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Exhibition of the Week: Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings, Tate Liverpool
Saturday 30 June 2012
Mix and match has become quite the thing for museum. Turner has been placed alongside Claude and Whistler; Monet alongside Turner; Cy Twombly, the American abstract artist, with Poussin. Tate Liverpool combines all three.
Tate will give big shows to Lowry and Lichtenstein
Thursday 10 May 2012
The Tate Modern is to stage the first major exhibition devoted to Roy Lichtenstein next year.
Mona Lisa copy was painted by Leonardo's pupil
Thursday 02 February 2012
The Mona Lisa at the Prado in Madrid was thought to be just another fine copy, with added eyebrows and an odd black background.
Ben Nicholson exhibition
Tuesday 12 October 1993
Staff at the Tate Gallery in London hanging Painted Relief 1939, by Ben Nicholson, in preparation for tomorrow's opening of an exhibition of works by the artist, who died in 1982.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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