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This Kazakhstani artist is building her own fantasy universe inspired by ritual and magic

Liubov Komarova’s art explores ritualistic and atmospheric storytelling.

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Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin

Mors Imperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state museum

The Guardian - UK

No, Timothée Chalamet, opera isn’t ‘dead’ – it’s been alive for centuries

Letters: Readers respond to Rebecca Humphries’s article about the actor’s much criticised comments on opera and ballet

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Matisse, 1941-1954 review – hit after glorious hit in a show of life-enhancing genius

An epic collection of the artist’s final 13 years of work explodes with the stunning colours and spiky cutouts that redefined art

The Guardian - UK

Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild – the week in art

Konrad Mägi is given his time to shine, Fiona Banner hits a word-picture high and Carrington takes over the home of Sigmund Freud

The Guardian - UK

This Magic The Gathering artist blends fantasy and spiritual influences with strong female characters

Kilart explores the relationship between characters and environments.

Creative Bloq

I’m tired of always paying for my friends on nights out. What can I do about it?

We all see money differently, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. If you want your friends to see it your way, you’ll have to communicate it

The Guardian - AU

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Homework till midnight and ‘one breakdown a week’: the mysterious art school keeping a forgotten style alive

Since 1892, a workshop in Brussels has taught aspiring painters the technique of trompe l’oeil. It’s brutal work, the artists say – so why do people travel from all around the world to master it?

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolutely transformative’: Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work

A Princeton University Art Museum show captures the urgent power of the iconic abstract expressionist’s 1945-50 breakthrough years

The Guardian - US

Banksy’s ‘unmasking’ changes absolutely nothing

ART: A new report has claimed to identify the famously secretive street artist. Louis Chilton asks whether some mysteries are better left unsolved

The Independent UK

‘Old masters too’: Ghent exhibition celebrates female artists of the baroque

Show in part a rediscovery of more than 40 mostly forgotten women who plied their trade in the Low Countries

The Guardian - UK

Banksy has been unmasked (again). But does this major Reuters investigation actually tell us something new?

British street artist’s ‘real’ name reported after an investigation stretching from Ukraine to New York and London. Kelly Burke explains all to Nick Miller

The Guardian - AU

Banksy 'unmasked': Famous street artist's real name 'revealed in court papers'

Court and police documents from 2000 have led to confirmation of Banksy’s identity, an investigation has claimed

Evening Standard

New York hip-hop experimentalist Elucid: ‘I like the harmony of the city. Everybody’s got a little solo’

From a pocket of Zen in the Dream House installation, the rapper/producer talks about channelling the city’s perpetual din, whether solo or with Billy Woods as Armand Hammer

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‘People say: be quiet and make your music’: avant-pop star Mary Ocher on her vociferous politics – and leaving Israel behind

Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Ocher rejected the IDF draft for a life in Germany. As she releases an album inspired by the Weimar period, she discusses nationalism, AI and the future of humanity

The Independent UK

Tate to feature first Monet exhibition as organisation announces 2027 exhibition programme

Next year will also see the arts organisation celebrate David Hockney’s 90th birthday and the reopening of the Tate Liverpool

The Guardian - UK

Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige review – how two Japanese masters reinvented art

Hokusai’s breathtaking woodblock print may be ubiquitous today but, as this startling show reminds us, it’s also an apocalyptic vision of a world about to change

The Guardian - AU

Chris Minns and Jewish groups condemn ‘horrid rhetoric’ from DJ at opening night of Sydney Biennale

US-based Zubeyda Muzeyyen, AKA DJ Haram, claimed a ‘Zio-Australian-Epstein empire’ was responsible for silencing dissenters

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Police probe ‘death to IDF’ chant led by Bobby Vylan at Al Quds Day protest

The Met said 12 arrests were made amid a protest and counter-protest on Sunday.

The Guardian - US

Chaos outside Mamdani’s home brings terror charges for ‘IS-inspired’ teens – and host of questions

Suspects accused of throwing explosive devices at rightwing anti-Islam protesters as tensions rise across US

The Guardian - UK

Edvard Munch’s formative influence on Paula Rego revealed in unearthed painting

‘It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,’ wrote a 16-year-old Rego to her mother after seeing a Munch exhibition in London in 1951

The Guardian - AU

The moment I knew: I was enchanted by her painting but we never spoke. I wouldn’t see her again for 55 years

In primary school, Larry Garner knew little about the classmate behind a mesmerising artwork of a ship. He often wondered about ‘galleon girl’

The Times of India

How Ukraine trip unravelled Banksy's 'true identity'

For decades, the art world pondered the identity of Banksy, the anonymous street artist. Patient reporting, tracing clues from Bristol to Ukraine and a New York police file, revealed Robin Gunningham as the likely individual behind the iconic stencils. This discovery, while dismantling a myth, underscores the power of anonymity…

The Independent UK

Inclusion of Russia in 2026 Venice Biennale art fair sparks outcry

The inclusion of Russia in the line-up of the 2026 Venice Biennale art fair has sparked international outcry

AAP

Days from closure, artists raise a glass to design shop

Artists are marking the imminent closure of the Australian Design Centre's object shop. The centre as a whole is shutting down after losing government funding.

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