Photo essay: The children of Thatcher’s Britain
Craig Easton’s images of one family capture the reality of state neglect.
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The potter of porcelain mania
How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.
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Portrait of an 18th-century It girl
Joshua Reynolds’ beloved painting contains the hidden story of my socialite ancestor, whose life spanned England, France and America.
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The second birth of JMW Turner
This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created…
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What Russia can teach us
From Tolstoy to Shostakovich, Russian culture shaped Europe. We must not lose it.
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David Hockney writ large
A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.
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Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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Munch the social animal
The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company.
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