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Perth Museum review – a magical display of rampant unicorns and naked Picts

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City Hall, Perth This is how to reinvent a local museum, with inspiring, fun exhibits from the Stone of Scone to a salmon boat celebrating a proud and unique history It takes balls to transform a local collection of archaeology, art and stuffed salmon into a museum with ambitions on an international scale. And it so happens that balls are one of the new Perth Museum’s highlights, albeit prehistor…

Peter Richards obituary

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The role of the local authority conservation officer is much misunderstood and maligned. My father, Peter Richards, who has died aged 94, did much to place the discipline on a proper professional footing and demonstrate what it could achieve. He headed a multidisciplinary team at Essex county council from 1974 to 1994 and led the restoration of important historic buildings and their gardens for p…

Rare and raw: never before seen Rolling Stones – in pictures

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In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rock’n’roll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond – but couldn’t corner Charlie Watts Continue reading...

Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’

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In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him – long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherla…

From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures

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The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe – including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of…

Owners of Crooked House pub appeal against order to rebuild

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ATE Farms had been issued with enforcement notice for unlawful demolition after fire gutted building The owners of the Crooked House pub in Himley have appealed against an order to rebuild the 18th-century building, which was demolished days after a fire last year. The blaze on 5 August, which is being treated by police as arson, and the subsequent demolition of the famously wonky Staffordshire p…

Molten magnificence: how Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space

27.března
The American’s mighty masterpieces – straight, curved or set at thrilling angles – sucked everyone nearby into their mysterious gravity. Our critic pays tribute to art’s legendary man of steel Richard Serra – obituary Richard Serra – a life in pictures What could seem more out of step or more timeless than Richard Serra’s work – with its obdurate metal blocks and curving steel walls that can feel…

‘Obnoxious’: sculptures and installations that have divided opinion

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Statues in St Pancras station and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea endure despite opposition from public It was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it. But the faceless sculpture of Prince Philip outside a Cambridge office block, which is to be taken down years after it appeared, is …

Richard Serra obituary

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Sculptor whose monumental steel forms transformed public spaces Richard Serra, who has died aged 85, was a remarkable cultural figure – a sculptor who belonged to the generation of American minimalists, was associated with process art and made experimental films, yet evoked something of an earlier, more heroic age. The critic Robert Hughes described him as “the last abstract expressionist”. Altho…

A naked man plays with bubbles at Glastonbury – Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s best photograph

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‘I’d had too much to smoke and was lying down with my Leica when I saw Bubbleman. The bubble burst just as I pressed the shutter’ I only have two of my pictures up at home – and this one lives in the bathroom. It was commissioned by The Face and was among the first documentary photographs I had published. In the 1990s, everyone wanted to work for The Face . My first assignment was shooting neo-Na…

‘A bygone world of glamour’: Hollywood and the age of couture – in pictures

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George Hoyningen-Huene’s images of movie stars, exotic locations and fashion trends defined an era – as this first book on his work in decades shows Continue reading...

Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing

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Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife A Yorkshire parkland regarded as the world’s first nature reserve – which was created by an eccentric pioneering 19th-century environmentalist – has been given a Grade II listing. Historic England said Waterton Park, near Wakefield , was the earliest known example of a landscape designed spec…

Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’

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Design Museum, London From his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tags Shortly before the maverick Italian designer Enzo Mari died in 2020 , he donated his archive to the city of Milan with one condition: it must remain closed for the next 40 years. It would take at l…

Lynn Kinnear obituary

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Landscape architect whose work ranged from urban playgrounds to wetland parks and who was committed to working with local communities Lynn Kinnear, who has died of cancer aged 64, was one of the outstanding landscape architects of her generation. Her work ranged from urban playgrounds to natural parks such as Walthamstow Wetlands in east London. She collaborated with a number of leading architect…

From the blitz to Ukraine: has sheltering underground changed? – in pictures

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A new exhibition contrasts the experience of those enduring the second world war in London with Ukrainians currently taking cover from Russian bombs Continue reading...
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