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Holding pattern: The enduring influence of William Morris on film, fashion and designA new exhibition at Walthamstow’s William Morris Gallery traces the legacy of the Arts & Crafts designer on everything from boots to cinema and even a Japanese waving cat.
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A 24-carat coin just sold for £20,000 — and the gold came from the same Welsh mine as the Royal Family's wedding ringsThe Welsh gold mine synonymous with select members of the Royal Family are auctioning off three 24-carat gold coins.
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Terrifying or tremendous? Spend a night at the National Gallery beneath some of the world’s most famous artworksBacchus, his girlfriend Ariadne, Fighting Temeraire and a few sunflowers seek roommate for one night only. No smokers or pets. Rent free.
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You've got mail: Royal Mail unveils eight folklore-inspired stampsThe Loch Ness monster is among Britain's mythical beings that appear on the stamps.
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‘To grasp the momentousness of the reopening, one must understand the place The Frick holds in the hearts of New Yorkers’: Inside the splendour of Fifth Avenue’s beloved galleryThe beloved NYC art museum’s ‘renovation and enhancement project’ manages to both assure and astonish.
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A remarkable $100 million numismatic collection reappears after being buried for more than 50 yearsA collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have resurfaced and will go under the hammer.
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The V&A and Burberry announce landmark Fashion Gallery makeoverThe V&A is renovating one of its largest and most-visited spaces — with support from British fashion house Burberry.
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What lies beneath: The weird and wonderful things lurking in Britain's museum basementsFrom radioactive rocks to great white sharks, and a dolphin called Boris, the things stored in Britain's museum basements make the mind boggle — and now plans are afoot to improve visitor access.
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Seeing you seeing me: How British artists portrayed each other in the 20th and 21st centuriesThe 'Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists' exhibitions comprises paintings, prints, drawings, photography, sculpture and installation spanning 125 years.
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'This is the funnest exhibition London has seen in recent memory': Grayson Perry’s new show at the Wallace Collection explores the delusions of a fictitious woman'Delusions of Grandeur' at the Wallace Collection coincides with a selling exhibition of photography.
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How Cartier became ‘the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers’In the early 20th century, Cartier creations adorned everyone from monarchs and superstar actresses, to American ‘Dollar Princesses’. A blockbuster exhibition at the V&A, featuring more than 350 objects, plans to chart the maison's legacy.
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Go Dutch: Understanding the Duke of Wellington’s passion for Dutch art and how to view his collectionArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was a terrible Prime Minister, but made up for it by being a sophisticated collector.
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One for the pot: Nine of the prettiest vases to gift this Mother's Day, instead of flowersWe typically send our mothers flowers on Mothering Sunday, but what about a vase to hold them in?
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Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RAVictor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition reveals how powerfully they engage the imagination.
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Philip Treacy, Gucci and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, take centre stage at Chatsworth's latest floral-inspired exhibition'The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth’ traverses eras and art forms, raising questions about the environment.
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Lady Jane Grey: How the Nine Day Queen lost her head, but found her face -
Michaelangelo: The good, the bad and the disturbingly ugly of one of art's greatest geniusesWith a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and the enfant ‘terribile’ of the Renaissance, as Michael Hall reveals.
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'Designer, maker, influencer': How Glyndebourne plans to honour Oliver Messel's legacy this summerA century on from his professional debut, Glyndebourne is to stage an exhibition celebrating the visionary 20th century stage designer.
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A new National Gallery exhibition shines a light on Siena’s brief, but dazzling golden ageIn the space of 100 years, Siena's artists redefined painting as an art form and laid the foundations for Renaissance.
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Hastings Contemporary extols life above and below the waves with two new exhibitionsThe threat to fishing communities and the mysteries of life below the waves are explained in two new exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary, East Sussex.
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Playing the fool: The rich history of tarot and how it satisfies our desire for transcendenceOnce an elaborate art form that entertained 15th-century Italian nobility, tarot cards have evolved into a tool of divination. A new exhibition shines a light on their history.
