3 d. ago ‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict  The Art Newspaper

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4 d. ago Rebel 'porn heiress' India Rose James, whose £329million fortune aged 21 made her richer than the Queen, gets engaged to indie musician in celeb

The 33-year-old London art gallery owner announced the news on Tuesday night, posting a photo on Instagram of her engagement ring - a vintage-style sapphire surrounded by diamonds.

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4 d. ago Chinese Collector and Philanthropist to Open New Nonprofit Art Space in London’s Bloomsbury District

Chinese Collector and Philanthropist to Open New Nonprofit Art Space in London’s Bloomsbury District  ARTnews.com

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5 d. ago Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait GalleryOil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.Top US fossil fuel lobby group the American Petroleum Institute (API) sponsored a 2017 workshop for the Pennsylvania Girl Scouts, featuring “activities that mimicked work in the energy industry”. Energy giant BP in 2016 sponsored Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and continues to fund the British Museum in London. And in 2019, Shell sponsored the golf event the Houston Open for the 26th time. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Celebrating its bicentenary, London's National Gallery makes three major acquisitions

Celebrating its bicentenary, London's National Gallery makes three major acquisitions  The Art Newspaper

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9 d. ago Photo London Highlights Photography Market’s Resilience Amid Art Market’s Decline

Photo London Highlights Photography Market’s Resilience Amid Art Market’s Decline  ARTnews.com

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1 week ago ‘A new lease of life’: London’s Annely Juda Fine Art looks to the future with Mayfair move

‘A new lease of life’: London’s Annely Juda Fine Art looks to the future with Mayfair move  The Art Newspaper

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1 week ago Kharkiv photographer to present her work at London Art Biennale 2025

Kharkiv photographer to present her work at London Art Biennale 2025  Ґвара Медіа

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1 week ago London’s newest free art gallery has launched with an immersive balloon installation

London’s newest free art gallery has launched with an immersive balloon installation  Time Out

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1 week ago ‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice

He is a transfixing screen presence – but he lives for the raw thrill of the stage. As he takes over the Venice theatre biennale, the star lets us know what to expect: cut-up plays and a Pinocchio unlike any otherSitting in his house in Rome, an overstuffed bookcase and a distressed wooden door behind him, Willem Dafoe scrunches his hair as though kneading the thoughts in his head. The 69-year-old, Wisconsin-born actor could pass today for any genial, bristle-moustached handyman in checked shirt and horn-rimmed specs. (Perhaps he even built the bookcase and distressed the door himself.) But it’s that hand that is the giveaway: it keeps scrunching as he talks until the hair is standing in jagged forks. As a visualisation of what is happening in his brain, it is second to none.We are speaking in April on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth (and death), which feels apt given that it is Dafoe’s two-year appointment as artistic director of the international theatre festival at the Ven...

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1 week ago Company behind London art galleries which claimed to sell works by Banksy and Andy Warhol is shut down

Company behind London art galleries which claimed to sell works by Banksy and Andy Warhol is shut down  GOV.UK

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1 week ago Wes Anderson’s priceless “Renaissance portrait” to go on show in London

Wes Anderson’s priceless “Renaissance portrait” to go on show in London  The Art Newspaper

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2 w. ago Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review

From 3D-printing with bacteria to cocktail-mixing humanoids, from the future of space suits to reassurances about climate change, this mind-boggling rollercoaster of a show could do with a more focused curatorial visionA teetering wall of gungy green bricks greets visitors to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, forming an imposing blockade near the start of the show. The blocks are made of bio-cement, incorporating fishing nets and algae dredged from the depths of the Venetian lagoon. The wall’s steeply sloping gradient follows the curve of global population growth over the last millennium, terminating abruptly near the ceiling to represent the coming peak of humanity. “What awaits us on the other side of the hill?” asks Carlo Ratti, director of this year’s biennale, as he stands in front of the momentous cliff. The answer is a great heap of gunge. A festering mountain of mould-like gunk is piled up against the back of the wall, apparently an allegory for microbial intelligenc...

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2 w. ago The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★  The Art Newspaper

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2 w. ago Malak Mattar becomes first Palestinian artist to get solo show at London's prestigious Central Saint Martins

Malak Mattar becomes first Palestinian artist to get solo show at London's prestigious Central Saint Martins  The Art Newspaper

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2 w. ago How a London Art Agency Is Rewriting the Rules of the Art World—for Women

How a London Art Agency Is Rewriting the Rules of the Art World—for Women  Art Plugged

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2 w. ago BBC Bargain Hunt star Ochuko Ojiri charged with terror offence after Met Police probe into terrorist financing

The 53-year-old London art dealer has been a regular face on the BBC shows for several years.

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2 w. ago Bargain Hunt star Ochuko Ojiri charged with terrorist financing in Met probe

Art dealer Ochuko Ojiri, of west London, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday

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2 w. ago The best of the Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 – in pictures

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns this weekend to London, New York City and Marrakech. It remains the first and only fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and this year sees a total of 30 galleries and more than 70 artists. The show runs 8 to 11 May Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science labWhile in art school in London, Su Yu-Xin calculated that most painters used one of five brands of high-end oil paint, and that each brand produced only about 60 colors.“That’s really scary,” the Slade graduate said. “It’s like all the top chefs in the world shop from the same grocery store.” Continue reading...

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