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Studio Voltaire, LondonFrom Tom’s pert-bottomed hunks to Cook’s curvacious ladies, both artists wanted to give pleasure‘Hate the politics, love the uniform,” would pretty much sum up Touko Valio Laaksonen’s attitude towards the Wehrmacht soldiers he...
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His studio was flattened, he has had to move his family 10 times, and they now share a house with 25 others. But still Maisara Baroud finds a way to document the fear and destruction he sees all aroundFor years, I have been used to drawing daily and...
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Guardian-commissioned portrait of abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond among works competing for £25,000 prizeClaudette Johnson has been nominated for this year’s Turner prize for her work, which includes a portrait of the African-American slavery abolit...
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A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century lifeThe women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one...
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Artworks and Beatles ephemera including an incomplete novel about Lennon among work by visual artist and bass player who died aged 21The archive of Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist with the Beatles, is up for sale, featuring more than 400 paint...