12 h. ago A guide to peculiar British road etiquette for Americans (including the art of the ‘thank you’ wave)

TV personality and car enthusiast Freddie Browne has produced a video outlining how to ‘drive British’. And Brits were asked in a survey which road rules Americans should learn...

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37 h. ago Miami Beach becomes latest Florida city to see rainbow crosswalk removed, angering LGBT community

Florida state officials directed local governments to remove art from crosswalks and intersections, including anything ‘associated with social, political, or ideological messages’

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1 week ago From designer gowns to clothes found in railway lost property or made out of rugby balls

Models including Mrs Universe 2022 paraded at London's Guildhall Art Gallery - showcasing outfits aimed at cutting waste and revitalising discarded items.

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1 week ago British teenager Harry Hudson wins junior world road race title

The 18-year-old, who rides for Harrogate Nova Race Team, is the first British rider to win the men’s junior world road race

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2 w. ago Six exciting things to do in Greater Manchester this weekend

There's plenty of things to do in Manchester this weekend including wing and beer festivals, art battles and more

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3 w. ago ‘Art became a means of survival’: the Gaza Biennale lands in New York City

Recess, BrooklynA traveling exhibition of work from Palestinian artists aims to provide visibility to those whose lives have been devastated by the ongoing warArtists will go on creating, even under the most extreme and inhumane of conditions. This truism is part of the message and the power of the Gaza Biennale, which is currently working to exhibit the art of dozens of Palestinians around the world – including in New York City, where the abolitionist arts non-profit Recess hosts an exhibition of work from more than 25 of these artists.“They are artists, they need to create art,” said the Biennale organizers, who are currently located in Gaza and requested to be identified as the Forbidden Museum. “We need to help artists stand up for themselves with their skills. Just because you are an artist in the middle of a genocide doesn’t mean you don’t have anything to do.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Art lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colourSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne of my favourite paintings in the National Gallery’s collection technically breaks the rules: Paul Cézanne’s Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) was painted in the last decade of his life, its date given as about 1894-1905. It was probably finished after the gallery’s cut-off date of 1900, a cut-off the gallery has just announced it will be jettisoning.To say that I am pleased is an understatement. It always struck me as bizarre that the end date occurs just at the exact point in history when painting is about to become very interesting. Just look at the Baigneuses and what they represent: the leap towards abstraction in the representation of the human form; the composition and its unidentifiable, but un...

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