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Bengal by Gerry Judah for Tipping Point at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in association with Christian Aid.

India inspires Gerry Judah with its beauty and deprivation

A trip back to the land of his birth led Gerry Judah to create art focusing on its contrasts

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Artist Martin Creed with his poster, Work No. 1273, that has been unveiled as one of the official posters for the London Olympics.

Martin Creed probes man’s psyche in house where Freud lived

Turner Prize-winning artist will ‘talk out loud and think about whatever comes up’ during evening with guitar and slideshow

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Mondo with Octopus

From brush with death to a new life of sculpture

Plumber Mondo Pena explains how he found a different use for his copper and welding gear after a serious road accident

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Dannie Abse @ Keats House

Dannie Abse ponders fleeting inspiration in new poetry collection

Good men, wild men, grave men. As Dylan Thomas once wrote, all must eventually face the dying of the light. For the last four years, however, his compatriot Dannie Abse has looked the other way.

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Theatre programme for the Bedford Palace of Varieties 1912

Film adding to display of Sickert’s music hall paintings

Trailer is providing a snapshot of the hard world of performers from a century ago

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westwood baby

An intimate insight into Vivienne Westwood at the Zebra One Gallery

Fashion icon and her family and celebrity friends feature in exhibition of Opus collection

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Concept visual of the V&A's David Bowie exhibition

David Bowie is - How Geoff Marsh laid Bowie’s life barer than ever before

As the V&A prepares to pay tribute, curator Geoff Marsh tells Alex Bellotti about a legend still making music as a pensioner

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Large Lovers in Paris by Dora Holtzhandler

Dora Holzhandler underlines how kindness can bring happiness

Some of Holzhandler’s paintings will go on display in Belsize Village

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Curious Stones by Peter Webb copyright: Peter Webb

Rolling Stones mark iconic year for Hampstead gallery

Never before seen images of the band are on show in a special year for the Zebra Gallery

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Work by Judy Chicago is contrasted with that of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin in the exhibit

Judy Chicago and friends bring autobiographical art to Ben Uri

Judy Chicago exhibits in London for the first time since 1985

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A painting by Harli Tree

Multiple personalities create a new dimension of art

London Art Therapy Centre in Archway is exhibiting work from an artist with nine personalities

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Rachel Dein's work uses plaster and clay

Golders Green artist’s tactile creations

Rachel Dein has developed a unique process to create something a little bit different

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Education See all

UCS headteacher Kenneth Durham with sixth form students outside the school entrance. Picture: Nigel Sutton.

Outgoing University College School headteacher will miss pupils when he retires

A highly-respected headteacher set to retire after 17 years at the helm of a top Hampstead secondary school says he will miss the company of young people when he leaves.

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Heritage See all

Master brewer Jenna Dunseath, Katherine Ives director of Lauderdale House and Publican Dan Fox outside The Bull, Highgate with some of the ingredients of the new Nell Gwyn inspired beer.

Pub landlord brews special fundraising beer for Lauderdale House project

A Highgate landlord is brewing a special beer to help raise funds for historic Lauderdale House – inspired by a royal mistress who once lived there.

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Obituaries See all

Designer Storm Thorgerson, whose album cover artwork included Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died. Picture: PA/Yui Mok

Obituary: Storm Thorgerson, designer of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon album cover, dies

Pink Floyd album artist Storm Thorgerson has died at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer.

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Do you know your aperture from your depth of field? Cameras can be tricky to use and for most of us we just want to point, press and print these days.

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Around the Web See all

Penguin Ricky the Rockhopper being weighed at London Zoo. The birds put on weight in preparation for the summer months. Picture: ZSL

London Zoo residents expect summer even if no one else does

Whisper it, but summer could be on its way - at least according to penguins at London Zoo.

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