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• On my radar: Chris Ware’s cultural highlights

  05-11-2017 09:00
  The American cartoonist on Alexander Payne’s devastating new satire, the young graphic novelist he’s most excited about and the BBC series he pays to have airmailed across the AtlanticBorn in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1967, Chris Ware started doing comic strips when he was studying at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was invited by fellow cartoonist Art Spiegelman to contribute to anthology magazine Raw. A regular contributor of covers and cartoons to the New Yorker, since 1993
  
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• Impressionists in London; Monochrome: Painting in Black and White – review

  05-11-2017 09:00
  Tate Britain; National Gallery, London
  One glowing gallery of the artist’s Thames paintings is the sole highlight of Tate Britain’s latest show. Elsewhere, things aren’t as colourless as they seem…Reader beware. Impressionists in London is a blatant misnomer. I have never seen a show with a more misleading title. Many of the works here are not by impressionists; some precede or postdate impressionism; still others are pedestrian or bafflingly irrelevant. London may be th
  
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