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Artemisia Gentileschi's baroque nude portrait to be digitally unveiled

High-tech digital detective work combined with good fortune and lots of patience will help restorers to uncover a major work by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most prominent woman in the history of Italian art.

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Rendez-vous: The best of culture and arts in Europe

At the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, a retrospective of an artist who was close to Picasso. In Madrid, an imersive Picasso show in total darkness and in Milan, five exceptional paintings by Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch.

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Madrid immersive exhibition brings to life the work of Pablo Picasso

A new immersive exhibition titled Imagine Picasso is reimagining the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso through giant light projections

Art

Interview: Stephen Tayo's depiction of the "broken English" of Lagos

The new exhibition Human Stories: The Satirists in London has six artists transcend stereotypes and tropes to tell a unique worldview.

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Artworks stolen by the Nazis go on display in new exhibition in France

In Strasbourg, an exhibition brings together 27 artworks looted by Nazi Germany and repatriated in 1945, in the hope of one day, being able to return them to their rightful owners or their descendants

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Black creativity celebrated at London’s Saatchi Gallery

In London’s Saatchi Gallery, "The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion" focuses on Black portraiture.

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Exhibition displays art for everyone at Giza necropolis

Exhibition displays art for everyone at Giza necropolis

Art

Rendez-vous: The best of Europe's art and culture

Immerse yourself in Afrobeat in Paris, discover links between magic and surrealism at the Museum Barberini in Germany or discover the Guggenheim museum in Spain during its 25th anniversary and see three collections of its treasures.

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Gaddafi-inspired artwork wins prestigious MAXXI art prize

An art piece inspired by the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's visit to Italy in 2009 has won the prestigious MAXXI Bulgari Prize

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Sculptures and sports history provide backdrop to Qatar World Cup

In partnership with Media City

The Qatar World Cup is now just weeks away and more than a million visitors are expected to travel to the tournament. To welcome the fans, an exhibition all about football has opened in one of the world's largest sports museums.

Design

Searching for the Eternal: Celebrating the art of painting on stone

A new exhibition in Rome explores painters from the 17th century who used stone instead of canvas after numerous works of art were looted during invasions. They sought to make their art last forever.

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"Music as a weapon": Paris honours Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti

The Paris Philharmonic is devoting an immersive exhibition to the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat in the 1970s, who "had a real love affair with France."

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King of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, honoured in Paris

The Paris Philharmonic is devoting an immersive exhibition to the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat in the 1970s

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Former Yugoslav nuclear bunker is now an art gallery

The ARK D-O art gallery in the southern Bosnian town of Konjic started life as a nuclear bunker. Now it's once again being seen as a place to shelter in the case of a nuclear strike. But officials say it's not able to withstand modern nuclear weapons.

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Rendez-vous: the best of art and culture in Europe

Discover the power of hieroglyphs at the British Museum, the power of cinema at Berlin's Human Rights film festival and take a journey through life and death with the artist, Fabienne Verdier.

Design

'Objects of Desire': How did Surrealism influence design?

For the first time in a major UK exhibition, Surrealism’s relationship to the design world is told up to the present day.

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When Coco met Pablo - How did Chanel and Picasso influence each other?

A new exhibition in Spain reveals the close relationship between the Cubist art superstar Pablo Picasso and grande dame of fashion Gabrielle "Coco"Chanel.

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Damien Hirst burns paintings in quest for essence of art

In a rare and bold move, British artist Damien Hirst has burnt hundreds of his paintings that sold in NFT form in a bid to reveal the real essence of his work.

Art

Italy's first Max Ernst retrospective exhibition opens in Milan

A 400-piece collection dedicated to the late surrealist artist has been curated by Jurgen Pech and Martina Mazzotta and opens at Milan's Royal Palace Museum.

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Video games and museums: a match made in (Italian) heaven

‘Father and Son’ is the first video game produced by a museum. Thought to be the first of its kind, gamers and visitors to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) can take a digital trip back in time.