V&A South Kensington, London
The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí
Naked merma…
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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 …
3 months 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…
5 months ago
From ‘mood hoovers’ to ‘energy vampires’ - here’s why negative friends are good for you | Emma Beddington ⊕⊕
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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…
Lost Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 sold at auction for £47,700 ⊕
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…
6 months ago
Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures ⊕
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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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Animals keep evolving into anteaters. Could this be the future of humanity? | Helen Pilcher ○
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…
Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil ○
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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…
Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 at house clearance sale valued at £20-30,000 ○
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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…
Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art ○
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…