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The Review - FEATURES
Published: 9 August 2007
 
Humanity at its most heroic

‘Art and madness has always been a fascinating topic’ – Howard Hannah previews a new exhibition


IN the old days, artists who had not undergone rigorous fine art training but painted with passion, were regarded as upstarts or not quite the thing. Well there will be... > more
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Little orphan lives revived
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Drawing on the lives of those we don't see
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Unlocking creative potential
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How did cartoons pair start? It's a bit sketchy...
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Yes, Prime Minister - IT was April 1975. A snowy day. I waited in the central lobby of the House of Commons to be taken to lunch. My host was Prime Minister Harold ...>more

Peace from the ashes of destruction - IT is Monday morning in the Basque town of Gernika and the market place is bustling. Market day is the... > more

Unlocking the creative side of the artists behind bars
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IS art redemptive? Can the very act of picking up a pen or a paintbrush touch something in the soul... > more

Boy George, the prodigy who was toast of Europe
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A BUZZ is growing around composer Julian Josephs’ new jazz opera, Bridgetower. And in a matter... > more

Storey for our times
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DAVID Storey, the Booker Prize-winning novelist and playwright, who celebrates his 74th birthday next month, was in open... > more

Distant voices
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BEFORE 1920 nothing in the Chechen language was written down. All of the country’s proud heritage and its many struggles were sung... > more

The naked and the dead
- FIRST impressions always count. So when you see three giant dinosaurs towering above the classical courtyard entrance to the... > more

Take a trip to Africa – in London
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FORGET Bollywood – a celebration of all things African kicks off in London on Saturday. > more

The Tiger author who came out for a chat
- WHEN Judith Kerr was a child in Berlin in the early 1930s, she was impressed when her theatre critic father was... > more

‘Watch Big Brother to see we’re a lousy lot’
- THE BIG row over Celebrity Big Brother “took the manhole cover off the subterranean dirty currents of British racism”... > more

The fast comedian behind Young Bond - CHARLIE Higson spent formative comic time with Harry Enfield on the appropriately named Merryville Estate in Hackney. > more

Jack sets his politics to a classy jazz riff - JACK Shepherd, star of the top-rated 1990s television detective series Wycliffe, is back in north London indulging the two... > more

Why doubt matters to the relaxed Rabbi
- WHEN Lionel Blue told his mother he was going into the ministry, she burst into tears. > more

SPECIAL - BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL
A Private Eye view of a cartoonist’s world - THE cartoonist Michael Heath was evacuated from Bloomsbury to Willow Road in Hampstead during... > more

Dream come true for Bloomsbury - THE Brunswick Centre is buzzing. Shoppers throng the array of stores that now occupy its new glass-fronted arcade. > more

Kicking off a great festival of culture - FEW areas of London conjure up the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Bloomsbury – from the museums and colleges... > more

Virginia’s paper round in the park - IT is easy to forget that Virginia Woolf, the writer seen as one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury set and a standard-bearer... > more

The changing face of The Brunswick Centre - THE Brunswick Centre has become an iconic example of modernist building design. > more
Picasso’s little-known animal period unveiled - PICASSO’S painting of his lover, Dora Maar and her Cat, sold at auction in New York earlier this year for a... > more

Keeping the spirit alive - TWENTY-TWO years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for a crime he has never discussed. > more

Secrets of Prunella's lunchtime monologues - IT is hard to think of Prunella Scales without conjuring up images of Basil’s shrewish wife Sybil in the classic... > more
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