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Christo's first major outdoor artwork in UK floats on London lake

A 20-meter (22-yard) high sculpture of an ancient Egyptian tomb, made from 7,506 red, white and mauve barrels, has taken temporary residence amid the aquatic wildlife on a lake in London's Hyde Park.

Living

Steady hands required: Japanese artist creates the tiniest sculptures

Kakuho Fujii's passion is to create tiny figures.

Cult

New perspective on Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

The exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum is called "Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up"

France

Vase found in a shoebox sells for €16 million

An 18th Century vase discovered in an attic has fetched €16.2 million at an auction in France.

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Netherlands

Giant poo sculptures prove 'contemporary art is not s***'

Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is displaying four giant sculptures of excrement by art collective Gelatin.

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Statuette of new Italian PM Conte made in Naples

Italy's new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, has joined the long list of political figures from around the globe to be made into statuettes by Neapolitan artisans to be used in unusual nativity scenes.

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MAXXI Bulgari Art prize exhibition opens

The work of the three finalists in the MAXXI Bulgari Art prize will go on display in Rome on Friday.

Switzerland

'Swiss Banksy' settles 40-year dispute with Zurich

Swiss artist Harald Naegeli, known as the "sprayer of Zurich", has ended a long-standing dispute with Zurich city council.

World News

Good news Friday!

Here's a roundup of some of the brightest stories from the week to cheer up your Friday:

Cult

A new exhibition in Paris

Despite spending more than 60 years painting in Paris, and considered by her home country as one of the greatest artists of her time, American Mary Cassatt has received little attention from the French art world. A new exhibition in Paris hopes to change this ...

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Tbilisi's first ever international art exhibition

Tbilisi art fair has 300 pieces of work from 30 galleries and 40 artisans from around the world and locally

World

Inspire Africa: Promoting a fabulous Africa

The days the world was told that Africa was a land marred with misery and violence may not be over, but that narrative surely is not the only one anymore.

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Newly discovered Rembrandt portrait on display

Bought for under 200,000 euros, the portrait is now thought to be worth millions

USA

Teen trains artificial intelligence to paint nude portraits — with surreal results

An American teenager has trained artificial intelligence (AI) to paint nude portraits, and tells Euronews he couldn’t be happier with the “strange and surreal” results.

USA

Modigliani nude fetches $157.2 million at Sotheby's auction

The painting gave Sotheby’s its highest price yet.

France

French locals in uproar over famous fort’s controversial circles

At first glance the yellow strips on a famous French fort look fake. But they're very much real and some locals are upset.

France

Paris museum opens its doors to nudists

Naturists described the development as a breakthrough in one of the world's cultural capitals

France

French Étienne Terrus museum discovers over half collection is fake

A French museum dedicated to painter Etienne Terrus has discovered around 82 articles in its collection are fakes.

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Lawyer turned Lego artist builds superheroes out of more than 2 million bricks

Tired of Wall Street, American lawyer Nathan Sawaya turned to lego and built a new life as an artist.

Belgium

Thieves escape with €2.2m gold artwork after 220kph chase

Thieves smashed into gallery before fleeing with police in chase.