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As part of a new campaign, David Hockney is encouraging the nation to get drawing

The Art Newspaper

The artist's Draw! project is part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

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Italian Renaissance drawings show at Buckingham Palace includes Titian study never seen in Britain

The Art Newspaper

Works by Raphael and Leonardo will also be featured in the London exhibition, which aims to reconsider artists of the period as draughtsmen, in addition to painters or sculptors

Drawings 354
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Another object has been stolen from the British Museum—but this time by an artist

The Art Newspaper

Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum's collection

Drawings 357
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‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80

The Art Newspaper

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

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George Grosz drawings, once at the heart of a protracted trial, acquired by Berlin’s Akademie der Künste

The Art Newspaper

The German artist was charged with “publicly insulting the institutions of the Christian churches”

Drawings 321
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A new volume explores the intimate art of drawing, as seen through a wider lens

The Art Newspaper

This alternative history navigates the medium through artists on the margins, as well as established practitioners

Drawings 261
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Conservation work on Tintoretto’s ‘Crucifixion’ reveals traces of elaborate draughting grids

The Art Newspaper

The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers

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