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Rediscovered chalk drawing of child attributed to Édouard Manet

Exclusive: Work, whose subject resembles street urchin in masterpiece by artist, chanced upon in private collectionA red chalk drawing of a crouching child, spotted in a private Italian collection, has been attributed by an art historian to the French modernist painter Édouard Manet.The child, whose identity has yet to be established, resembles a street urchin in the Manet masterpiece The Old Musician, in which he sought to show the humanity of homeless and marginalised people. Continue reading...

Dalya AlbergeÉdouard ManetArt and design

GuardianSep 27Preview

‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answerCape Town’s city council has said it will “imminently” round up two baboon troops coming into repeated conflict with residents. The animals will be sterilised and permanently moved to a newly constructed sanctuary. The plan has been fiercely criticised by animal rights activists, who say the monkeys should remain roaming freely, and that less destructive options have not been properly considered.Cape Town’s baboon problem has been brewing since the 2000s, after the city stopped culling troops in the late 1990s after pressure from the public. But in the past two years it has reached boiling point. A 2025 census found that the population had grown by a third since 2000, from 360 baboons to 493, now living in 12 managed troops. Continue reading...

Gloria DickieAnimal welfareSouth Africa