A 20-year old man, Shakeel Massey, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for criminal damage after pleading guilty to attacking a Picasso painting at Tate Modern. The painting from 1944, titled Bust of a Woman, sustained significant damage after being repeatedly punched, causing the canvas to rip.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.