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Artist hopes rare signed portrait of Churchill will fetch £1m at auction

05-05-2024 15:37

The wartime PM was so taken with Paul Trevillion’s work that he arranged a meeting to pay his compliments in personAt the age of 90, and with a successful career as a sports artist under his belt, there is one work of which Paul Trevillion is particularly proud. Perhaps surprisingly, it isn’t among his portraits of legendary stars such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Pelé, Muhammad Ali, George Best, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.It is an image of another of Trevillion’s heroes:

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Frank Stella obituary

05-05-2024 15:18

One of the most influentialUS abstractartistswho started out as a minimalist but constantly revinented his workIn February 2015, a pair of enormous stars, one in polished aluminium and the other unvarnished teak, appeared in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in London. These were by the American artist and honorary Academician Frank Stella, who has died aged 87.For all their differences, the two stars were part of a single work called, with deadpan literalness, Inflated Star and Wooden Star. Gi

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Doing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq

05-05-2024 13:00

Annual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflectionA buzz is building in the Bab al-Sharji neighbourhood in central Baghdad where preparations for an annual contemporary arts festival are underway. The city has long been considered one of the most dangerous in the world but artists in the Tarkib collective want to send a different message – that the capital is alive with creativity and culture.The event, which began when the collective was founded in 2015, compr

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Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

05-05-2024 10:00

British Museum, London
This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes, through hypnotic studies, his own words, and drawings that are prayers as much as picturesThe final section of the British Museum’s exhibition Michelangelo: The Last Decades is circular and enclosed. The walls are black and the light low. The feeling is of being in a small chapel: if a person was to speak in this space, they would surely whisper – t

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Frank Stella, influential American artist, dies aged 87

05-05-2024 02:45

His constantly evolving works have been hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movementsFrank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.Gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, who spoke with Stella’s family, confirmed his death to the Associated Press. Stella’s wife, Harriet McGurk, told t

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