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DEADLINE 31 Oct for DCAD Pottery & Ceramics Design Residency Program – Apply for a six-month residency in pottery and ceramics in Abu Dhabi – up to 15 places available, all show created work in a capstone exhibition, best go on to an internship in Italy tinyurl.com/3zvwrcpw...
DEADLINE 31 Oct for Design Doha Prize – QAR 200,000 winners in each of four categories for MENASA designers tinyurl.com/4ct9vc7t...
DEADLINE 31 Oct for Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS13) – Apply to be one of four artists selected to develop a photographic series that will be shown at VPS13 (July 2026) tinyurl.com/48pwrutz...
Katy Hessel's picks for women artists at Art Basel Paris tinyurl.com/yb53zead...
One more plus for Jane Austen: how Austen’s fictional geographies – landscapes, cities, seaside resorts, country estates – flagged up women’s freedoms, reputations and choices. Start of an interesting discussion?
How Jane Austen’s landscapes mapped women’s lives
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
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Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists (pays €325 per week – about 2/3 the basic living wage) will be made permanent and opened to 2,000 new entrants from Sept next year, with plans for incremental growth in the future tinyurl.com/mwnyh3xv...
Why don’t people prepare for death when it’s the only guarantee in life? 10 sensible things you should do before you die tinyurl.com/y97sczdj...
A 59-flat complex in Bermondsey designed to combat loneliness in older people has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. The judges said it “sets an ambitious standard for social housing among older people”. tinyurl.com/4mwszny3...
Bonhams has been sold to European private credit firm Pemberton Asset Management for an undisclosed sum. The auction house group's global CEO Chabi Nouri and chief commercial officer Céline Assimon have both left
Bonhams Auction House Sold To Pemberton Asset Management
Bonhams, one of the world’s oldest auction houses, has changed hands once again, raising questions about the viability of the auction group...
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Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew around 90,000 visitors from 108 countries. Dealers reported steady buying and strong institutional interest; and the atmosphere was genuinely buzzy, in our opinion, after a couple of rather dull years
Frieze London 2025: What Sold And What The Dealers Said - Report
This year's Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew an estimated 90,000 visitors from 108 countries........................
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Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew around 90,000 visitors from 108 countries. Dealers reported steady buying and strong institutional interest; and the atmosphere was genuinely buzzy, in our opinion, after a couple of rather rather dull years
Frieze London 2025: What Sold And What The Dealers Said - Report
This year's Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew an estimated 90,000 visitors from 108 countries........................
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Typically meaty, measured, authoritative assessment by Melissa Gronlund of the Gulf art scene today for ARTnews. Real journalism, based on interviews, quotable contacts, and the kind of all round view you get from being on the ground
The Gulf Art Scene Is Showing Its Global Force
With a Sotheby’s auction in Saudi Arabia, a Guggenheim going up in Abu Dhabi, and Art Basel landing in Qatar, the Gulf art scene is showing its global force.
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Yes, Ikea has a museum – and its website includes every catalogue back to 1950. Spoiler alert: it wasn't always at the cutting edge of domestic design ... tinyurl.com/45bzukz3...
An imperfect but entertaining amble through some of the key colours of art from ochre to lapis lazuli. Stephanie Krzywonos reveals how colours hold stories of both lightness and darkness ...
Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos
From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
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I Am Not A Robot: Neal Agarwal's latest Fun Internet Thing invites you to prove your humanity in the face of an increasingly sceptical set of CAPTCHAs
I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
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Noivemebr sees the last ever Abu Dhabi Art before it becomes Frieze Abu Dhabi. What does it mean for the Gulf art ecosystem? Magpie opines ... tinyurl.com/55c855d8...
An interactive version of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1559 painting Nederlandse Spreekwoorden – illustrations of 100+ proverbs in Dutch bruegel.analog.is/?u...
The Oatmeal on AI art. "When I consume Al art, it also evokes a feeling ... until I find out that it's Al art. Then I feel deflated, grossed out, and maybe a little bit bored. This feeling isn't a choice"
A cartoonist's review of AI art
This is a comic about AI art.
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Submit electronic new media and “emerging artworks” to be exhibited at International Symposium of Electronic Art (Dubai, 10-17 April 2026). Deadline 26 November tinyurl.com/59vs9jea...