3 h. ago Art reviews: The Thread that Pulls | Nature turns | Barbara Rae DBE: Prints

There’s an unusual twist in the new exhibition from Visual Arts Scotland, writes Duncan Macmillan

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3 d. ago David Hockney at Annely Juda Fine Art: 'The greatest living painter

Artist Daniel Lismore visits Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris to find Hockney at the peak of his powers

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7 d. ago Carry On's Sandra Caron dies aged 89 after being hospitalised over 'extreme weight loss and a few bad falls'

Sandra, best known for her cheeky turn in Carry On Camping alongside close friend Barbara Windsor, passed away from natural causes in Los Angeles after six weeks in hospital.

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1 week ago ‘Impeccable’ film from ‘one of the greatest filmmakers’ now streaming

The film has been dubbed a "masterpiece" by reviewers, who have praised the film's art direction and stellar acting

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3 w. ago Caravaggio review – articulate and intelligent portrait of the art titan’s life and work

This new addition to the Exhibition on Screen series features an alarmingly plausible-looking actor as the great man himselfThe latest offering from the estimable Exhibition on Screen strand takes on one of the biggies – and with a title like that, it is also perhaps treading on other hallowed ground: that of Derek Jarman, whose 1986 biopic is arguably the most brilliant rendering of the great painter’s life and death. By contrast, this Caravaggio is a much more orthodox art-documentary treatment of its subject, playing to the strengths that the EoS films have built up over the years: beautifully crisp and detailed closeups of the work, well-informed and articulate talking-heads, and a nicely judged overall approach that is intelligent but not indigestible.To be fair, this particular artist is well worked territory, so to spruce things up, the joint directors, David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky, cut in sequences with a monologuing actor, Jack Bannell, in character as Caravaggio. The...

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3 w. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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4 w. ago Turner Prize 2025 exhibition review: 'four artists who could hardly be more different'

A Turner Prize victory for Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu would be a game-changer for disabled artists, writes Susan Mansfield

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