Victor Hugo’s secret world: unveiling the surreal sketchbook of a literary giant
One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...
Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
Nothing can be more grounding than the fact he designed it at Sidmouth Library in between shifts at the Co-op in the town.
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Cy Twombly’s Decades of Poetry and Play Captivate at Gagosian
Like most of the artist's output, the paintings ... With oil, acrylic and pencil on wood panel, Twombly brings in his love for classical references and smacking words onto the painting in an ...
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Reimagining Yoko: A New Biography Dispels Myths and Recasts Yoko Ono as a “Creative Force” Alongside John Lennon
In a Q&A, author David Sheff talks about his new Yoko Ono biography and his hopes of disproving the popular narrative that ...
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A Painter Whose Work Is Never Finished
Ellis’s canvas, a labyrinthine jumble of pencil marks ... like the gothic arches above a Minotaur here. Credit...Janiva Ellis; via the artist and 47 Canal; Photo by Joerg Lohse A shelf at ...
Corp Core and Boom Boom: Buyers Praise the Return of Maximalism
Buyers report their budgets are up as they snap up new takes on ‘80s office dressing, with big shoulders and opulent outerwear.
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Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RA
Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...
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150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate
By Kim Beil Kim Beil, an art historian who teaches at Stanford University, hiked for four days through rain, sleet, hail and snow to report this story. (She sawed her pencil in half to save a ...
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The AW25 beauty trends to bookmark
The make-up for the collection took the same direction as the hair, pulling from the opulence of renaissance-era art ... a gothic ombre lip that was achieved using MAC's Nightmoth lip pencil ...