56 h. ago ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilienceAs you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It’s a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo, sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as “home abroad”.The scene, which depicts the childhood home of Coventry-born curator and artist Hardish Virk, is one of several spaces in an immersive exhibition at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. It traces four decades of the experiences of south Asians as they arrived and adapted to the social, political and cultural changes in modern Britain. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Still Glasgow: The photography exhibition celebrating a city 'full of hope and resilience'

Marking the 30th anniversary of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Still Glasgow covers nearly 80 years of photographic documentation of the city, writes Katie Bruce

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3 w. ago Moment thief steals £270,000 Banksy print to pay off drug debt

A dramatic smash-and-grab burglary of a £270,000 Banksy print from a London gallery was captured on video.

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3 w. ago Shock moment burglar robs art gallery of Banksy’s iconic Girl with Balloon worth £270k as thief jailed

THIS is the shocking moment a burglar stole Banksy's iconic Girl with Balloon artwork from a London gallery. The thief who stole the £270,000-worth signed print has now been jailed. CCTV footage caught the "dramatic smash-and-grab" late night robbery which was carried out on a September evening last year. The prized possession pictures a stencil...

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3 w. ago Man jailed for stealing Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ print in smash

Man jailed for stealing Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ print in smash-and-grab London robbery  CNN

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3 w. ago Man jailed after stealing £270,000 Banksy print to pay off historic drug debt

Larry Fraser, 49, stole the limited edition painting from the Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, central London, in September 2024

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3 w. ago Man jailed for stealing £270k Banksy print from London art gallery

Judge Anne Brown described the incident as a ‘brazen and serious non-domestic burglary’

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3 w. ago Moment brazen thief breaks into London gallery to steal £270,000 Banksy artwork...before casually strolling down the road with it tucked by his side

Larry Fraser, 49, made his way through London with the Banksy print Girl with Balloon tucked by his side after being stolen from a gallery in the capital.

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3 w. ago Princess Eugenie's art gallery charged with breaching Russian sanctions after HMRC probe

Princess Eugenie, 35, has worked with Hauser & Wirth, which has two central London showrooms, since 2015 and is a director of the gallery, according to an interview on its website

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3 w. ago Princess Eugenie's art gallery is charged with breaching Russian sanctions 'after supplying luxury goods to Moscow

It allegedly supplied the painting Escape from Humanity by American artist George Condo to the art collector sometime between August 10 and December 31 2022.

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3 w. ago Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the opening of new premises in St James’s.Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. “We’d sit down for dinner together every night, we’d go to church every Sunday, we’re polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Stealth artist sneaks AI portrait into museum saying 'I'm not asking permission'

Elias Marrow's 'guerilla art' was seen by hundreds before gallery bosses removed it, and he has also pulled off similar stunts in two more major museums - but one visitor wasn't impressed

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