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Piero della Francesca meets Dalí: Winifred Knights at Dulwich Picture Gallery reviewed
‘Hidden beauty is best (half seen), faces turned away.’ So noted a young English painter named Winifred Knights in 1924.…
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Exclamation marks, no; aertex shirts, yes!
Jonathan Meades, the architectural, food and cultural commentator, appears on television in a pair of retro shades and a trademark…
There was good art under Franco
Everyone knows about the Spanish civil war, first battlefield in the struggle that broke out in 1936 and ended nine…
Hysteria is a pile-up of unmotivated absurdities
Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…
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