Brief (but not brief enough to be forgotten because of its brevity)

Anonymous, Lot 55: Brief Encounter, Palazzina Cinese, 2018, 2018. Photo courtesy of Art on a Postcard.

The Weight of the World

Street artist Banksy is raffling one of his sculptures of a remote-control boat filled with refugees (titled How heavy it weighs), which featured in his “bemusement” theme park Dismaland, for a minimum donation of £2 ($2.50) to the charity Help Refugees, provided you can guess how much it weighs. It’s on display at the pop-up Help Refugees shop, 30 Fouberts Place, Carnaby Street, London until competition closes on December 22. Photo: Banksy (@banksy).

Deltiology

The artist and film director join refugees, schoolchildren and Syrian artists contributing work to mark five years of the Syrian humanitarian crisis with a British Red Cross postcard auction. [Read more].

• Syria’s got mail: Grayson Perry and Ken Loach's postcards for refugees – in pictures, The Guardian, March 15, 2016

© Dima Nachawi, Syrian artist
Artwork courtesy of British Red Cross

© Tamman Azzam, Syrian artist
Artwork courtesy of British Red Cross