madrid auction house

Fake works linked to Guillermo CT include forgeries of Munch, Lichtenstein, Chillida and Guerrero

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m going to get a beating’ – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more

Once Europe’s most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn’t getting any sleep

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Travel to learn, understand and satisfy your curiosity on Viking cruise

A long-awaited journey is usually the result of hard work, saving and preparation, and the subject of excited chats with friends and family.

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Strep A death figures | Franklin D Roosevelt | The Scream | Companio bakery

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How Munch’s friend hid a masterpiece in a Norwegian barn to foil the Nazis

Owner’s family to sell Dance on the Beach and split up to £20m with descendants of Jewish academic who had to sell it in 1934

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When AI can make art – what does it mean for creativity?

Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype

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Famed Painting ‘The Scream’ Targeted by Climate Activists

Norwegian police said two climate activists tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece "The Scream" at an Oslo museum and no harm was reported to the painting of a waif-like figure appearing to scream. Police said they were alerted by the National Museum of Norway…

The Independent UK

Famed painting "The Scream" targeted by climate activists

Two people have tried in vain to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at a museum in Norway's capital

The Guardian - UK

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Into the Music review – an allegro trio

From dancers partnering with projections and CCTV-style surveillance to an engrossing piece inspired by Edvard Munch, Carlos Acosta’s company is continuing to carve out a niche

The Guardian - UK

Orgiastic body art, a Midlands meme and Hockney meets the Pharaohs – the week in art

A fresh look at Carolee Schneemann’s pioneering performance art, ‘four lads in jeans’ immortalised in bronze, and new visions of ancient Egypt

The Guardian - UK

Oslo’s vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls

The ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making and the striking installation in the foyer is a statement of intent

The Independent UK

Gift from Norway: A new cultural gem amid the natural wonders

The Man Who Pays His Way: How many great Norwegian art works can you name?

The Guardian - UK

Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen review – a magical misery tour

These 18 spectacular paintings, most in Britain for the first time, capture the speed of Munch’s evolution from breezy pastiche to masterly melancholy

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