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Marine art deepens our understanding of the oceans – here’s how it has evolved through the centuries

From seascapes and ship portraits to underwater wildlife and coastal scenes, artworks on display this month at the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2024 illustrate the diversity of marine art.

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30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’

Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting you wished you could crawl inside of it? To be inside the world that Van Gogh, Cézanne, or Monet created? The post 30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’ first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Overland from Margate to Marrakech: An art-filled journey across France and Spain

A flight-free adventure between the UK and North Africa offers the romance of slow travel alongside the opportunity to get to know some of Europe’s most famous artists, finds Diana Jarvis

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‘More Le Touquet than Thanet’: review of No 42 hotel, Margate, Kent

With its oyster bar, rooftop terrace and Turner-worthy sunset views, this breezy, elegant boutique hotel is a welcome new addition to the town’s seafront

The Guardian - UK

Late paintings reveal Lloyd Rees' landscapes of light

The late paintings of renowned artist Lloyd Rees are on display together for the first time, revealing a burst of creativity inspired by Tasmania's landscapes.

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The National Gallery turns 200: director Gabriele Finaldi on London's 'beautiful, jewelled treasure chest'

‘For many Londoners, we feel the National Gallery is ours... It’s embedded in this history of this country and the history of London’

Evening Standard

Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia review – Fighting Temeraire sets Tyneside ablaze

How do you make Turner’s most famous painting cool? Take it to Tyneside, where it’s end-of-an-era magnificence takes on a whole new ghostly meaning

The Guardian - UK

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Home with a view: 'one of a kind' Richmond house with protected viewpoint on the market for £7.5m

The view over the Thames Valley is protected by an Act of Parliament

Evening Standard

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

Medieval monks’ night staircase rebuilt at Furness Abbey

Project gives new views of atmospheric monastic ruins in Cumbria visited by likes of JMW Turner and Wordsworth

The Guardian - UK

Swatch and Tate have watches down to a fine art

Swatch x Tate watches are a joyful tribute to seven artists, including Matisse, Miró, and Louise Bourgeois

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Streaming: the best films about artists

From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

The Guardian - UK

Yoko Ono’s bottoms, Frank Auerbach’s heads and visionary new landscapes – the week in art

The pop icon finally gets the retrospective she deserves while Tracey Emin and Judy Chicago unpick their textile pieces

The Guardian - UK

Prince’s prints, stolen Shrigleys and Apocalypse, Nativity – the week in art

It’s your last chance to catch a post-modernist provocateur’s photos, a jaw-dropping dinosaur and more – all in your weekly dispatch

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Heroic, short, callous, crumpled, Christlike: how artists portrayed Napoleon before Ridley Scott

From a battlefield avenger to a nude colossus, the Corsican conqueror was a rich subject for artists across Europe. But did Turner, who painted him as a fallen emperor, finally capture the truth?

Evening Standard

Annie Morris & Idris Khan at Pitzhanger Manor: ‘Painful moments make the best work’

The couple is showing their art together at a public London gallery for the first time. They talk about how their shared grief and love have coloured their lives and work

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Mel Giedroyc and Martin Clunes embark on a literary journey through Dorset

The two friends take off Meryl Streep and read Thomas Hardy. Plus, more blood and gore at the Colosseum. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Independent UK

Turner watercolour Sunrise Over The Sea sells for more than £1m

The piece features bold yellows, oranges and blues to capture the changing sunlight over what is thought to be Margate.

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Turner sunrise watercolour expected to fetch more than £600,000 at auction

It is to be sold at Christie’s auction house on July 4 as part of their Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours sale.

The Independent UK

How Tate Britain overhauled 500 years of art history with its first rehang in a decade

The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will expand and diversify the canon

Evening Standard

Monet’s hazy masterpieces may be air pollution rather than inspiration - new report

The hazy dream-like appearance that characterises Monet’s impressionist masterpieces may have more to do with climate change than artistic inspiration, according to a new scientific study.

The Independent UK

JMW Turner painting of Chepstow Castle sold at auction for more than £90,000

The British artist was 19 years old when he created the watercolour, which has been kept in a private family collection in London since 1956.

The Guardian - UK

From Infinity Pool to Succession: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s an icky shocker from a body-horror scion or a warring dynasty of uber-rich media scumbags, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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An arty weekend in … Petworth, West Sussex

Lee Miller, Frank Auerbach and Picasso have all starred recently at this pretty market town’s eyecatching new gallery

The Independent UK

Turner painting of Chepstow Castle to be sold at auction

The watercolour, which is said to be ‘in immaculate condition’, is being offered on the open market for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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