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• Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m

  21-09-2023 13:47
  
  Minneapolis gallery puts A Walk in the Woods, the first of over 400 paintings Ross produced for The Joy of Painting, up for saleBob Ross was an artist who brought painting to the people, his works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half-hour with little more than a large bristle brush, a putty knife and plenty of encouragement. It is unlikely he would have envisioned one of his works going up for sale for nearly $10m.But that is the price a Minneapolis gallery is now asking for A Walk in t
  
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• ‘Why are 500,000 people watching paint dry?’ The man behind YouTube’s DIY sensation

  21-09-2023 10:00
  
  Martijn Doolaard has released 83 videos documenting his restoration of an Alpine cabin. They are slow, quiet, uneventful – and hugely successful. He explains his secretOn 5 October 2021, Martijn Doolaard came home. Not to a flat in Amsterdam, where the Dutch graphic designer turned videographer and travel writer had lived before embarking on the epic road trips that made him internet famous, but to two Alpine stone cabins in the Italian Piedmont region.“Always dreamed of having my ow
  
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• Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war paintings – in pictures

  21-09-2023 08:00
  
  Inside the former Wismut mining company in Germany are thousands of artworks, painted while the company secretly mined uranium for Soviet atomic bombs Continue reading...
  
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• My cultural day out on the Sussex Art Shuttle

  21-09-2023 08:00
  
  With next week’s Turner prize opening in Eastbourne, we try a hop-on, hop-off bus service that takes art lovers around the area’s cultural hotspotsI’m on a bus, hurtling over the hills at exhilarating speed. An oxbow lake flashes into view: while geography was never a passion, the sharp curves of the meandering river as it reaches the sea at Cuckmere Haven demand my full attention. The arresting view has featured in paintings by Eric Ravilious as well as a Hollywood film or two
  
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• ‘When you say you are Roma, you have to work twice as hard’: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, outsider at the heart of Polish art

  21-09-2023 06:00
  
  Her dazzling textile works caused a sensation at Europe’s two most important art events. Mirga-Tas talks about defying centuries of anti-Roma prejudice – and turning her mother’s old dresses into art Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is the sort of person who hugs a visitor even before she says hello. She welcomes me into her home in the village of Czarna Góra, at the foot of the Tatra mountains in southern Poland, with a high-wattage smile. The artist’s house is right nex
  
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