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Design replaces art commission as fair tickets sell out

One of Australia's biggest contemporary art events has replaced a major commission for 2026, but the crowds don't mind, with day-one tickets selling out.

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Isaiah Zagar death: Philadelphia’s acclaimed mosaic artist, dies aged 86

The much-loved artist created hundreds of public mosaics, many of which adorn structures along Philadelphia’s vibrant South Street corridor

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The Epstein files arrest of former ‘Prince’ Andrew makes Trump’s Justice Department look pathetic

ANALYSIS: The British police have taken action. Where on Earth is Pam Bondi’s DOJ? asks Holly Baxter

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Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints

Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed bandits

The Guardian - UK

Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn

Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure

The Guardian - AU

High-end design burrows into contemporary art fair

The Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australia's biggest events for art collectors and features an Archibald prize winner - but it's smaller than it used to be.

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Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

Owner calls it ‘ludicrous’ Dissent Cafe and Bar was shut down after complaint, the first in Australia’s capital since new federal hate symbol laws

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‘OK, talk, but don’t make any sound!’: Philippe Gaulier’s illustrious students on his clowning glory

Comedians, theatre-makers and actors including Rachel Weisz, Sally Phillips and Simon Munnery recall the late teacher’s alarming lessons

The Guardian - UK

Police on the case: How Rome's beloved Bernini elephant sculpture lost the tip of its tusk — again

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk

The Independent UK

How to use lore to drive your character designs

Lucas Lacerda uses a world-building approach to guide his design choices.

Creative Bloq

Olives, opera and a climate-neutral goal: How a mural in Greece won ‘Best in the World’

Greece's southern city of Kalamata, long known for its olives and seaside charm, has found itself in the spotlight

The Independent UK

With ants, blooms and birds, museum rethinks uni smarts

From plants that smell like rotting meat to insects that absorb light, a university museum art exhibition rethinks intelligence.

AAP

'That cycling high is everything' — Specialized launches limited-edition Tarmac SL8 artist-series

Three bike-loving artists turn Specialized’s flagship road framesets into rolling canvases

Cycling Weekly

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like?

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Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

The East German-born artist, who has died aged 41, came of age in a deeply dysfunctional landscape, using furniture to reveal schisms masked by unification

Creative Bloq

Beer brand gives Lunar New Year an abstract makeover

1664 joins forces with French artist Camille Walala.

Evening Standard

'Marooned' Byron statue to be moved into Hyde Park after huge fundraising campaign

The statue has been moved to a more visible location near Victoria Gate in Hyde Park, thanks to a grant of £230,000

The Guardian - UK

Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

Reina Sofía’s three-year rehang of works by artists from Spain and beyond is billed as a ‘critical reinterpretation’

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Barbican arts director to leave, months after revealing creative vision for centre

Shock departure of Devyani Saltzman comes weeks after new CEO joined and before major refurbishment

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery to make major cuts in effort to stem ballooning deficit

Move could mean fewer free exhibitions and paid-for shows and more expensive tickets

The Guardian - UK

Yin Xiuzhen and Chiharu Shiota review – so on-the-nose it gives you a nosebleed

One artist critiques capitalism via sculptures made of tatty T-shirts. The other weaves threads like a hyperactive spider. Neither say much – but they’ll look great on Instagram

The Guardian - UK

British Museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from some displays

Museum revises labelling on maps and panels, saying term used inaccurately and no longer historically neutral

The Guardian - UK

Delaine Le Bas review – former Turner nominee delivers witches, warm welcomes – and wallpaper

The Romany artist takes a mural she made for Glastonbury as a starting point, then builds a dizzying series of rooms exploring connection and exclusion

The Guardian - UK

‘Bring it back’: Sicilians say Antonello da Messina’s Ecce Homo belongs with them

Much of Messina’s cultural memory was destroyed in a 1908 earthquake, but the Italian government has secured a masterpiece by the port city’s greatest son

The Guardian - UK

‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology

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