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Ring in the New Year with Patti Smith performance on Piccadilly Lights screen

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Damien Hirst in his own words—artist presents walk-through tour of his early works on Instagram

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As Jupiter and Saturn kiss, slow down this Winter Solstice with Serpentine Galleries’ stress-busting sound work

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Mary, Joseph.... and Darth Vader? Vatican's sci-fi-esque nativity scene raises eyebrows

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Shining a light in 2020—Nathan Coley’s new text sculpture illuminates Liverpool

Portraits of local heroes go on show at London's Kings Cross

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Abso-lot-ely fabulous: Joanna Lumley tries out her auctioneering skills at Christie’s

Star sold seven illustrations in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity

Jeremy Deller marks World Human Rights Day with UK-wide poster campaign

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Visit Mañanaland today: Pedro Reyes's utopian vision plays out through an AR scavenger hunt

The artist Pedro Reyes offers a peek at a future where threats such as health crises, climate disasters, social division and nuclear destruction are far behind us

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Freelands awards MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard £100,000—and releases annual report highlighting art world's glaring gender discrepancies

Grizedale launches campaign to turn historic Lake District pub into rural arts centre

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V&A acquires Harry Styles’s TikTok-trending multicoloured patchwork cardigan

Southbank Centre's outdoor lights show offers glittering festive cheer—but scant comfort to its redundant workers

Phyllida Barlow hosts virtual pyjama party for Contemporary Art Society's fundraising dinner

Mark Titchner's 'carnivalesque' posters deliver optimistic rallying cry to locked down London

Francis Bacon's legacy continued by new unconventional publishing company

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Rent a sculpture from this London gallery for lockdown 2.0

While its gallery is closed, Pangolin is offering works by artists including Lynn Chadwick to UK clients to take home until January

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Ed Sheeran is selling his Lego set—and his art

The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia

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Woof! Jeff Koons’s Puppy at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao gets its own flowery face mask

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Wear the art—charity t-shirt pieces by Wolfgang Tillmans, Linder and Sunil Gupta go on sale for £30

Séances and spiritual awakenings abound in travelling exhibition exploring the 'artist as medium'

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Royal Academicians band together to release portfolio of prints made in the midst of lockdown

'Boris u r a poo!': nation's children submit letters to prime minister for exhibition at London's Foundling Museum

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launch public art exhibition showing portraits of a nation in lockdown

'Gorgeous, repellent, savagely erotic': Polly Morgan slithers into our subconscious at London's Bomb Factory

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Just an illusion? Trickster Derren Brown paints David Attenborough

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Frieze Week treats from Sarabande's new gallery space to Damien Hirst's sweet Saatchi memories

Fiona Banner's 1.5 tonne sculpture protesting industrial fishing removed by UK government

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Which US museums will show John Oliver's rat erotica and Wendy Williams pork chop portrait?