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Picasso and Warhol paintings belonging to ‘Hezbollah financier’ to be sold

The artworks were seized from Nazem Ahmad

The Independent UK

BBC Bargain Hunt star Ochuko Ojiri jailed over £140,000 art deals to suspected terrorist financier

BBC star Ochuko Ojiri traded art to a suspected terrorist financier to try to boost his career

Evening Standard

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions review – beauty and violence from a lost and dangerous YBA

He died before his time but Hamad Butt’s sublimely hazardous retrospective of mustard gas baubles and blinding lights is a thrilling mix of the nostalgic and new

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The Jewish dealer who bought art hated by the Nazis – and created one of the greatest collections ever seen

A new National Gallery of Australia show draws on Heinz Berggruen’s collection to celebrate the spread of modernism around the world, despite the Nazis’ best efforts

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Modernism from Cezanne to Australia in NGA blockbuster

Rarely seen modernist masterpieces by the likes of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso have come to Australia from Berlin's Museum Berggruen.

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Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers

The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national treasures – including ‘the biggest Picasso in the world’

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19 Fateful Times People Happened Across Random Things That Turned Out To Be Worth A Fortune

From people who found trash on the side of the road that wound up being worth thousands, to inherited goods that were way more valuable than originally thought, these 20 stories are all about luck.

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Grandfather and grandson art dealer duo curate exhibition celebrating David Hockney’s early work

New exhibition marks the first in-depth exploration of the early period of Hockney’s career, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art

The Independent UK

‘Ahead of his time’: Guyanese artist gets London show amid reappraisal

Aubrey Williams produced huge, colourful abstract paintings and was influenced by music and climate issues

The Guardian - UK

New snail species with shell shaped like Picasso’s art discovered

Researchers propose a new method to classify snails based on shell geometry

The Independent UK

The best spring jackets for women: 14 favourites for every occasion, from barn jackets to blazers

Sunny spring weather cools quickly at night. Stay protected from the chill (and the odd downpour) with our fashion expert’s pick of the best lightweight jackets

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t know they existed’: US exhibition highlights rarely seen Picasso artwork

In collaboration with the artist’s daughter, an ambitious Gagosian exhibition finds unusual ways to pair better-known pieces with those lesser seen

The Guardian - US

‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals

The Guardian - US

‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011

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Goodbye Just Stop Oil...hello Youth Demand

A radical, more militant breed of protest group is threatening to shut down London this summer. So who are they, and what do they want?

The Independent UK

Paris Metro bans David Hockney exhibition poster because artist is holding cigarette

Exclusive: David Hockney condemns ‘dismal’ decision taken by Paris Metro over poster for biggest ever Hockney exhibition

Evening Standard

London protests LIVE: Youth Demand accuse Government of 'trying to shut us down' at pro-Palestine rally

The ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ rally has begun in Bloomsbury

The Independent UK

David Hockney on his continued passion for work ahead of his biggest show in 25 years: ‘I will never stop painting’

INTERVIEW: The biggest living art star meets with his friend and legendary curator Sir Norman Rosenthal for a conversation about their upcoming show in Paris. At the latter’s London home, Geordie Greig learns why both of them will carry on making waves in the art world despite being in their…

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Who are Youth Demand? The protest group threatening to 'shut down' London for a month

Protest group Youth Demand has threatened to 'shut down' London with a month of co-ordinated action starting on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

INTERVIEW: Ahead of his new album ‘Sentient’, featuring collaborations with some of the great musical icons from history, the legendary guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about working with the King of Pop, his memories of Woodstock and Altamont, the genius of Miles Davis and why death is just…

The Guardian - UK

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book

The Independent UK

London’s oldest art fair marks 40th year with new works by celebrated British artists

Art fans spilled out of Somerset House as they tried to get their hands on a new work by renowned British print artist David Shrigley at the London Original Print Fair on Thursday (20 March).

The Guardian - UK

Steve Reich: ‘We all wish art could counter the direction of US politics. But it can’t’

Now 88, the minimalist composer has reissued his life’s work. He answers your questions about Bowie, the Grateful Dead, spirituality – and his complicated friendship with Philip Glass

The Independent UK

MF Husain painting surfaces after 70 years and sells for historic $13.8m

The 1954 mural-sized painting nearly quadrupled its estimated value

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Come together: Fine Art lovers look to revive market fortunes at TEFAF Maastricht

Dubbed the greatest art fair in the world, Tefaf, aka, the European Fine Arts Fair, in the charming history laden city of Maastricht is this week home to 273 galleries displaying over 7,000 years of exquisite work.

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