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Plans for cultural hub at house of William Blake backed by London Assembly

The Mayfair property offers a ‘unique opportunity’ to ‘secure Blake’s legacy for generations to come’

Evening Standard

Poem of the week: Are they shadows … by Samuel Daniel

A beguiling look at the fleeting pleasures of theatre, and the fleetingness of pleasure itself

The Guardian - UK

Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart

Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many things: she was a pop star, an actress and a muse. But she was probably best known for her voice.

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David Hockney unveils unseen work for major Paris retrospective

Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist’s biggest exhibition

The Guardian - UK

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

The Guardian - UK

The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman review – the science of imagination

A neuroscientist’s sprawling survey of the creative mind takes in both William Blake and physicist Paul Dirac

The Guardian - UK

What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

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Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn

The genitals of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at it

The Guardian - UK

The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

The Guardian - UK

The Ultimate Libra Gift Guide: Best present ideas for Libras in 2024

Presents for those born between September 23 and October 22

Evening Standard

Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum

Campaign aims to renovate Sussex home where artist and poet wrote Jerusalem in time for 200th anniversary of his death

The Guardian - UK

Best crystal bracelets for any outfit

Wearable, healing accessories for the spiritually-minded

Evening Standard

Henry Moore at the Courtauld Gallery review: a splendid show of the great sculptor's lesser-known drawings

These drawings make us think again about Moore the sculptor, while the gallery also has a fine show of Vanessa Bell’s works that is worth visiting

Evening Standard

Best illustrated books for adults for a visually captivating yarn

Picture perfect storytelling at its finest

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Salon

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

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Man falls asleep driving minibus, killing woman

A 77-year-old man has admitted he fell asleep while driving a minibus, leading to a crash that killed one woman and seriously injured three others.

The Guardian - UK

‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations

Research that aims to explain why some people experience intense visual imagery could lead to a better understanding of creativity and some mental disorders

The Guardian - UK

The right is as stale as its ‘woke National Trust scones’ gambit

The heritage body’s alleged descent into butter-free wokeness is a storm in an afternoon teacup whipped up by its cultural foes

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25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

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The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris review – the joy of Sussex

Returning to her native soil, the historian unearths stories from the second world war, the days of the French revolution and the prehistoric era

Metal Hammer

"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

Metal Hammer

Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

The Guardian - UK

William Blake’s Universe review – polymath’s paintings are outclassed by the Germans

A wide-ranging exhibition on the English mystic makes unfortunate comparisons with his European contemporaries who, it turns out, are the far superior Romantics

The Guardian - UK

Black identity, Blake’s intensity and how to dust David – the week in art

Plus splashy colourful paintings, Korean colour pencil drawings and Yoko Ono’s huge retrospective – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

William Blake was the emblem of Englishness – but his art was intrinsically European

The revered artist barely left London in his lifetime but, as a new exhibition shows, his work was part of a broader European art revolution

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