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UNCOVERED: Matisse - The Untold Story

‘It’s like witnessing a Renoir or Matisse painting coming to life’: readers’ favourite trips in France

From Normandy to Provence, our readers enjoy great art, architecture and outdoor activities in France

The Guardian - UK

Selling stolen art is tricky, so why even bother heisting it? An expert explains

It took less than three minutes for an organised crime gang to steal a Renoir, Matisse and a Cezanne painting collectively worth around €9 million (£7.8m) from a private museum near Parma, Italy in March 2026. This is the second high profile art heist in recent months, after the theft…

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Renoir and Matisse paintings stolen in daring €9m art heist

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From The Magic Faraway Tree to 5 Seconds of Summer: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Enid Blyton’s classic kids’ fantasy novel gets the big-screen treatment, while the Aussie boyband hit the UK’s arenas

The Guardian - UK

Matisse 1941-1954: Paris exhibition traces painter's final years

The exhibition "Matisse 1941-1954" is now on at the Grand Palais in Paris. More than 300 paintings, drawings, books and cut-out gouaches trace this pivotal, and most prolific, period in the artist’s life.

Euronews

My depression felt creatively expansive. Now I’ve overcome it, how do I keep the meaningful parts?

Darkness can present itself as truth, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But love, joy and awe are far richer experiences

The Guardian - AU

Suspects haul stolen Matisse artworks through Sao Paulo

CCTV footage shows the moment suspected thieves hauled stolen Matisse artworks through the streets of Sao Paulo.

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11 Books About Art Heists That Are Almost as Thrilling as Raiding the Louvre

Obsessed with unsolved painting theft and the underbelly of the art world? Allow us to recommend your next read.

Marie Claire

‘One of the most breathtaking cathedrals in the world’: readers’ favourite churches in Europe

Wonderful art, mysterious history, amazing design and beautiful locations have drawn our tipsters to these shrines from Norway to Bulgaria

The Guardian - UK

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

The Guardian - UK

Over 400 items from Gene Hackman’s estate up for auction

Lots include artworks by Matisse, Rodin, Kandinsky and the late actor’s own paintings – as well as his watch, dartboard and Golden Globes

The Guardian - UK

Well, That's Something New — This Designer Put the Homeowner's 100+ Piece Ceramic Collection Across the Ceiling of Their Tiny Apartment's Kitchen

In this Brussels apartment, Eastern European influence is seamlessly interwoven throughout the Belgian setting, and one area stands out the most

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Back to the land: revisiting the streets of Aix-en-Provence, the birthplace of Paul Cezanne

As a season of events celebrates the life of the city’s most famous son, Dale Berning Sawa revisits the region central to his art, where she, too, grew up

The Guardian - UK

‘You can’t wear gold without diamonds!’ Hip-hop legend Slick Rick on bling, British roots and his 26-year break

He is the rapper’s rapper, adored by Jay-Z, and once called ‘the most beautiful thing to happen to hip-hop’. So why has he taken so long to release his new album? And can we please see his diamond-crusted Virgin Mary medallion?

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The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction

You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships

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Rainbow vases, vintage soap dishes and crystal bike bells: 15 colourful pick-me-ups to elevate your everyday

Seek out joy in a turbulent world with these carefully chosen treats (they make great gifts, too)

The Guardian - UK

‘A mutual love affair’: David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris

Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capital

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These Artworks Are So Easy That Not Getting At Least 30/43 Is Embarrassing

Do you think you can differentiate Monet from Manet? What about Matisse from Magritte? Art has shaped history, culture, and creativity for centuries, and now is the time to put your knowledge to the test. You know more than you think, and this trivia will prove it!Get ready to dive…

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An explosion of colour and the downfall of an Instagram darling – what to see and watch this week

Anyone familiar with Scotland will know the weather is at best mercurial, and at worst wet, grey and what we call “dreich” – a good Scottish word meaning drab. For an artist in the early 20th century suffering not just miserable weather but a cultural landscape of joyless, soul-sucking Presbyterianism,…

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Scottish colourists exhibition: the painters who stood shoulder to shoulder with Matisse and Cezanne

The exhibition curator James Knox is to be congratulated on bringing together an impressive collection of work that tells the story of a diverse group of artists who helped transform and modernise British art in the early 20th century and contains work held in private collections not seen by the…

The Guardian - UK

Lives Less Ordinary review – is this really a fair view of the British working class?

On show in one of London’s swankier mansions, this exhibition features some great art – but betrays a clichéd view of what authentic working class expression really is

The Independent UK

Swap Mickey Mouse for Matisse: How to have a culture-filled family trip to Orlando beyond the theme parks

While most families only think of the bright lights of Disney when booking an Orlando holiday, Eddi Fiegel and her young daughter dive deeper into the city and discover a type of magic that most tourists don’t get to see

TechRadar

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

Frank Auerbach obituary

One of the great postwar figurative painters who was a leading light of the School of London

The Conversation

Vale Leon Paroissien: the first director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who shaped how Australians experience art

In 1975 when Gough Whitlam opened the Manet to Matisse exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which had come to Australia from the United States, he proudly proclaimed it was only possible as the Australian government had

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