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Vatican begins 5-year restoration of Raphael Loggia, used by popes and presidents

One of the most intricately decorated parts of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, a passageway walked by popes and presidents and attributed to Renaissance master Raphael, is getting its first face-lift in 500 years

The Independent UK

Four Churchill boxes expected to fetch up to £215,000 at auction

The pieces will be sold next week in Christie’s Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures.

Evening Standard

Art galleries at prisons showcase inmates’ work in an effort to combat violence

Artwork produced through the program is sold to the public and sometimes fetches $120

The Independent UK

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First of its kind queer museum in San Francisco Chinatown amplifies Chinese LGBTQ+ artists

A recently opened, first of its kind Chinese queer museum in San Francisco is already having an impact on the surrounding community

The Independent UK

‘A new world has been opened up’: how a London street got filled with art – and brought the neighbours together

From a mural in a baby’s bedroom to a sound sculpture designed to be played out of a convertible, top contemporary artists rose to the challenge of making work for one lucky community

The Guardian - UK

The reason why Tate’s blockbuster Frida Kahlo show has so few works by the Mexican artist

ART: The major summer show looks at how Kahlo has become an icon, writes Annabel Nugent, and it’s something that a leading feminist art historian says the painter actually initiated herself

The Independent UK

These boots were made for walking! But who wore them? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz

In the third of five quizzes, curators at the Box Plymouth set 10 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collections

The Guardian - UK

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Peter Murrell showed no reaction as his sentence was imposed

The former SNP chief executive was sentenced in front of a packed public gallery at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning.

Evening Standard

Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough

The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord – but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

Turner winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’

The Guardian - UK

Spectacular archaeological find uncovers new remnants of the 1775 Bunker Hill battle

A gun flint and musket balls were found at the site

The Independent UK

Ancient hidden passage in China showcases the pinnacle of Chinese rock art and a rare blend of three faiths

A narrow stone corridor cut directly into a cliff face in south-western China continues to astonish visitors centuries after it was created. Hidden within the vast complex of the Dazu Rock Carvings, the passage is lined with towering figures sculpted into the living rock, creating the impression of walking through…

The Times of India

Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists?

The Guardian - UK

From a Shakespeare First Folio to Bowie’s handwriting: inside Mona’s new $100m library of 30,000 books

After 10 years of planning, four years of construction and a budget that blew out almost 10 times over, Phrontisterion is finally open in Hobart

The Guardian - AU

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Weaving, memory entwine at Bangkok Kunsthalle

Four contemporary artists unveil what lies beneath craftsmanship during "Weaving Matter And Memory", which is running at Bangkok Kunsthalle until July 5.

AAP

Just two people attend David Hockney's private funeral

The majority of David Hockney's artworks will be given to foundations and public institutions around the world "in furtherance of his legacy".

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners

Artist had requested only his partner and great-nephew attend, with memorial services planned in places he lived

The Guardian - UK

From the US-Mexico border to protests in Poland: highlights of PhotoEspaña 2026

Spain’s leading festival of photography showcases the work of more than 300 visual artists in nearly 100 exhibitions across the country

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Why drawing dragons can be such a rewarding creative exercise

Concept artist Javier Franco Santacreu explains how he creates a powerful pose.

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: For the beloved Ash Dome, death is not the end

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: This living sculpture, planted in the 1970s ‘for the 21st century’, is fading fast. But heartbreak is not the only response

AAP

Impressionist champion inspires gallery's biggest show

An exhibition looks at the legacy of visionary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who risked everything to promote impressionist artists.

Bangkok Post

All kinds of everything

If it were not for a floral sculpture at a restaurant's entrance, people would have missed all the artworks. From shelves to corners, they camouflage quietly among furnishings. And the artist is no exception. Outfitted in a monochrome checkerboard dress, Prem Buachum blended with the background of a tearoom.

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney remembered

Letters: Harriet Gibson recalls an eye-opening encounter with the artist, while Andrew Keeley talks about the influence of California on his work, and Christine Hayes recalls his ‘letter’ to the Guardian about smoking

The Guardian - US

New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure

‘We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads

The Guardian - UK

Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry

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