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What I Wish I Knew Before Visiting the Lofoten Islands
The Lofoten archipelago is a dramatic clash of mountains and water. Photo: Lucy Davies I visited the Lofoten Islands - Norway’s wild archipelago, north of the Arctic Circle - in the shoulder season of February, and I found a winter wonderland. It was ice-cold, with sub-zero temperatures, but it was spectacularly beautiful; the mountains blanketed in snow and the northern lights flickering above our heads in the darkness.
Adolphe de Meyer’s Venice palazzo of dreams
On visiting Venice, which of us has not idly imagined calling an elegantly crumbling, barnacle-coated mansion home?
Cindy Sherman: ‘My photographs make me come to terms with my body changing’
Stepping into the penthouse that is Cindy Sherman’s New York stronghold, I am greeted by a scene straight out of an old heist movie: a...
Queen of crime, queen of the camera — the revelatory photography of Agatha Christie
Perhaps you’ve heard of the “Kodak Girl”, a character dreamt into being by the Eastman Kodak company in 1893 to sell its snapshot cameras...
'Brighton Dome is all about the LIVE' - Column
On behalf of all of us at Brighton Dome, I'm thrilled to share this packed programme of events for our three beautiful stages this autumn and winter. Brighton Dome is all about the LIVE – celebrating live experiences together, from every art form, for every age. Rooted in the heart of this great city, we celebrate our incredible local talents and go around the country and the world to invite the best work from the best artists, right here to BN1.
Catherine Goodman at Boughton House: ‘It’s quite difficult to compete with a Raphael’
Over four years, the British artist Catherine Goodman has learnt every tapestry-hung, silk-papered, oak-panelled corner of Boughton House.
Waldmüller: Landscapes — a cool Alpine antidote to London heatwaves
“Heaven on earth” is how Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria described the bracing, vivid countryside surrounding his summer idyll at Bad...
Autistic multi-instrumentalist Dale to perform at Milton Keynes Disability Awareness Day celebration
Dale playing his acoustic guitar | Dale O "Dale's performance is a wonderful example of what Disability Awareness Day is all about” Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Milton Keynes Citizen, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting...
James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain — a plunge into the rush of the modern world
A fascination with modernity lured the 25-year-old James McNeill Whistler to London in 1859, but he stayed for the river Thames.
Allison Katz: ‘I like the idea of images that can go beyond themselves’
In a former life, the brick oblong that is Allison Katz’s south London studio was a windscreen repair workshop, “which is perfect”, says...
Artist Lorna Simpson: ‘I take images and assign them a different meaning’
A gem-like painting no larger than a notebook presides over Lorna Simpson’s living room in Brooklyn.
The magnificent, unruly inner life of Rose Wylie at the Royal Academy
Confronted with the edge of a canvas, most artists would curtail their composition to fit. Not Rose Wylie.
What use is culture in a time of war?
What use is a sketch, a sculpture or a sonnet when war is rumbling around you?
The seven wonders that were the Pattle sisters
From the February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. One of the great artistic colonies of the Victorian era was in Kensington, then a village on London’s periphery, where wealthy painters including Frederic Leighton and Val Prinsep built magnificent, architect-designed studio homes on the old Holland estate.
David Lynch’s first love was art — now his unsettling paintings and photographs are revealed
David Lynch dreamt up some of the most twitchy, stay-with-you images in the history of film and television — Willem Dafoe’s tiny teeth in...
George Condo: ‘I want my paintings as loud and amped up as Hendrix’
When George Condo lived in Paris in the late 1980s, the Bains Douches was about the hippest spot in town, frequented by a transatlantic...
Van Gogh and the postman: the story of a ‘kindred spirit’ in paint
“Sunflowers”, “The Night Café”, “Chair” — the paintings that Vincent van Gogh produced in Arles between 1888 and 1889 — are touchstones...
Cold, dust and darkness — the daily rituals that unleashed Picasso
Plenty of dust, a cold room, working at night and a bugle — the road to greatness is paved with idiosyncratic rituals and predilections,...
Language Revitalisation in Welsh Public Libraries: Exploring how Libraries are supporting the Welsh Government’s Target to reach 1 Million Welsh Speakers by 2050
In 2017, the Welsh Government unveiled its ambitious language strategy. ‘Cymraeg 2050’ aims to achieve 1 million Welsh speakers in Wales by 2050 by increasing the number of Welsh speakers and the number of people who use Welsh daily.
