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Simon Amstell: How the comedian is peeling away the layers of shame
Simon Amstell has been up to his old tricks again. The comedian, who made his name in the Noughties…
An electric Faust outfit and a pair of kinky boots in V&A’s ‘major refresh’
A fabulous red dress and thigh-high leather boots worn by Lola the drag queen in the musical Kinky Boots are to go…
Golden history of Kazakhstan’s Saka warrior people revealed
Wisdom, as Bob Marley put it, is better than gold. From next month however, the precious metal is central to a…
Orford Ness: the apocalyptic art zone at war with nature
It is one of Britain’s strangest landscapes, a spit of land off the Suffolk coast littered with the rusting junk of…
Richard Hutchins: the homeless artist who became an Oprah-endorsed sensation
On 4 April 2021, Richard Hutchins, 62, watched as a blue truck pulled into the supermarket parking lot at Ralph’s…
Nepal’s National Paddy Day – in pictures
Nepal celebrated National Paddy Day on 29 June. On this day, known as Asar Pandhra, farmers begin the annual rice…
Last Supper painting once adorned Shakespeare’s classroom wall, new research…
New research suggests a painting of the biblical scene the Last Supper once covered a wall of a room in which…
Faces of 850 trans people to follow anticolonial rebel on fourth plinth
Casts of the faces of 850 trans people are to be arranged around the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, central…
William and Harry unveil Diana statue at Kensington Palace
The sons of Diana, Princess of Wales have unveiled a long-awaited statue of her in Kensington Palace.
In the…
Giant horses’ heads and 10-metre sculptures: massive art to see right now
One aspect of art you really cannot get at home – not by looking at it online or even in the most XXL of art books,…