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New research finally unlocks the mystery of the iconic painting’s surreal sky: an unusual sighting of ‘mother of pearl’ clouds

‘Should the exit be chaotic, it is hard to see global public opinion remaining buoyant,’ the Soft Power 30 report’s authors warn

Katharina Cibulka has stitched ‘As long as the art market is a boys’ club, I will be a feminist,’ across her alma mater’s facade

‘I’m plumping for people power. The Creative Commons spoke!’ the Turner Prize-winning artist says

In further news: Creative Scotland chief executive quits; Pussy Riot jailed for World Cup protest; Colosseum rejects Beyoncé 

The online petition organized by Green Party MPs warns that far-right politics across the continent has dangerous implications for the arts

Portrait of Timothée Chalamet as art history muse, and anyone for some Handmaid’s Tale-themed wine? All the latest in art world madness

Ben Eine (real name Benjamin Flynn) – a favourite of Samantha Cameron – punched his girlfriend in the face at London’s Serpentine Gallery

The Compound in the South Bronx will open with a show of legendary hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion

In further news: Brexit voters avoid arts; New York libraries’s culture pass unlocks museums; Grayson Perry-backed artists’s housing wins approval 

Tel Aviv’s 1:1 Center for Art and Politics is intentionally exhibiting work by contemporary Arab artists without permission or attribution

The punk activist-artists have been charged with disruption after they charged the field during the France vs Croatia match

27 educators are taking the London gallery to an employment tribunal, demanding that they be recognized as employees

In further news: Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt; Philadelphia Museum of Art gets a Frank Gehry-designed restaurant

Josephine Meckseper’s paint-spattered flag was the last installment in Creative Time’s ‘Pledges of Allegiance’ series of protest banners

Anderson and partner Juman Malouf are sorting through the treasures of the celebrated Kunsthistorisches Museum for their first show

The gallery’s anniversary celebrations include reduced tickets to its landmark Lee Bul exhibition

In further news: the Met post record attendance despite new admission charge; New Museum Triennial 2021 curators announced

From Capote to Basquiat, the pop artist’s glittering ‘visual diary’ of the last years of his life is seen for the first time

Nikki Columbus claims that the museum rescinded the offer to be their curator of performance on discovering she was a new mother