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• Ashmolean Museum to showcase famous US artists 'unknown' in UK

  03-12-2017 12:13
  Exhibition comprises ‘works of great power’ from household American names barely known beyond its shoresAn exhibition of artists whose works have rarely or never been seen outside the US, dubbed “cool” in the 1920 and 30s when the word signified admirably restrained rather than achingly hip, will open next year at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.Seventeen of of the 83 works have never left the US before, a further 21 have never been seen in the UK, and others haven’t
  
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• On my radar: Craig Charles’s cultural highlights

  03-12-2017 11:00
  The actor and DJ on Jean-Michel Basquiat, horror film Mother!, John Bishop’s chatshow, the magic of Altrincham Market and rising funksters the AllergiesBorn in Liverpool, Craig Charles began his career as a poet, performing on various television and radio programmes. In 1988, he landed the role of Dave Lister in the science-fiction comedy series Red Dwarf; since then, he has had a number of roles on television, including presenting Robot Wars (1998-2004) and playing Lloyd Mullaney in Coron
  
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• Rose Wylie: Quack Quack review – crude, joyous spontaneity

  03-12-2017 09:00
  Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
  Wartime planes, bathtime ducks, a pineapple and Elizabeth I are equally monumental in Wylie’s huge, unfettered canvasesGrand, ungainly and defiantly young – this is the art of Rose Wylie. It is a strange and anomalous combination, especially since she is now 83. Looking at her enormous canvases, which might show a park bench, a film star surrounded by flying ears or a biscuit on its way into someone’s open mouth, you reel at the sheer directne
  
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• Peter Conrad’s best art books of 2017

  03-12-2017 08:00
  A quest for the real Leonardo da Vinci, a memorial to Leonora Carrington and the art in Proust fascinate and illuminateThe definite article in the subtitle of Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography (Simon & Schuster £25.50) says it all – but why should the bestselling biographer of Benjamin Franklin, Einstein and Steve Jobs pretend to false modesty? Isaacson is uniquely well-equipped to write the definitive account of a universal man who was a painter and a musi
  
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• The best art shows this Christmas

  03-12-2017 07:00
  From Dalí’s religious hallucinations and Waqas Kahn’s Sufic mysticism to Susan Philipsz’s take on Bowie’s Starman, here are five exhibitions to revive your spirits in the event of a mince pie meltdownMore to see: Theatre | Carols and concerts | Dance | Comedy | Film | Outdoor funIf you celebrate too hard and find your head swimming, your eyes unfocussed and the world wobbling and melting as you stagger home, you will have entered Salvador Dalí country. The p
  
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