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Alberto Burri: Form and Matter, Estorick Collection, London
Sunday 15 January 2012
The Italian war medic turned artist Alberto Burri proves to be a neglected master and innovator in a show of power and beauty
'Big Man' charged over train assault
Thursday 22 December 2011
A man has been charged by police over an alleged assault when a teenager was removed from a train by another passenger.
Man charged over train assault
Thursday 22 December 2011
A man has been charged by police over an alleged assault when a teenager was removed from a train by another passenger.
Patrick Wolf: A red-letter day for the bad boy of indietronica
Friday 25 February 2011
His impending gay marriage means Patrick Wolf's new album is very different to its angry predecessors. Elisa Bray meets him
'We want to keep our father's story alive': A new generation is taking Holocaust stories into classrooms
Thursday 27 January 2011
It was an accident that alerted Motek Grzmot's saviours to his presence. An accidental groan. Unconscious, slumped atop a cart, all but buried under a mound of corpses, Grzmot's battered body was destined to join a thousand others in the mass graves of postwar Europe. And then he groaned. Without realising it, he had saved himself. The Danish troops around him heard his cry and removed him from the pile – a pile headed directly for burial – before placing him on another vehicle, this one headed to a nearby hospital.
Claude Monet, Grand Palais, Paris
Sunday 26 September 2010
Five curators trawled 14 countries to find works for Paris’s first major Monet show in 30 years
Tom Brooks-Pollock: I had to take a bar job to pay for my work in the Commons
Tuesday 14 September 2010
First person: Not paying people favours rich kids whose parents can support them
Album: The Burns Unit, Side Show (Proper)
Friday 30 July 2010
That's Burns as in Robbie, the members of this Scots-Canadian folk-pop supergroup – including King Creosote, Future Pilot AKA, Karine Polwart and Emma Pollock – having met at a "Burnsong" retreat.
Diary: Parsons' purple patch
Thursday 08 July 2010
You needn't be a veteran Prince-watcher to presume that a man who briefly changed his name to a symbol might be given to grand pronouncements. Such as, for example, the 52-year-old's transparently misguided assertion in this Tuesday's Daily Mirror that the internet is "completely over".
Masterpieces? Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Sunday 16 May 2010
The Pompidou's off-shoot in north-east France has opened with much fanfare but its first exhibition is a bit of a 20th-century hotchpotch
US Coast Guard sets fire to giant oil slick as it nears Louisiana
Thursday 29 April 2010
The US Coast Guard set fire to parts of a growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico last night in a desperate effort to keep it from reaching shore and hopefully avert an ecological calamity.
Ashcroft cash unleashed against Balls
Friday 09 April 2010
Ed Balls faces a tough fight to hold on to his seat in the face of a concerted Tory decapitation strategy, a survey by The Independent has found.
Grewcock off as Ulster beat Bath but fall short
Sunday 24 January 2010
Bath 10 Ulster 28: Lack of a bonus costs 1999 champions dear after England lock sees red again
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