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Think you have strong opinions about the 2026 Archibald prize? Check out the portraits that didn’t make the cut

The judges’ selections are, as always, bonkers – but there’s something beautifully daggy about the whole thing too

The Guardian - AU

Doris Fisher obituary

Co-founder of Gap whose tastes helped establish the template for the clothing brand’s affordable ‘preppy’ look

The Guardian - UK

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunite on Day of the Dead in new Met Opera production

Frida Kahlo returns from the dead in the opera “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” premiering at the Metropolitan Opera this week

The Independent UK

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Image of Vesuvius erupting by painter said to have witnessed it fetches £25,000

An Eruption of Vesuvius in 1774 was painted by Jakob Philipp Hackert.

Evening Standard

Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets

Tate Britain, LondonThe Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing

The Guardian - UK

Hidden for centuries: Germany’s ‘gilded dead’ and the church’s secret gold skeletons revealed

For hundreds of years, Bavarian churches kept a clandestine heritage within their quiet halls: the ‘gilded dead.’ These are the Catacomb Saints, thousands of skeletons exhumed from Roman catacombs and distributed across Germany to bolster the Catholic faith during the Counter-Reformation. Transformed by painstaking artistry, these remains were encased in…

The Times of India

‘It’s a love letter’: exhibition pays tribute to Frank Gehry’s lesser-known works

The late designer was best known for his distinctive buildings, but the first show since his death last year focuses on his non-architectural pieces

The Guardian - US

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The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

Two decades after it opened in a multi-storey in Peckham in London, the space has redrawn the map for how to present art – with rooftop cocktails and the pink staircase that launched a thousand selfies

The Guardian - UK

"Every caricature that I create is a challenge"

Luis Rojas on anatomy, fantasy and finding a fresh way to depict well-known faces.

Creative Bloq

Epstein files, Trump connections, 3.5 million pages: New York pop-up puts it all on display

A New York exhibition displays nearly 3.5 million pages of newly released Justice Department documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Donald Trump. The pop-up library, titled "The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room," aims to expose corruption and dangers to democracy. Organizers hope the display…

The Times of India

Greggs to open international shop at Tenerife South airport

Greggs last operated shops abroad in Belgium in 2008, but said Tenerife was “the ideal location to test spreading our wings in an overseas setting”.

Evening Standard

‘When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair’: behind the scenes at Angel’s Bone, ENO’s audacious Manchester debut

After years of upheaval, English National Opera is staging its first new opera in its northern base: the Pulitzer-winning Angel’s Bone, about two angels brutally exploited by human traffickers. We talk to its creators

The Guardian - UK

Ray Burgoyne obituary

Other lives: Carpenter and musician who had a late flowering as an artist

The Guardian - UK

The moment I knew: I gave her one of my paintings, she gave me an empty chip packet

When Mitch Cairns met Agatha Gothe-Snape, he was instantly charmed. Then an absurd exchange shifted their relationship into something more than friendship

The Guardian - AU

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Female nudity and art that stinks: key takeaways from Venice Biennale 2026

Despite a call for calm, a combustible mix of politics and protest punctuated the preview week across the pavilions

The Guardian - UK

At the Venice Biennale I saw anger at Russia and Israel – and its leadership pretending everything was fine

The festival can often make you queasy, as geopolitics are played out through the proxy of art. This year it feels on the verge of collapsing in on itself, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK

What not to miss at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Barenaked bell ringers, banned opera singers and mind-boggling dog-owner relationships … the art at this year’s biennale has people calling the cops

The Independent UK

Elaborately decorated skeletons in Catholic churches across Bavaria take some visitors by surprise

Four skeletons, known as catacomb saints or Holy Bodies, have been on display for centuries at the Catholic monastery church of Banz in southern Germany

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Story of enslaved boy featured in 1748 Joshua Reynolds portrait emerges in new study

Exclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedom

The Guardian - AU

Khaled Sabsabi is finally at the Venice Biennale: ‘Being here is already a win’

Australia’s representative at the world’s biggest art show has not one but two works on show – a major achievement and happy ending to a year of controversy and protest

The Independent UK

An outsider artist takes the world's biggest stage with the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

U.S. artist Alma Allen had just months to prepare his exhibition for the Venice Biennale after a fraught selection process came down to the wire

Evening Standard

Camilla given fan from coronation portrait on visit to museum’s new exhibition

Camilla opened The Fan Museum’s new Monarchy exhibition in Greenwich as part of her role as its patron.

The Guardian - UK

‘A daring flash of pubic hair’: the extraordinary, monumental nudes of Sylvia Sleigh

A new show of this Welsh-born artist’s mesmerising portraits is worth visiting for one nude alone: a painting of an eyes-closed, long-legged, elegant brunette, inspired by Sleeping Venus

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a tiny bit of joy!’ How trinket swapping is making the world a happier place, one china sheep at a time

What’s so life-affirming about collecting and trading miniature animals, keyrings, stickers and pins? We visit one of the 1,500 trinket exchanges to find out

The Independent UK

How one German artist's remembrance stones turn Berlin sidewalks into Holocaust memorials

German artist Gunter Demnig has installed small Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin for 30 years

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