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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

The extraordinary life of Josephine Baker, looked back on in 1986

The singer, dancer, superstar and (as it later turned out) spy had been the toast of Paris in the 1920s

The Guardian - UK

Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

“Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”

The Walrus

One to watch: Berlioz

Inspired by visual art, producer Jasper Attlee’s jazz-house project has a huge streaming audience that's about to get bigger

The Guardian - UK

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Founder of Cult Gaia and Bratz Creative Director Jasmin Larian Hekmat's Favourite Things

The designer and businesswoman reveals how Bratz has influenced her personal style, the inspiration behind recent Cult Gaia collections and more

Evening Standard

Berlioz curates your Friday night playlist

Mysterious producer and DJ Berlioz has quickly become one of the country’s biggest jazz artists thanks to his pastel-coloured house music and has even been compared to Matisse in sonic form

Evening Standard

Vicken Parsons review: Tiny works of delicacy and seduction from a hidden gem of an artist

No painting is bigger than a foot, but Parsons’ works of luminous colour call to mind the vivid images of Matisse, Mondrian and Howard Hodgkin

The Independent UK

OPINION - London is overtaking Paris and New York for culture, so why can't I visit a gallery on a whim?

It was Saturday morning and my two twentysomething daughters had just announced that they were (rather shockingly) available for me to buy them lunch. Lucky me. I felt honoured. While I have learned not to be quite so enthusiastic when they suggest going shopping together (my accountant has actually banned…

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Freddie Mercury's London Sanctuary Hits Market After Renovations

Explore the iconic Garden Lodge in London, once owned by Freddie Mercury, now up for sale after nearly 50 years. Discover its opulent history and the memor...

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David Hampton on painting and memorising poetry at 97: ‘Anyone creative is more likely to live longer’

In his first ever interview, the artist talks about a life spent making dazzling pictures, why he’s not bitter about being undiscovered, and why his art school ‘didn’t get’ Matisse

The Guardian - UK

The Harlem Renaissance: expansive exhibition celebrates a vital cultural era

The Met is hosting the first major look at the work of Black artists during the era since 1987, making the link between their work and European modernism

The Guardian - US

Best floral and botanical art prints that will look great on your wall

Bring the outside in with blooming beautiful artwork

Evening Standard

‘Famous then forgotten’: can Frieze rescue the legions of lost female painters?

Their work dazzled the world – but was obliterated from history. As the giant art fair Frieze opens in London, we explore its historic new section aiming to write women back into the story of art

The Guardian - UK

Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

The Guardian - UK

Caroline Calloway: ‘I am afraid that Cambridge will take my degree back — it would be a real blow to my ego’

The internet sensation scammed her way into the British academic institution — then built a career as an ‘It girl’ off her life there. With the publication of her searing new memoir, she tells Alexandra Jones why she’s leaving all artifice behind

Evening Standard

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Shunned, boycotted, exiled: has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did?

When she walked out on Picasso, he destroyed her art and waged war on her career – while France cast her out. Now that this great painter has died, says the woman writing her biography, it is time for this shameful treatment to cease

The Week

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris review

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

The Guardian - UK

What did the critics who trashed Georgia O’Keeffe have in common? See if you can guess

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?

The Guardian - UK

What modelling King Charles’s head taught me about very public portraits – and sovereignty itself

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

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‘I’m staying at Larry Gagosian’s place’ – Stanley Whitney’s long journey from rat-infested New York

His wobbly blocks of high-key colours, painted while listening to Miles Davis, have made Whitney America’s greatest Black abstract artist. As a new show opens in the UK, he relives his tough early days

The Guardian - UK

Monet in Lego, modern art’s birth and Hockney’s bigger leash – the week in art

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philly art museum staffers ratify first contract, look forward to returning after historic strike

PHILADELPHIA — Striking members of the first union in the storied history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art overwhelmingly approved their first contract Sunday evening and prepared to return to their jobs Monday morning, concluding a historic 19-day walkout.

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh art festival 2022 review – sunstruck blockbuster steals the show

A Greek chorus of clay busts, an audience with some molluscs and a magnificent show of impressionist masterpieces captivate

The Independent UK

Milton Avery at Royal Academy review: A notable American artist who went his own way

The Royal Academy’s substantial exhibition puts this post-war painter into the spotlight – it’s an enlivening experience, writes Mark Hudson

The Guardian - UK

Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, the original abstract expressionist – review

As this brilliant exhibition shows, Avery was an experimental dreamer whose sublime landscapes and beach scenes paved the way for Rothko, Pollock and Newman

The Guardian - AU

‘A genius is a sponge’: inside the new Picasso exhibition that isn’t all about Picasso

The Picasso Century at Australia’s NGV sees the artist share the spotlight with 50 of his contemporaries, and explains how one man could ‘catch and translate all the values of a time’

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