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55 days ago

A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule

This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curio

Waris Hussein’s earnest 1969 movie, adapted by Margaret D…

57 days ago

‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting …

64 days ago

‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery

• Photographs by Keelson Studio

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68 days ago

83 days ago

Pro-Palestine youth group plans to target the British Museum and other London landmarks to cost the city 'millions of pounds' in disruption, Mail undercover probe reveals

Youth Demand is planning to target the British Museum and other London landmarks as part of a major new plot to 'shutdown' the city for an entire month.

85 days ago

Yrjö Kukkapuro, renowned Finnish chair designer, dies aged 91

‘Almost every Finn has sat on a chair he designed,’ his studio says, with his postmodern creations gracing galleries around the world

Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish designer whose postmodern style…

89 days ago

Science Museum's self-guided tour accuses Lego of being anti-LGBT as interlocking bricks reinforce heterosexuality as 'the norm'

The Science Museum in London is running a self-guided tour called 'Seeing Things Queerly' which states that Lego blocks can illustrate how heterosexuality is seen as the 'norm'.

3 months ago

Tiny Nigerian museum marking a forgotten British invasion pushes for recognition

Museum in Koko, Niger Delta, commemorates important exiled merchant prince Nanna Olomu – but it has no cooling and a termite issue

In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten…

‘African art is not a fleeting trend’: Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent’s artists

Reopening after renovation, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will provide a permanent home for the extensive Lazraq family collection

For more than four decades, the Lazraq family in M…

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