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Charles Darwent on Jockum Nordström's All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again: The bottom line of beauty
Sunday 28 July 2013
Swedish artist's drawings, collages and sculptures are wilfully naive but deceptively sophisticated
In pictures: England cricket team draw sketches of each other - with mixed results
Thursday 25 July 2013
The drawings are being auctioned on eBay for charity
Art review: The Lyons Teashops Lithographs: Art in a Time of Austerity 1946-55, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Lyons teashops were the Starbucks of their day. In the aftermath of war, the management of the restaurant chain (the last one closed its doors in 1981) was faced with a pressing challenge: how to enliven dingy and often war-scarred interiors up and down the country without spending a fortune.
Technology in royal fashion: New Paper app designed for Fashion Rules exhibition at Kensington Palace
Monday 22 July 2013
The exhibition at Kensington Palace introduces iPads, wi-fi and a new level of interactivity- including a specially designed version of Paper app
From Grapefruit to Acorn: Yoko Ono publishes book of 'instructional poems'
Wednesday 03 July 2013
Nearly 50 years after writing the conceptual art book Grapefruit, writer, artist and peace activist Yoko Ono has released a sequel that she hopes will inspire people and get them thinking and reading.
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, By Lucy Knisley
Sunday 30 June 2013
Week four in my adventures in using every single pan in any given kitchen and, on a cartoon high after re-reading some old Calvin and Hobbes, aka my Ulysses, I plump to road-test a comic-book cookbook.
In brief: Mark Fisher
Friday 28 June 2013
Further to your obituary of Mark Fisher (28 June), he will be remembered for breaking new ground with rock shows, and moving on from the ghastly video screen with a picture of the performer into things that added so much more to the experience, writes Nick Mason, Pink Floyd drummer.
Francis Bacon triptypch among £66m Sotheby's bonanza
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Masterworks by British contemporary art giants Francis Bacon and David Hockney will go under the hammer today in a £66 million bonanza.
Where are all the best postcards at the Magritte Museum? Put that in your pipe and smoke it
Friday 21 June 2013
Plus: OMG –WTF is this TPM thing? And, Paul Noble: genius squared with madness
Forget nudity and swearing. A real shock would be for the art world to engage with the right
Friday 21 June 2013
Plus The honour is all his in the Panter household and Private Lives' Toby Stephens picks a very public fight with Joan Collins
Queen Victoria's sketches and watercolours go on display at Windsor Castle
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Intimate sketches by Queen Victoria of her children will be one of the highlights of a new exhibition featuring artwork by the royal family through the centuries.
Exhibition review: Visions of the Universe - His dark materials, the photo album
Saturday 15 June 2013
An exhibition of startling images of the cosmos looks at the development of telescopy, photography, and our place in it all
Paperback review: The Last Dance, By Victoria Hislop
Saturday 15 June 2013
These 10 tales of Greek life evoke a strong sense of place, from the dusty streets of Athens to shady little tavernas in village squares.
Great works: Sir Robert and Lady Buxton with Their Daughter Anne, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
Friday 14 June 2013
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 1786, 73.6cm x 92.5cm by Henry Walton
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- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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