Posts Tagged ‘ Art and design ’

He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendoThis summer, 128 years ...
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The Duke of Edinburgh's impressionist painting of his wife, kept in his private collection since 1965, will be included in a book to be published on MondayShe has been painted by just about every famous artist from Annigonni to Lucian Freud, but perhap...
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Bradley is one of more than 100 poets who have contributed to an anthology of polemical poetry damning the Coalition spending cuts
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The former prime minister wearing a poppy in Jonathan Yeo's portrait was no coincidence. It was the first step in a deliberate plan to influence his political legacyIn January 2008, a portrait of Tony Blair by Jonathan Yeo was unveiled in which the for...
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Artist Catherine Anyango tells how her richly-detailed drawings reflect the dense style of Joseph Conrad's savage colonial storyIn the 108 years since it was published, Joseph Conrad's colonial fable Heart of Darkness has infected TS Eliot, been excori...
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Rather than oppose a proposed statue of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, should critics not welcome it as a chance to highlight his racist practices in Africa?There's a row going on up in Denbigh, and on the letters page of the Daily Telegraph. Fifty...
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Christopher Hitchens's conversion to the Bush administration's cause is still mystifying, but anyone who checks out his autobiography won't deny his lifelong bravery as a journalistChristopher Hitchens opens his memoir Hitch-22 with a story about a fal...
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As the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, Tony Penrose grew up surrounded by famous artists. Here, he talks about the day he bit Picasso during a game – and how he was bitten backFarley Farm House in Sussex has an 18th-century, self-effacing, red-...
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Acerbic cartoonist whose work was suffused with angstIn an interview with the small magazine Emergency Horse, the cartoonist John Callahan, who has died aged 59 of respiratory failure, stated: "I like everything that has to do with the extreme, with an...
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In a new book from the British Museum, haiku from some of the greatest exponents of the form - Basho, Buson and Issa - sit alongside exquisite prints of the creatures they describe
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