Muso snobs don’t own Kate Bush
Hoary gatekeepers mocking teenagers for finding “Running Up That Hill” through Stranger Things forget this is how it’s always worked.
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How Paula Rego dragged the dark into the light
The painter, who has died aged 87, looked deep inside herself to make sinister but universal art.
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Sheila Hancock Q&A: “I met Clement Attlee when I was working at the circus”
The actor on how education changes lives, falling in love and the brilliance of Shuggie Bain.
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Algernon Newton: rediscovering British art’s “Canaletto of the canals”
The painter’s depopulated cities and landscapes are visions of a 20th-century world wracked by war.
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How the Ukrainian painter Arkhip Kuindzhi laid out the spirituality in nature before Russian eyes
His 1905 painting Red Sunset on the Dnieper shows a Ukrainian village illuminated, something which today carries inescapably dark connotations.
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Raphael, the painter of perfection
He showed succeeding generations not just how art should be made but how an artist should live.
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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 artist…
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The conscientious painter
Percy Horton was born in 1897 and so reached conscriptable age in the middle of the First World War. He,…
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