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Social media goes "Gigi" for Hadid cover on Vogue Arabia

American lifestyle and fashion magazine Vogue this week launched its first-ever Arabic issue and fashion supermodel Gigi Hadid features on its cover

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Landmark exhibition of the major works of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer at the Louvre

A landmark exhibition of the major works of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer has opened.

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The Best of Arts and Culture in Europe and the world

From Italy to Indonesia, here’s our special selection of some of the finest arts and cultural shows now.

France

One hard act to follow - French artist Abraham Poincheval entombed in a rock for a week

You may think it is a cracking story, or the man at the centre of it is just cracked, but it is definitely one hard act to follow.

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Beauty from bombs - An Iraqi artist makes the most of the detritus of war

Iraq is a vast graveyard for spent munitions and abandoned military hardware. Now one Iraqi artist is making art from the debris of war.

Netherlands

Moments after murder: striking image wins photography prize

Photograph of assassin standing by his lifeless victim in art gallery in Turkey wins prize

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Photo Pictures which have been re-staged by film photographers for the stills camera on a film set are on show at an exhibition at the Albertina Museum in…

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The Royal Academy in London marks 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution

A momentous period in Russian history is on show in an exhibition at The Royal Academy in London.

Italy

'Mafia art collection' on display in southern Italy

It is no ordinary exhibition…because the precious paintings featured all belonged to an art-loving mobster!

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New chapter: world's first ice library launched in Russia

The first ice library in the world was launched in Baikalsk, Russia.

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Trump in dill, a fruity Lady Gaga and a Monarch in oatmeal, Pavlo Bondar is a food artist

Food artist Pavlo Bondar creates Trump out of dill

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Art and Cinema, Dimitrije Popovic and Transmedia in Rendez-vous

Explore European culture in Rendez-vous

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Geneva art fair 2017

The Geneva Art Fair, or Artgenève is an art exhibition, which aims to establish an artistic platform in French-speaking Switzerland.

United Kingdom

RIP Sir John Hurt acclaimed British actor dies at 77

Acclaimed British actor Sir John Hurt dies at 77

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Aussie impressionists Impressionism is not the preserve of the French or indeed Europeans.

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London gallery hosting 'first history of the selfie exhibition'

The first exhibition to explore the history of the selfie opens at a London art venue this spring.

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The Art of Gesture in London The 40-year-old London International Mime Festival is the longest running of its kind.

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Bear uses paws as paintbrush

An exhibition has opened in Helsinki by an artist with a difference.

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Robert Wilson lights up the Panza Collection at its home near Milan

The Panza collection is one of Europe's most important post-war treasure troves of art, and American artist Robert Wilson has been called in to light the pieces in a show at the collection's home, the

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Europe's first underwater museum opens in Lanzarote

British artist Jason DeCaires Taylor has created what is the first underwater museum in Europe.