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Even near the front line, there were flowers on the ward

6 September 2014 9:00 am

It’s the tub of bright red geraniums at the heart of the picture that startles. How did anyone have time…

Nursing on the front line

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

It’s the tub of bright red geraniums at the heart of the picture that startles. How did anyone have time…

Nursing on the front line

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

It’s the tub of bright red geraniums at the heart of the picture that startles. How did anyone have time…

A wooden UFO lands in Yorkshire Sculpture Park

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…

Wood work

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…

Wood work

28 August 2014 1:00 pm

The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…

Anne Seymour Damer: the female Bernini?

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…

A woman’s work

21 August 2014 1:00 pm

Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…

A woman’s work

21 August 2014 1:00 pm

Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…

Less cuddly, more creepy: The Human Factor at the Hayward Gallery

16 August 2014 9:00 am

Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…

Space invaders

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…

Space invaders

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…

3,000 acts and no quality control – why the Edinburgh Fringe is the greatest (and patchiest) arts festival in the world

9 August 2014 9:00 am

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

A history of remembrance

2 August 2014 9:00 am

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

Alexander Pope, inventor of celebrity

26 July 2014 9:00 am

‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…

The art of celebrity

24 July 2014 1:00 pm

‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…

The art of celebrity

24 July 2014 1:00 pm

‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…

A celebration of Scottish artistic success over the past 25 years

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

Great Scots

17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

Great Scots

17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

Ryedale Festival: a beacon of survival without subsidy

12 July 2014 9:00 am

There are festivals of everything, everywhere. So why get excited about the Ryedale Festival (11–27 July) apart from the fact…