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Salvador Dalí

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18 days ago

Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage ⊕⊕

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He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera

Opera has inspired …

75 days ago

‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕

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The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…

4 months ago

Jamie Oliver says he’s only hanging out with ‘lovely people’ in his 50s. But sometimes we all need an Eeyore around

I’m hungry for wisdom from others on dealing with midlife challenges, such as exist…

Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealer

To the untrained eye, it looks more like an alien has landed on Chewbacca’s head than a m…

A new exhibition, featuring images of Hollywood stars and war photography, shows why the ‘King of Vogue’ was one of the visionary forces of the British 20th century

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6 months ago

Even if we don’t develop long sticky tongues and a taste for termites, we can still learn a lot from these remarkable creatures

Who doesn’t love an anteater? I mean, apart from ants, obviously. With t…

National Gallery, London
There’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desires

The figures in Jean-F…

7 months ago

Unusual illustration, to be sold by Cheffins, was part of surrealist artist’s abandoned Arabian Nights project

It is not a painting that screams it is a masterpiece by Salvador Dalí to the untrained e…

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinations

It wa…

9 months ago

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…

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