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37 hours ago

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Royal Academy, London
The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh mig…

50 days ago

Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

The unnamed narrator of William Rayfet Hunter’s debut novel, a mixed-race aspiring musician from…

54 days ago

‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins

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62 days ago

2 months ago

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Wallace Collection, London
Artworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more strai…

3 months ago

‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling…

Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the po…

Castles in the sky: the fantastical drawings of author Victor Hugo – in pictures

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Although better known for his sprawling Romantic novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, celebrated French author Victor Hugo spent much of his time drawing. A collection of about 70 o…

4 months ago

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