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Ghosts in Words and Pictures — a peek inside Japan’s spooky picture books

Ghosts in Words and Pictures — a peek inside Japan’s spooky picture books

…though examples from ‘Ghost Story Picture Books’ — the popular contemporary horror anthology
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Mitsuki Nonaka
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Cloudbusting in the Big Sky

Cloudbusting in the Big Sky

Recalling when pop videos became cinematic art, with Kate Bush at the vanguard…
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Kim Vertue
Scene of a Deluge: Painting Pre-Romantic Peril

Scene of a Deluge: Painting Pre-Romantic Peril

The surprising story of a radical pre-Romantic painting that was misunderstood in a Neoclassical world…
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
Dance, Dance, Dance!

Dance, Dance, Dance!

Romancing Through Time with the Paintings of Renoir and Vettriano
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Kim Vertue
Japanese Kawaii Culture: Small and Adorable Things Reflect Your Heart

Japanese Kawaii Culture: Small and Adorable Things Reflect Your Heart

Exploring the origins of a soft power built by Japanese artists that now influences the world…
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Yuri Minamide
Living the Nightmare with Saint Anthony

Living the Nightmare with Saint Anthony

Temptation, hallucination, and inspiration — a saint’s misfortune ignites the creativity of artists through the ages.
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Samuel Belleville-Douelle
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Writing to Escape the Words

Writing to Escape the Words

Considering asemic writing, expressive calligraphy, and post-literate abstraction — ancient and modern…
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Remy Dean
Poster Boy

Poster Boy

How Abram Games revolutionised the visual language of the poster to become one of the most influential graphic designers…
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Remy Dean
For the Love of Water-Lilies: Monet’s Final Masterworks

For the Love of Water-Lilies: Monet’s Final Masterworks

Once reviled, now revered, Claude Monet’s series of paintings reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace & celebrate the…
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Kim Vertue
Depletion to Completion

Depletion to Completion

What Félix González-Torres did and didn’t do with his art has become both influential and conspicuous… by absence.
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Remy Dean
Art to Calm Your Climate Anxiety — and inspire creative action

Art to Calm Your Climate Anxiety — and inspire creative action

Finding resilience and resistance through art…
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Esme Garlake
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