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1 week ago Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, her blue dress almost the only colour in a still, sandy room. Gwen John’s painting The Convalescent shows a subdued yet happy moment, for this woman is free to think and feel. That, we see in Judith Mackrell’s outstanding double biography of Gwen and her brother, was her ideal for living: to be at liberty even if that meant existing in deepest solitude.The quietness of a life spent largely alone in single rooms, reading, drawing, painting and occasionally having wild sex with the sculptor Rodin, is counterpointed in this epic narrative by the crowded, relentless, almost insanely overstimulated life of Augustus John. Lion of the arts in early 20th-century Britain, he was a bigamist, adulterer, father of so many children you lose track (so did he), and an utterly forgettable painter. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London’s V&A Storehouse museum lets visitors get their hands on 5,000 years of creativity

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage

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1 week ago Minister dismisses US misgivings over Chinese 'super embassy' in London

Minister dismisses US misgivings over Chinese 'super embassy' in London - as Tories warn of 'espionage base'  Sky News

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2 w. ago ‘Britain has gone to hell’, says John Fredriksen after shutting London base

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2 w. ago John Healey refuses to rule out tax rises to fund £14bn rearmament drive... as Nato prepares to set even HIGHER target of spending 3.5% of GDP on defence

Defence Secretary John Healey insisted he was '100 per cent confident' that the government will be able to ramp up spending to 3 per cent of GDP.

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2 w. ago John Healey refuses to rule out tax rises to fund £12bn drive to make Britain 'war

Defence Secretary John Healey insisted he was '100 per cent confident' that the government will be able to ramp up spending to 3 per cent of GDP.

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2 w. ago Putin threat of biological attack on UK streets: Novichok poisonings in Salisbury were 'wake

The Novichok poisoning in Salisbury were a “wake-up call” to the threat from Vladimir Putin’s Russia of a chemical or biological attack on Britain’s streets, says Defence Secretary John Healey.

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2 w. ago Wallace Collection picks National Gallery architect to revamp its London base

Wallace Collection picks National Gallery architect to revamp its London base  The Architects’ Journal

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2 w. ago EastEnders icon reckons aliens have lived amongst us for thousands of years

EastEnders star John Altman has joined Britain’s UFO Disclosure Group because he reckons aliens have been around since 2700BC - and there's cave paintings to prove it

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4 w. ago Rise of UK robot soldiers as British Military to be the 'cutting edge' in battlefield AI

Defence Secretary John Healey has announced plans to take Britain's military to the 'cutting edge' of Artificial Intelligence as he suggested it will have a 'massive impact' on battlefields

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