1. Janet Stowell obituary

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   My mother, Janet Stowell, who has died aged 88, was a trained artist. She also worked as a designer before turning to producing linocut designs as a sideline while raising her family. Later came weaving and teaching tai chi.Janet was born in Didsbury, Manchester, as the y...

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1. Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Wallace Collection, LondonArtworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more straightforwardGrayson Perry is fascina...

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1. Here Is a Gale Warning review – five tumultuous decades of catastrophic art

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Kettle’s Yard, CambridgeA flag hoisted in 1971 looms over a show that references to George Floyd, Inuit women and spear-bearing Amazons – to a droll soundtrack from Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer One gusty aftern...

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1. A storm-chaser beneath ferocious rotating clouds: Richard Sharum’s best photograph

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   ‘Our hair stood on end as the air around us became supercharged. There were telegraph poles and hailstones the size of oranges dropping out of the sky’I am a proud American, although that notion has been politicised to death in this country, where you’re not considered pa...

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1. Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war ...

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1. Leave those kids alone! Teaching through play – in pictures

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Arts teacher and photographer Hicham Benohoud encouraged students to engage playfully with identity in postcolonial Morocco, for a project called The Classroom ...

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1. London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design ...

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1. Trump is offended by a painting of himself. For once, I get where he’s coming from | Dave Schilling

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   We all know what it’s like to be horrified by our own image. In the president’s case, he looks like a large baby in a suitWhile his friends are getting messy in the group chat, Donald Trump...

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1. ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for...

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1. A 90-year mystery solved: 'Lost' Maxine Albro frescoes uncovered at the Ebell of Los Angeles

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after contentious battle — the frescoes were thought to be destroyed. They have now been rediscovered....

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