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Eco-protesters fined over painting protest say da Vinci would ‘agree’ with them

Five Just Stop Oil activists have been fined £486 each at City of London Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

Bath’s slavery past, an exiled Iraqi and Britain’s first celebs – the week in art

Early photographs are put in the frame, Günther Förg revels in colour, Alberta Whittle probes Bath, and sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud gets an extended run

The Guardian - UK

Kindred spirits: books, music, art and more about seeing family

From an unconventional depiction of maternal holiness to weird, festive murder-thrillers, our critics select culture for coping with the clan

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Turner winners of the future, Mr Turner himself and our favourite dinosaur returns – the week in art

The ones to watch from the class of 22, Turner’s masterpieces get an immersive soundtrack and female printmakers take centre stage – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Leonardo Da Vinci-inspired Battersea flat designed by London artist is for sale

Artist Mark Humphrey designed the flat as a work of art for living in.

Evening Standard

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Queen Elizabeth was part of our psyche

The Queen knew how to let her myth work through her, exalting her station and her presence

The Guardian - UK

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Turnbull’s hobby, the Fall’s pope song, and Stevie Nicks’ atomic number – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

French kings, a Tammy teaser and no one-trick pony – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

If These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak

“The Clamor of Ornament,” a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and weavings to tell a complicated story, one that spans five centuries, about cultural exchange and appropriation. The curators define ornament as “embellishment, surface or structural, that can be lifted from…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A takeover in Swansea and a phallic Antony Gormley – the week in art

There’s surrealism at the V&A and the queering of a Swansea gallery’s ‘heternormative’ collection, while Gormley’s latest proposed public sculpture has caused a furore

The Guardian - UK

‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s?

For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings

The Guardian - UK

Does Amber Heard really have the world's most beautiful face? An expert explains why the Golden Ratio test is bogus

Amber Heard has one of the world’s most beautiful faces – that is, according to cosmetic surgeon Julian De Silva. The claim has been recycled for some years now, and recently resurfaced in the wake of Heard’s (widely reported) trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp.

The Conversation

How Leonardo figured out the beauty of anatomy

An exhibition in the National Museum of Scotland gives us a glimpse into the mind of a genius – and the grisly history of medical science

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The secret world of Leonardo da Vinci, with Jonathan Jones

Discover the true extent of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius, in a masterclass that draws on Jonathan Jones’s lifelong interest in both the artist’s dazzling works and the many lives he led

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil campaigners glue themselves to Da Vinci copy in Royal Academy

Protesters from the coalition have staged disruptions at major British museums five times in the past week

Daily Mirror

Climate protesters storm Royal Academy and glue themselves to Leonardo Da Vinci painting

Five Just Stop Oil supporters have spray-painted "No New Oil" in white letters onto the red slab under the vast painting in central London as police were called to the protest

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Just Stop Oil protestors glue themselves to The Last Supper painting

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Bones, bowels and body-snatchers – Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life review

William Burke’s skeleton looms over this gripping exhibition showcasing the spooky relics of science’s thirst for anatomical knowledge – and the horrors this often unleashed

The Independent UK

Rare drawings of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper on sale

The sketches are expected to fetch up to £120,000 each.

Zenger

Great Minds Alike: What Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso And Steve Jobs All Had In Common

Dyslexia has affected some of history’s greatest minds – including Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Sir Stephen Hawking.

The Guardian - UK

Unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci heads ‘home’ to French chateau where he died

The Vatican is allowing a rare loan of the Saint Jerome painting to the artist’s last residence in Clos Lucé

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian Artist Gives Famed Portrait Indigenous Makeover

High in Bolivia's Andean mountains, surrounded by small thatched roofed houses and sheep, Claudia Callizaya, 32, makes the final brushstroke to her newest piece of art: a take on the "Mona Lisa" as a local indigenous cholita woman. Her adaptation has the same steady gaze as in Leonardo da Vinci's…

Salon

Mona Lisa attacked with slice of cake

A man, who's since been arrested, created an elaborate disguise in order to get close enough to the masterpiece

Irish Mirror

Mona Lisa gets pied by man using wheelchair disguise in bizarre incident

The cake did not splatter the painting, but landed on the glass protection that covers the Leonardo da Vinci artwork

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