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SHOCKING: Ashmolean museum - What They Never Told You

From Jenny Saville’s gobsmacking show to a pomo celebration of Richard Rogers – the week in art

Saville paints beauty and terror, Watteau returns, a £2.5m Rubens gets an unfair drubbing and erotic art reveals itself

The Guardian - UK

Art of Thom Yorke and Radiohead album covers to be exhibited for first time

The exhibition will include paintings, drawings and digital art from the 1980s onwards.

Evening Standard

Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India

Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been looted

The Guardian - UK

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Bruegel to Rubens review – strange and humble Flemish art with almost edible detail

This rich, earthy show pays tribute to the genius of many northern European artists who were inspired by Italy’s powerful cultural pull

The Guardian - UK

Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2023

Our critic’s highlights included spotlit Vermeer, mouse-fur beauty spots, Donatello saints, Alice Neel’s New Yorkers and the reopening of an underloved institution

The Guardian - UK

How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card

The Victorian era was not as dusty and monochrome as we think; a new exhibition and a pan-European project, Chromotope, explores a wave of chemical breakthroughs that brought colour to the people

The Guardian - UK

Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother; Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design – review

The late Swedish artist’s anarcho-eco-feminist paintings are as much activism as art in an illuminating Oxford show. Up the road, a look at how the Victorians linked vivid colour and morality

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

The Guardian - UK

Indulge in the food of Ancient Greece at a new London dining experience

The Labyrinth menu at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park offers food inspired by the delicacies of Ancient Greece

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Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean review – art of extraordinary intimacy

More than 200 treasures from ancient Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia reach directly to us through the wave-swept ages

The Guardian - UK

Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

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Oxford and Cambridge universities could return 213 looted artefacts from Benin

The 213 objects were taken from Benin City by British troops in February 1897.

The Independent UK

Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum

The Oxford museum’s Heberden coin room holds antique cash objects from around the world. As we test our faith in digital cryptocurrencies, what can we learn from its collection?

The Guardian - UK

Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light

The impressionist painter lacks the glitzy kudos of peers such as Monet and Degas but is celebrated in this study, tied to an exhibition of his work

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