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Majority back British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade

New poll finds 53% of Britons support permanent exhibition on Britain’s role in slave trade at British Museum

The Guardian - UK

Banana Taped To A Wall Sells For $6.2 Mn In New York

A fresh banana taped to a wall -- a provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan -- was bought for $6.2 million on Wednesday by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at a New York auction, Sotheby's announced in a statement.

International Business Times

Banana duct-taped to wall bought at art auction for $6.2m by crypto mogul who plans to eat it

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun identified himself as the buyer, pledging to ‘personally eat the banana’

The Independent UK

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Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York

The Independent UK

Italian police seize Estruscan treasures stolen from ancient grave by amateur ‘tomb raiders’

Police recover urns, sarcophogi and other treasures worth at least €8m uncovered in Perugia

The Independent UK

Rosalie Williams obituary

Other lives: Painter and art lecturer who was also in demands as an ecclesiastical embroiderer

The Guardian - UK

Peter Higgins obituary

Other lives: Humane urologist in Stoke-on-Trent committed to improving the experience of patients in the NHS

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Liam Payne's Funeral: The Heartbreaking Images of His Family and His Son Bear's Message

Images of a white floral arrangement representing Payne's seven-year-old son were some of the saddest.

Latin Times

We stepped inside the Stedelijk Museum's newest addition in Amsterdam

Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum has unveiled its latest addition, the brand-new Don Quixote Sculpture Hall by Paul Cournet of Rotterdam creative agency Cloud

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Italian police seize Etruscan princesses’ treasures from suspected ‘tomb raiders’

Ancient beauty accessories, sarcophagi and urns recovered after illegal excavation in Umbria

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow School of Art: wrangles, delays and challenges of a faithful reconstruction ten years on

On December 8, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will open its doors to the public for the first time since fire raged through the 14th-century building in April 2019. It has taken just over five years to restore the cathedral – an extraordinary achievement. Scotland’s much-loved Glasgow School of Art,…

The Conversation

This Audemars Piguet Royal Oak puts a Kaws Companion behind the crystal

Fans of the artist Kaws will love this limited-run Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon

Mark Zuckerberg loves his wife? That’s nice – but let’s stop fawning over a guy who fawns over Trump

Meta’s ‘awkward dork’ boss has updated his haircut and his wardrobe – and shown the world how much family means to him. He’s still a billionaire with skeletons in the cupboard, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

In Helsinki, Pauline Curnier Jardin has created the grotesque amusement park of her dreams

French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin celebrates otherness at Kiasma, Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art

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The Guardian - UK

Prado show aims to highlight true colours of polychrome sculpture

Madrid exhibition intends to rescue the technique – coloured paint applied to statues – from centuries of indifference

International Business Times

'Operation Night Watch': Rembrandt Classic Gets Makeover

Shielded from the public by glass panels and staring intently through microscopes, a team of specialists has started work restoring Rembrandt's The Night Watch, one of the most iconic paintings of the Dutch golden age.

AAP

Up-and-coming artists start careers with a plan B

The latest crop of fine art graduates from RMIT University has much to say. But in a cost-of-living crisis they don't expect to make a living from art.

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A celestial New York exhibition showcases Roman and Williams’ mastery of lighting

Lauded design studio Roman and Williams is exhibiting 100 variations of its lighting ‘family tree’ inside a historic Tribeca space

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The Guardian - US

A Keith Haring carousel, a Basquiat ferris wheel: long-lost pop art carnival gets new life in New York

In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde ‘theme park’ in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrected

MusicRadar

Tame Impala's new instrument company reveals Orchid, a chord-generating keyboard designed to help "songwriters and musicians find what’s on their mind"

Telepathic Instruments gives us a closer look at its debut product - but what exactly is it?

The Guardian - UK

In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution

If it wants to build 1.5m homes, the government will sometimes need to be brave enough to reject local feeling – as it has done in Swale, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Explore a barn conversion with a difference on the Isle of Wight

Gianni Botsford Architects' barn conversion transforms two old farm buildings into an atmospheric residence and artistic retreat, The Old Byre

WhatToWatch

PBS debuts Ken Burns’ Leonardo da Vinci documentary tonight, November 18

One of history’s greatest minds gets the documentary treatment from Ken Burns. Here’s what you need to know about the PBS doc.

Al Jazeera

In Poland, where criticising Israel remains taboo, Gaza solidarity rises

A Polish artist is among those raising awareness about alleged atrocities committed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

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Architecture, sculpture and materials: female Lithuanian artists are celebrated in Nîmes

The Carré d'Art in Nîmes, France, spotlights the work of Aleksandra Kasuba and Marija Olšauskaitė, as part of a nationwide celebration of Lithuanian culture

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