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Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter is threading her own path

As her stepmother makes a bid for the White House, Ella Emhoff’s yarn paintings are already racking up endorsements in New York

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Making a splat: Museum of London reveals new name and bird-themed identity

The curious changes come as the institution prepares to open in a fresh location

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Dames Tracey Emin and Sonia Boyce contribute works to save cash-strapped Quench

The Margate project space has supported 68 artists in the past four years, but is now “on the brink” of closure

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Mio dio—tourist gets amorous with Bacchus statue in Florence

Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi says though that the act is ‘non-erotic’

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Alfresco photography show honours Brummie giant of poetry, Benjamin Zephaniah

Public art display in Birmingham commemorates the city’s cultural icon

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Oscar Murillo to hand visitors the brush in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

The Turner Prize-winning artist is inviting the public to add their own markings to giant canvases in the space as part of a new commission

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Nicholas Cullinan's birthday gift for trustee Tracey Emin revealed

The new British Museum director revealed online that he commissioned the jaunty top especially

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Taylor Swift costume trail to wind through the galleries of the V&A

Sixteen 'looks' will be shown alongside instruments and music awards in a free display

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Calling festival goers to Gate 35—new airport installation takes off at Glastonbury

Artist Jordan Watson has created a Terminal experience exploring immigration

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Barefoot Kendall Jenner gets the Louvre to herself

Model roams the museum, taking in the Mona Lisa (alone)

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Jonathan Yeo paints UK ‘royalty’ again—broadcast king David Attenborough

The artist's scarlet-drenched depiction of King Charles III sparked debate last month

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‘I am pro Crocs’—British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan reveals all in quick-fire Instagram interview

Social media film puts new chief on the spot, highlighting his favourite object and guilty pleasure

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The art of presenting—TV anchor David Dimbleby turns his hand to curating

Broadcaster and his daughter select works by artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth Frink

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Tracey Emin, who made that bed, is made a dame

Other recipients in King Charles III’s birthday honours include the philanthropist Hannah Rothschild and sculptor Andrew Logan

Art Basel diary: arty eating, the joy of sobriety and desperately seeking eternal life

Plus our very own undercover gallerist gives us the lowdown from behind the scenes

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Mother of art patron Dasha Zhukova becomes the fifth Mrs Rupert Murdoch

Elena Zhukova, a former molecular biologist, married the billionaire media mogul on 1 June

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Did Delacroix take a Liberty? New book discusses how 19th-century artist boobed

Sarah Thornton's new publication—Tits Up: What Our Beliefs About Breasts Reveal About Life, Love, Sex and Society—ponders on bosoms in (art) history

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Yayoi Kusama London summer bonanza with new Elizabeth Line work and a Royal Parks pumpkin sculpture

A new Infinity Room will also go on show at Victoria Miro gallery in the autumn

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Artists embrace Studio Voltaire’s big birthday (whisper it—30)

The not-for-profit art space in south London has been pivotal for artists such as Phyllida Barlow and Charlotte Prodger

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Artists celebrate Taylor Swift in Liverpool’s Taylor Town

Art path around the city features 11 art installations representing the singer's albums

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(Another) royal portrait unveiled—Kate Middleton cover image goes viral

Polarising Tatler cover image of the Princess of Wales was created by Hannah Uzor

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Julian Assange miniature goes on show (unofficially) at the V&A

Hand-painted portraits of the WikiLeaks founder and his wife Stella were smuggled into a display case at the London museum in April

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A royal in red—King Charles III portrait unveiled

The work by Jonathan Yeo shows Charles wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards

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Sit on a sponsor? Maybe after visiting a sweeping show of British still lifes

A sofa company is supporting a new exhibition of Modern and contemporary still lifes at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, southern England