Bob Marley and The Sex Pistols – The Music Photography of Dennis Morris
In this extract from ‘Dennis Morris: Music + Life’ Sean O’Hagan explores the remarkable work of one of the all-time great photographers of both mus...
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Weegee and Kubrick on the set of ‘Dr. Strangelove’
In this extract from ‘Weegee: Society of the Spectacle’, David Campany explores the creative pairing of two mavericks: iconic photographer Weegee a...
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How do you Make Public Space on a River?
Step onto Little Island, Thomas Heatherwick’s stunning floating park on the Hudson, where bold design and lush nature redefines what public space c...
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The Practice of Painting: Past and Present
In this extract from ‘How Painting Happens’, celebrated writer and art critic Martin Gayford draws a parallel between the practice of painting, pas...
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Velázquez, hippos, snail slime & the Pope: Highlights from Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words
This new book brings together letters, statements and interviews from one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. Here, Michael Peppiatt sh...
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Liam Wong on Project UrbEx, a photographic exploration of the world’s abandoned buildings
Videogame-designer-turned-photographer Liam Wong introduces 'Project UrbEx', which showcases Ikumi Nakamura's images of abandoned spaces around the...
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British Women Artists: From Suffrage to the Sixties
In this extract from ‘British Women Artists’, Carolyn Trant draws upon Virginia Woolf, Linda Nochlin and more, interrogating what it means to be a ...
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‘Renaissance eyes are fixed on this life’: The defining truths of Renaissance art
In this extract from ‘Earthly Delights’, Jonathan Jones delves into the worlds of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli and more, exploring how the Re...
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Polyfoam, collective care and absolute expression: The purity and power of cosplay
In this extract from Thurstan Redding’s ‘Kids of Cosplay’, Tom Rasmussen explores the vast, vibrant cosplay community, whose ‘heart is not for sale’.
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Where did werewolves come from? The ‘wolf-man’ of the Slavic imagination
This extract from ‘The Slavic Myths’ explores the intriguing and changeable position of the werewolf in Slavic Mythology – at times god, vampire an...
