5 h. ago Dead primary teacher was exposed to asbestos while pinning art to walls, family fear

Marlene Broad died after being diagnosed with the cancer mesothelioma in 2024 but before her death she believed she was exposed to asbestos while putting art up in her classroom

Society

26 h. ago Fears primary teacher exposed to asbestos while pinning kids' art to walls

Marlene Broad, who worked at the same school for 40 years, died in January last year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Politics

8 d. ago Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery

Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things aroundAs Los Angeles county’s new $720m art museum building nears completion, it’s still haunted by a single, vexing question: how do you hang art in a gallery where every single wall is made of massive slabs of concrete?Designed by Peter Zumthor, a prizewinning Swiss architect, the new building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) has sparked controversy in the art world since its initial designs were made public in 2013. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago "I'm in fear for my family's life": Murder trial hears call to police

The prison officer and dad-of-three had been "murdered as an act of retaliation", the court has been told

Events

2 w. ago Mum, 40, and daughter, 8, found dead at home as more details heard into tragedy

An inquest has started into the deaths of mother and daughter Martina Karos and Eleni Edwards

Events

2 w. ago Loyle Carner: Hopefully! review – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels | Album of the week

(Island EMI)The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yetLoyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes. Wonder, nostalgia, love, hurt, excitement, hard-won peace: these are the emotions his voice tends to catch on. When combined with his typically blissed-out sonics – feathery breakbeats, dreamy piano figures, delicate synth washes, gently plucked guitars – the results are often very nice. Sometimes a bit too nice. So it is on Feel at Home, the sentimental love song that opens the 30-year-old’s fourth album, Hopefully!Carner – whose moniker is a spoonerism of his real name, Benjamin Coyle-Larner – never makes music that is boring or basic. As well as the slushy lyrics and comfortingly toasty chords, Feel at Home is buttressed by madly skittering percussion and what sounds like a blurry reproduction of young children’s playground chatter. But much like the outp...

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2 w. ago Preview the Royal Academy summer show’s heady new architecture

Preview the Royal Academy summer show’s heady new architecture-and-art mix  wallpaper.com

Events

3 w. ago Art for Everybody review – the dark side of Thomas Kinkade, ‘painter of light’

The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works showsYou won’t find the works of Thomas Kinkade lining the walls of the Museum of Modern Art, yet the painter, who died in 2012, is one of the best-selling artists in history and his paintings hang in tens of millions of American households. Kinkade’s typical subjects – rustic landscapes, sleepy cottages, quaint gazebos – bask in an idyllic calm, a luminous callback to a fabled simpler past. Turning to his unpublished archive, Miranda Yousef’s engrossing documentary portrait unveils the dark shadows that lurked within the self-titled “painter of light”.Through interviews with family members, close collaborators and critics, as well as Kinkade’s own words, the film traces his meteoric success in the 1980s and 90s. Shunned by the art world, he marketed his works through home-shopping television channels and a network of f...

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4 w. ago Dunelm shoppers race to buy £36 wall art after waiting for it 'come back in stock'

'Lovely piece of wall art. Finishes off my bedroom perfectly. Love it.'

Economics

last month Every parent's nightmare as respected teacher exposed as paedophile who preyed on young girls

Simon Clark posed as a teenage boy on Snapchat to groom his victims into sending him naked images

Society