formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Picasso defiled the refined genre of fine art prints with brutal images of violence and desecration, in one case portraying a bearded artist relaxing with his best mate the Minotaur. Source: Picasso: Printmaker review – filthy fairytales of sex, death … Continued
Since its inception in 1967, the Montreux jazz festival in Switzerland has hosted a dizzying array of musical talent from the world of jazz and beyond: Ella Fitzgerald, David Bowie and Miles Davis, and more recently Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga … Continued
The BBC gets access to a secret room under the Medici Chapel in Florence, where Michelangelo took refuge during political upheaval. Source: A look inside Michelangelo’s ‘secret room’
A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet’s revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would “irreversibly alter how London saw itself”. Source: ‘A mesmerising mirage’: How Monet’s paintings changed the way we see London
After the death of Liam Payne at 31, music industry figures are debating the duty of care for artists who find fame at a young age – some have suggested an all-out ban might be the solution. Source: Should there … Continued
Inspired by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who believed streets fostered disease, a vision of Britain was cooked up that would see historic city centres flattened for flats and ring roads. But the public decided they’d had enough – and took … Continued