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Sámi artist network wins Munch prize focused on freedom of expression
The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu, whose co-founder’s work recently filled the Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall, has won this year’s Munch Award dedicated to artistic freedom of expression. The group will receive NOK 300,000 (around £24,000). Dáiddadállu comprises an administration and 22 artist partners, whose multimedia work spans theatre, music, visual art and joik, a traditional form of Sámi singing.
British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry
The British Museum (BM) has banned visitors from taking photographs of the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, after concerns the habit was causing delays for others who were trying to see the work. The 70m-long embroidery is on loan to the United Kingdom for the first time since it was created nearly 1,000 years ago, in a special exhibition that has drawn unprecedented levels of interest.
Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonzalez-Torres—podcast
After years of civil war and continuity violence, Yemen’s heritage has suffered hugely, with buildings damaged across the country and antiquities looted. Yet across the country, there is a determination to protect and restore its historical landmarks and cultures. Ben Luke speaks to Melissa Gronlund, one of The Art Newspaper’s reporters on the Middle East, about these efforts. At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the exhibition American Icon: The US Flag in Art opens this weekend.
Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper Johns in Bilbao—podcast
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has faced unprecedented scrutiny and government interference since President Trump came to power. Now, its long cherished plans for a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in D.C. have been dealt a blow because the US House of Representatives has struck down a bill to build the museum.
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London—podcast
Three artists who in different ways connect to the Surrealist movement are the subject of this week’s podcast. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first major US survey of the full career of Marcel Duchamp since 1973 opens this weekend, before travelling later in the year to Philadelphia. Ben Luke talks to its curators at MoMA, Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo.
The Year Ahead 2026: the big exhibitions and the key museum openings-podcast
In the first episode of 2026 we look ahead at the next 12 months with a guide to big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions. Ben Luke is joined by Jane Morris, editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper and Cultureshock, and Gareth Harris, chief contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, to discuss the key art fairs, major museum building projects and the top biennials of the year. Ben, Jane and Gareth also pick their exhibition highlights for the year.
4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum
An Ancient Egyptian handprint dating back around 4,000 years has been found on an artefact at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. Researchers working on the museum’s forthcoming show Made in Ancient Egypt (3 October-12 April 2026) made the discovery on the base of a “soul house”—a model of a building rendered in clay. “Soul houses” date back to Egypt’s First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (around 2055 BC–1650 BC), and are often found at burial sites.
Identifying Daytime Hypercapnia Using Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
1 Introduction The most common cause of death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is respiratory failure due to respiratory muscle weakness causing hypoventilation and subsequent respiratory complications [1, 2]. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) can treat hypoventilation; has been shown to prolong survival and improve quality of life in small, randomized controlled trials [3, 4] and large retrospective studies [5-7]; and may be associated with slowing of disease progression [5].
Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion
A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI The Week in Art From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System | PNS Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Greg Afinogenov · Frost-tempered: Russia in Central Asia
It’s a crowded field, but the most unsubtle of all 19th-century Russian paintings might be Vasily Vereshchagin’s 1871 canvas The Apotheosis of War. In an arid landscape, a towering pyramid of human skulls is being picked over by crows, with ruined Islamicate architecture in the background. This heavy-metal album cover avant la lettre was dedicated ‘to all great conquerors, past, present and future’. But to which conquerors was Vereshchagin alluding?
The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution
The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz.
Were the operators of the leisure park to blame for the quad bike accident involving a child? Which case won?
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Central Asia and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Look at the Balance Sheet at the Centennial
Although it happened thousands of miles away, and did not reflect any of the local political currents at work in 1917, the October Revolution had a profound impact on Central Asia. The Soviet system, while brutal and callously profligate with human life, was not simply a continuation of Russian colonialism in another form.
Stalin’s Giant Pencil: Debunking a Myth About Central Asia’s Borders
Few parts of the world are the subject of as much sustained journalistic ignorance as Central Asia. News from what are patronizingly known as the “stans” rarely makes it into mainstream news outlets, except in connection to Islamic terrorism, authoritarianism, and ethnic and religious tensions. While all three are certainly problems in Central Asia, these “discourses of danger” crowd out any nuance or perspective from much reporting and supposedly “strategic” analysis.
Russia’s Colonial Allergy
“The history of Russia is the history of a country that colonizes itself.” This phrase, first coined by the historian Sergei Solov’ev in the 1840s, gained widespread currency thanks to Vasilii Kliuchevskii’s Course of Russian History, first published in 1911 and still popular today. It remains one of the best-known aphorisms about Russian history.
My 350 on BREXIT: This spells the end of Britishness
The rise and fall of Britishness shows that apparently ancient and stable European identities can be as recent, contingent, fragile and transient as any in the formerly colonised world. It is something which the Brexit vote has thrown into sharp relief, because it will probably lead to the end of the United Kingdom. It was the existence of the British Empire, and the benefits they gained from it that made Scots, Welsh and Irish want to be British in the first place.
Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years-purchasing bronze installation for £176,500
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it. September 13, 2024
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