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Ever since Raphael included Leonardo and Michelangelo in a crowd scene of one of his works, painters have had a fascination with depicting their peers, as a new exhibition revealsAs with all genres of art, portraiture has its own set of subgenres. Aside from the standard configuration of artist and...
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15 hours ago
This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertaintyOne day in 1484, strange men arrive at the Oxfordshire farm where 10-year-old John Collan lives. They’ve come to carry him away to a new...
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From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of the everyday is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards Continue reading...
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Mobeen is on a rescue mission to save his sister – can he pull it off? Plus: heaps of fun in the return of Taskmaster. Here’s what to watch this evening9.20pm, BBC ThreeGuz Khan returns for a fifth and final series of his hit comedy about a working-class Muslim former drug dealer trying to do good i...
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16 hours ago
Behind-the-scenes look at the TV juggernaut’s transformation into a theatrical spectacular, interactive acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil and a spellbinding tribute to Kneehigh are among this month’s highlightsIt’s almost 18 months since that neon Hawkins sign went up in Charing Cross Road but a long...
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New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messagesIt is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punctured the social strictures of 20th-century Britain, worked as a censor during the second world war.Bu...
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17 hours ago
Like The White Lotus without deaths, this brilliant tale of old college friends holidaying together is Fey’s finest work in years. Steve Carell and Colman Domingo are revelatoryIn my next life I am definitely coming back as an affluent American. Whatever the risk of being murdered in a White Lotus h...
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When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. We look back at spiders, splinters, sexual dependency and sunsetsFrances Morris, then head of displays Continue reading...
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20 hours ago
Aldeas – A New Story documentary to examine work of organisation pontiff founded to connect young people around the worldMartin Scorsese has made a documentary with the late Pope Francis that will feature conversations between the pontiff and Scorsese, including what the film-makers say was the pope...
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The latest planned building looks very similar to the image released 13 months ago, which was also called Derby MADE