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'Given Where the World Is Right Now, I Want My Work to Bring People Joy' – Sheila Bridges Is as Fearless and Original as Ever and Knows How to Fill Spaces With Personality

In this instalment of our Layered Lives series, Sheila Bridges explores how her own style has evolved after shaping the design landscape for over 30 years

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Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others

Imagine you are asked to give a small amount of money to a stranger. It’s not your money, so it doesn’t cost you anything. You’re just deciding how much they get.

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Thomas de Hartmann: Rediscovered album review – a lament for postwar Ukraine

The Nazi occupation of Ukraine inspired this powerful violin concerto by De Hartmann, a Russian swept along on the tide of 20th-century devastation

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Best Wassily-style chairs to up your interiors game

Ain’t no party like a Bauhaus party

Evening Standard

50 Talented Bakers That Took Their Cakes To Another Level

There's a reason why people say, "You eat with your eyes first." However, the sweet treats you're about to see take that concept to an entirely new level. The post 50 Talented Bakers That Took Their Cakes To Another Level first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Best abstract art: originals and prints to heighten your home

Gestural pieces that offer an escape from reality

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50 Worst Ever Ways People Had Their Food Served In Restaurants

Some chefs go way too far with their creativity and, at times, start to inconvenience their customers, making them exclaim, “We want plates!” The post 50 Worst Ever Ways People Had Their Food Served In Restaurants first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider review – bringers of joy

Exploding, eventually, into colour, this invigorating show dedicated to the early 20th-century expressionist group gives deserved prominence to its least famous member, Gabriele Münter

The Guardian - UK

Expressionists at Tate Modern: a wonderful exhibition about an extraordinary art movement

This is about The Blue Rider art movement set up by a comsmopolitan group of friends including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter

Evening Standard

Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th century

The Guardian - UK

What is Bauhaus style? Experts explain the key principles of this iconic look

From abstract art to standout furniture design, we investigate the ethos behind Bauhaus style

Homes & Gardens

Free expressionism: a fresh look at revolutionary art collective the Blue Rider

A new exhibition shows how the early 20th-century German artists, helmed by Wassily Kandinksy and Gabriele Münter, created a space where creativity could flourish without the constraints of gender, sexuality or artistic expectation

The Guardian - UK

Van Gogh, Kandinsky Stars Of The Show At Dutch Art Fair

A rare early work by Vincent van Gogh and a record-selling masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky will be up for sale when one of the world's largest art fairs opens its doors this weekend.

International Business Times

‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney

You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW show

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German commission backs restitution of Kandinsky painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs

An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork originally belonged to

The Conversation

Pierre Bonnard: the master of shimmering luminosity, who painted difficult paintings and yet made them lucid and accessible

Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound.

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Zombie alert: Russian lawmaker complains about rogue design algorithm

A leading Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday he had filed a complaint about an online art tool promoted by the country's largest bank, saying it consistently generated negative images of Russia.

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The Independent UK

Nazi-stolen Kandinsky recovered by Holocaust victims’ heirs sells for record £37m

‘Murnau with Church II’ set a record price for the Russian artist

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Kandinsky painting stolen by Nazis fetches record £37.2m at auction

London sale comes after descendants of the owners, one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz, were reunited with work found in Dutch museum

The Independent UK

Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M

A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million)

Evening Standard

Edvard Munch painting hidden from Nazis in a barn sells at auction for nearly £17million

More than £170 million was spent as London’s auction season got into full swing with a series of major works going under the hammer at Sotheby’s, including two paintings restituted to their original owners after they were lost during the Nazis’ rise to power.

The Independent UK

‘Joyful’ portrait of Picasso’s daughter Maya sells at auction for over £18m

The piece was one of five works that was sold for more than £15 million at the sale by auction house Sotheby’s on Wednesday

Bangkok Post

Kandinsky masterpiece sells for record $45 million

LONDON - Wassily Kandinsky's masterpiece "Murnau Mit Kirche II", recently recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $45 million on Wednesday, a record for the artist according to auctioneers Sotheby's.

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Frantisek Kupka abstract painting owned by James Bond star expected to fetch more than £2m

The rare work by the Czech painter, titled Complexe, was acquired by the James Bond star in 2016

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