‘Josephine Baker liberated women’s bodies’
When the curtain rose on La Revue Nègre, a jazz and burlesque show featuring Black artists at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in October...
How Dennis Potter gripped and shocked a generation of TV viewers
On paper, nearly everything about Dennis Potter’s 1986 teleplay The Singing Detective can seem hard to fathom.
Filmmaker Humphrey Jennings: a visionary of canvas and camera
Humphrey Jennings’ films about life in Britain around the time of the second world war have so often been likened to poetry that the...
What I learned about AI-powered PR.
AI learning isn’t just code and models — it’s shaped by the data we create, the content we share, and the conversations we spark. Creativity fuels AI-powered PR. I don’t like waiting. I don’t like long processes. I’ve got a strong creative vision, but I lose interest in the in-between, polishing sentence structures, sitting through endless meetings, or debating which shade of blue works best in a deck. I’ve never had much patience for the space between having an idea and making it real.
Ithell Colquhoun and Edward Burra at Tate Britain — harmony emerges from an unlikely coupling
Ithell Colquhoun and Edward Burra — it’s an ambitious concept to yoke two relatively obscure artists whose only apparent connection is...
Why artist Pat Steir is in thrall to the power of chance
Pat Steir has a thing for colour.
'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognition Original
'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognition Art Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick Johnson Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at the Water's Edge, Morning on the Seine.
What would Grayson Perry steal from the Wallace Collection?
Grayson Perry is contemplating robbery. And no, the esteemed artist and broadcaster has not gone to rack and ruin.
Lita Albuquerque subverted land art’s boys club — she’s finally getting her due
Lita Albuquerque subverted land art’s boys club — she’s finally getting her due authored by Lucy Davies | 2/13/2025
Lita Albuquerque subverted land art’s boys club — she’s finally getting her due
In her creekside cabin in Malibu, Lita Albuquerque is waiting for the dawn.
Darren Almond and the Freudian slips
Darren Almond is recreating the interior of a chapel when I arrive at his studio in Norfolk.
Versailles viewed through a different lens at London’s Science Museum — exhibition review
Any mention of the Palace of Versailles is likely to summon images of gilt panelling, extravagant coiffure and majestic avenues radiating...
Basquiat’s peak years — how the artist found inspiration in St Moritz
Think Jean-Michel Basquiat, and New York is not far behind.
Rungano Nyoni: "Trauma is minding your business and then there’s a body lying next to you"
Rungano Nyoni discsusses the origins and inspirations of her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which took home the prize for Best Film in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. “Film is about making things tangible, right? Like how do you deal with your past? Why do you stumble across it on a dark road?” The Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni is talking to me about the opening sequence of her second feature On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
Photographer Dawoud Bey: ‘The ground still holds the memory of the slave trail’
From pristine wilderness to the open road, visions of the landscape have been crucial to the forging of America’s identity.
Annie Leibovitz isn’t ready to relax yet
Annie Leibovitz picked me up from the station and drove us north along a twisting road through mysterious woods, the long autumn light...
A Rabbit's Foot 2073 review-Chris Marker's La Jetée updated for a society of surveillance
Filmmaker Asif Kapadia celebrated the vigour of the individual spirit in his critically acclaimed trilogy of biographical documentaries—Senna (2009), Amy (2015) and Diego Maradona (2019). His fear of an environment threatening the existence of such spirits is palpable in his latest film 2073, which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
The magnificent world of Rose Wylie
In Faversham, Kent, the artist Rose Wylie resides in a world removed from our own, surrounded by her art and nature. Lucy Davies pays Wylie a visit to learn more about her extraordinary life. Photography by Fatima Khan. The garden at Rose Wylie’s house in Kent is a long rectangle that juts snugly into a field.
Exploring the experiences of English-speaking women who have moved to Israel and subsequently used Israeli fertility treatment services: A qualitative study
Citation: Davies L, de Wildt G, Benyamini Y, Ramkumar A, Adams R (2024) Exploring the experiences of English-speaking women who have moved to Israel and subsequently used Israeli fertility treatment services: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE 19(8): e0309265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309265 Editor: Syed Khurram Azmat, Marie Stopes International, PAKISTAN Received: August 31, 2023; Accepted: August 7, 2024; Published: August 28, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Davies et al.
