Art Basel Paris: contemporary art on Winston Churchill Avenue
Contemporary art is in the spotlight in Paris this autumn: for the third year running, Art Basel Paris presents artists and ...
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A Monet Masterpiece That Hung in Churchill’s Home Is Now Free of Grime From Cigar Smoke
The newly restored "Charing Cross Bridge," which once hung in the politician's drawing room, is now on display at London's Courtauld Gallery ...
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Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster
Winston Churchill’s penchant for chain smoking cigars no doubt contributed to the build-up of grime on a Claude Monet riverscape in his sitting room. The painting, depicting London’s Charing ...
My grandfather met Winston Churchill in the WWI trenches – he said he liked his hat
After their initial wartime meeting, Paul Maze and Churchill forged a lifelong friendship. Maze, who was born in Le Havre but ...
Haida basketmaker, 94, releases book about her life and craft: ‘I felt so strongly that the weaving art should continue’
A 94-year-old Haida weaver is releasing a new book that she hopes will help ensure that the threads of her culture continue to bind past and future generations.
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10 for Paris Art Week 2024
PM, L’Habilleur Paris, 44 rue de Poitou, 75003, Paris @THEMUST.CO This year, Private Choice moves to a new home in the 16th ...
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Monet’s Obsessive Paintings of the Thames Reunited in London for the First Time in 120 Years
Among the sources of airborne grime to have accumulated on the painting’s surface? As well as soot from the fireplace, potentially smoke from Churchill’s ten Cuban cigars a day, National Trust ...
Te Awamutu art group planning annual public exhibition
Visual artists’ from Rosebank Art Centre and Gallery are preparing to hold their annual exhibition at the Te Awamutu Library ...
Britain should be proud of its history – so why aren’t we?
At some point during the Commonwealth summit in Samoa this week things will get a little awkward. A bloc of 15 Caribbean ...
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Hearts and swans: Local baristas dive into the sweet — and temporal — world of latte art
Latte art, with its fragile, floating white swirls, is temporal. It lasts only as long as the willpower of the person holding ...