Reviewed in short: New books by Bobby Duffy, Paul Kenyon, Carol Leonnig and Claire-Louise Bennett
Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? by Duffy, Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Kenyon, Zero…
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Michael Prodger is associate editor at the New Statesman.
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The dreamy nocturnes of Donato Creti
The descendant of the great 17th-century Bolognese painters studied the solar system – but his career remained earthbound.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Alex Renton, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, Elif Shafak, and Michelle Zauner
Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by…
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An anarchist on the Riviera
Henri-Edmond Cross envisaged the Mediterranean as a utopia for the deserving working man.
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How Josiah Wedgwood’s Frog Service depicted Britain in chinaware
Commissioned by Catherine the Great, this was both an extraordinary example of Georgian soft power and a pictorial record…
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The mysterious and unsettling pictures of Paula Rego
A new retrospective at Tate Britain reveals the paradox at the heart of her art: here is a narrative…
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Joaquin Mir’s colourful Spanish landscapes
The vivid, emotional works of an artist who left Picasso in awe.
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Maria Sibylla Merian’s insect paintings
The botanical artist’s “unnatural and distressing” interest in insects led to wonderfully detailed – and radical – illustrations.
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What does George Osborne’s appointment mean for the British Museum?
Since museums are almost as much about money as artefacts, there is a clear logic to the former chancellor’s…
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