Ida Hammershøi: The identity of art's most famous "faceless woman" Original
Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring figure: a mysterious woman with her back turned. Here, through letters and photos, her moving, sadness-tinged story is revealed. I In his 1901 painting Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi depicts a tall window, a lopsided white door and a woman at a table. We can't quite see her face, or what she is doing, but she isn't the painting's protagonist.
Breathtaking: Mary Cassatt at Work, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reviewed
Mary Cassatt at Work Mary Cassatt at Work Philadelphia Museum of Art, until 8 September, then at Legion of Honor, San Francisco, from 5 October 2024 to 26 January 2025 Work – in the sense of toil – is about the last thing a 19th-century painter wished to be associated with. Inspiration and success were gifts bestowed on the lucky few – about as easy to grasp as smoke. For Mary Cassatt, however, art was nothing more than work.
Jasper Maskelyne, el mago británico detrás de los ingeniosos engaños que ayudaron a vencer a los nazis en África
En la década de 1930, Jasper Maskelyne era un mago superestrella que actuaba ante multitudes que abarrotaban los teatros de Reino Unido. Un cartel de 1931 correspondiente a su paso por el London Palladium lo catalogaba como “el mayor ilusionista de Inglaterra”. A decir verdad, era un poco dandi, con un toque de Errol Flynn por su bigote lápiz y sus ojos penetrantes. Ágil también, basándose en la evidencia de una película de Pathé de 1937 en la que parece tragarse una docena de hojas de afeitar.
‘He’s very decisive’: Elton John’s private art advisor on his collecting obsession
Some years ago, Newell Harbin was at Elton John’s house – the one in Atlanta, as opposed to those in Windsor, London, Nice or LA. She had recently become director of his photography collection, and he was giving her a tour. Pausing by Robert Frank’s 1955 picture Trolley—New Orleans, she dated it incorrectly. ‘I caught myself – “Oh wait, no” – and he didn’t just correct me, he told me what year he bought it and how much he paid.
British Pop artist Peter Blake on his 'last necessary show' Original
British Pop artist Peter Blake on his 'last necessary show' By Lucy Davies,Features correspondent Luke Andrew Walker (Credit: Luke Andrew Walker) From his iconic Beatles' Sgt Pepper cover to his latest sculptures created with found objects, the pioneering artist has always been ahead of the curve. He talks to BBC Culture about his life and work. There are 50,000 items in Sir Peter Blake's studio, including a fleet of model galleons whose masts are a metre tall.
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O mágico que teria ajudado a derrotar nazistas com truques de ilusionismo
Nos anos 1930, Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973) era um superastro da magia que se apresentava para plateias lotadas nos teatros de variedades de todo o Reino Unido. Um pôster de 1931, anunciando sua apresentação no teatro London Palladium, chamava o mágico de "o maior ilusionista da Inglaterra". Verdade seja dita, ele era um tanto excêntrico — tinha um certo toque de Errol Flynn (1909-1959), o ator de cinema, com seu bigode fino e olhar penetrante.
What Organ Donation Week means to me
Organ donation is one of those things people so rarely think about. Mainly because it often involves something very emotional and sad – post-death arrangements – which most people would rather avoid thinking about. But, if you or someone you know have received a donated organ (like I did), you’ll know there’s a hugely positive story to take from it all. When I was just two years old, I was diagnosed with childhood liver disease. I was still pre-malignant, but essentially a ticking-time bomb.
The art of inventory, from Vermeer to Freud
Two copper snuffers. A child’s bed with a pillow. Four bad green curtains. Sounds like a crime scene—and a grim one at that—but actually it’s a few lines from the inventory of Johannes Vermeer’s family home in Delft, made shortly after the artist’s death in December 1675. It’s also the beginnings of a story. One that, in glancing brushstrokes, summons the tall, narrow house on the Oude Langendijk to life, encouraging the mind to drift through its halls, attic rooms and kitchens.
BBC Broadcaster & Journalist Martha Kearney Announced as Camphill MK Patron
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