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MYSTERIOUS: Rubens - What They Never Told You

'Why do you keep doing this?': Rubens frontman finds calm in Group Therapy

Sam Margin has cut back the booze and The Rubens have never sounded better.

Newcastle Herald

We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

What music soundtracked 17th-century England? Ahead of a DJ set in Banqueting House, Georgia Mann looks at the wild, the experimental, the melancholic – and why a theorbo caused a security alert

The Guardian - UK

From the Crucifixion to pop art: how humanity has painted solar eclipses

Nebra sky disc, Rubens, Ribera, Howard Russell Butler and Roy Lichtenstein's pop art all show solar eclipses in painting, between religion, science and aesthetic fascination over millennia.

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First look at Buckingham Palace Picture Gallery's 'once-in-a-generation' revamp

The number of paintings on display has almost doubled to 120 ahead of the summer opening

Evening Standard

Fancy a European art break with fewer crowds? Try one of these five cities

Forget queuing at the Louvre or the Uffizi. You’ll find a fresh perspective on everything from medieval to modern art in places like Lille, Verona and Zurich

The Guardian - UK

6 ways to learn essential creative skills, inspired by the Masters

What Warhol, the Bauhaus and Paul Rand can teach us about thriving in the AI era.

Creative Bloq

Forget Paris: Five overlooked French cities you can reach by high-speed train (from just $13)

While Paris steals an understandably large portion of the limelight, US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill reveals other French treasures that make for captivating vacation destinations

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Plasticine men and giant goddess women: why Ken Kiff’s brilliant, bizarre art is getting a second look

A new exhibition celebrates the British painter, who was overlooked in the brash 90s, but now whose idiosyncratic work as artist in residence at the National Gallery is being newly celebrated

The Guardian - UK

Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attempt

The Guardian - US

Fernanda Torres is masterful in the poignant, Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here

4/5 This sensational true-life tale from director Walter Salles depicts the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970 – and fully deserves its three Oscar nods

The Independent UK

I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappeared

The Guardian - UK

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael review – bitchy Da Vinci conquers the army of gnarly nudes

The battle scenes at the centre of this somewhat academic exhibition ring with unforgettable violence – as Leonardo’s howling warrior prepares to sever an enemy’s hand

The Guardian - UK

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon gets personal, the poetry of decay and a sensory wonderland arrives – the week in art

The modern master’s portraits take the genre apart, Mire Lee explores entropy in the Turbine Hall and Haegue Yang enlivens multiple media

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The best art and architecture of 2023

Our critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

Evening Standard

Rubens and Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery review: a fresh look at breathtaking beauty

From his depictions of powerful women of the time to religious work featuring Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, this show is just heavenly

Newcastle Herald

Cambridge farewell party kicks into overdrive

"It's not a funeral, it's a wake."

The Guardian - UK

Natural Light by Julian Bell review – the forgotten German artist who inspired Rembrandt and Rubens

This engrossing history explains why the extraordinary – and tiny – paintings of Adam Elsheimer, who died in poverty in 1610 aged only 32, were revolutionary

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A local’s guide to Antwerp, Belgium: high art, gritty graffiti and great coffee

From Rubens and van Eyck to cutting edge street murals and fashion, art is at the heart of the Flemish city, says local guide Tim Marschang. The beer and cocktails are decent too

The Independent UK

The best hotels near Buckingham Palace

A range of stays for those planning a visit to the capital to pay their respects

The Independent UK

The best hotels near Buckingham Palace

A range of stays for those planning a visit to the capital to pay their respects

The Independent UK

Rubens' 'Portrait of a Lady' sells for $3.4 million

Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th century masterpiece “Portrait of a Lady” has sold for the equivalent of $3.4 million at a Warsaw auction, becoming the most expensive artwork ever bought on the Polish art market, the auction house said

ABC News

Why The Rubens lead singer Sam Margin was forced to turn to charity during the pandemic

Sam Margin is used to performing in front of thousands of people as lead singer of The Rubens, but when COVID-19 meant that stopped, his finances quickly dried up too.

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