In a new exhibition, work from artists including Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam offer different ways to see what a portrait can represent
What exactly is a portrait? At its simplest, it might be an att…
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BBCNOW/Bancroft/Gerhardt review – intriguing connections, magic and melancholy beauty ⊕⊕
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Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
An imaginatively programmed concert featured Anders Hillborg alongside Sibelius and Shostakovich – with Alban Gerhardt the impeccable soloist in the latter’s second cello conce…
13 months ago
‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film ○
The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that…
14 months ago
‘CSI: Miró’: X-ray reveals Spanish artist painted out his mother – but why? ○
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Decades of detective work have uncovered Joan Miró’s hidden act of rebellion: painting over his mother’s portrait. But why did the artist do it?
Three clumps of raised paint, an old X-ray and months o…
15 months ago
‘She kept pushing the boundaries’: Paule Vézelay, the British abstract pioneer who found fame in interwar Paris ○
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A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of the maverick British artist beloved by Miro, Hemingway and Mondrian, who had to flee to Paris to realise her true artistic vision
Whichever art histori…
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