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Fantasy book covers – in pictures

11-06-2016 18:00

A decade-long fascination with wordplay, consumer culture and illustration is what first led Anna Hoyle to start painting imaginary book covers. “I’ll be cooking dinner and I’ll get this silly sentence in my head or this silly bundle of words,” says the Melbourne-based artist. “In my studio I’ve got a long list of words and sentences that are books ready to have their covers illustrated.” Her satirical book titles serve to remind us, she says, that physi

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Suffragist light sculpture marking women's right to vote battle sets British Parliament aglow

11-06-2016 15:06

Parliament's new addition – a six-metre-high light installation – celebrates 150 years since the first petition for women's votes

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Jailed for 40 years, a prisoner reaches the outside world with his art

11-06-2016 13:00

William Burns Livingston III discovered he could draw after being incarcerated – now his work is being collected by the likes of punk legend Ian MacKayeThe Joseph Harp Correctional Center lies on a rolling stretch of land about 10 miles west of Lexington, Oklahoma. It’s an “open-yard” prison that houses nearly 1,800 inmates. When William Burns Livingston III received a transfer there from the Lawton Correctional Facility, a private medium-security prison twice the size an

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Russian artist Petr Pavlensky: 'I saw the machine from the inside'

11-06-2016 10:00

Jailed for setting fire to Moscow’s security HQ, performer says he’ll continue ‘testing the limits’ of political art. RFE/RL reportsControversial Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky was released this week after spending seven months in prison for setting fire to the door of the Federal Security Service in Moscow.He was convicted of damaging a cultural monument but, contrary to fears that he would be given a harsh jail term, was sentenced with a fine of about £5

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