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The work of the poet Maurice Rutherford, who has died aged 103, ranges from love poems and elegies for his late wife to friendly, witty, but sometimes politically trenchant responses to poems by Philip Larkin, and demonstrates that a poet can be…

Like the guard injured during the Worcester Art Museum robbery, security employees rarely carried arms – and, as portrayed mockingly in The Mastermind, they could often be dozy “retirees” or “acid heads”, as Reichardt says, with limited…

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According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a close…

Tame Impala’s work is significant to many.

Whether it be that of the exploratory and ambitious “Mind Mischief,” released on “Lonerism” in 2012, or the ever-present “The Less I Know the Better,” off of “Currents,” leading man…

Visitors to Tate Modern are used to unusual encounters in its vast Turbine Hall. They’ve sunbathed before an artificial sun, slid down helter skelters and witnessed AI-powered robotic jellyfish floating through the air. But this is the first…

On a well-maintained driveway in an unremarkable suburb of Dublin, a small man in a sleeveless jumper is professing a desire to expand his horizons. “I feel myself getting quieter. More invisible,” says Leonard, blinking up at the night sky….

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Merel Vercammen is a violinist who is releasing her album, Rejoice, on Friday 17 October, along with her cellist duo partner, Maya Fridman. Flexing both her musical skills…

If you’re at all familiar with contemporary Latin American photography, you’ve probably encountered the unforgettable image of a Zapotec woman crowned with live iguanas, radiating quiet, unshakable dignity. Captured in 1979 by Graciela…

Authorities in Michigan are saying a three-year-old boy is a hero after he managed to unlock his mother’s phone using her face while she experienced a severe epileptic seizure and then summoned life-saving help on a video call.

Cody James…