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• Joy and nakedness at San Francisco’s Dyke March: Phyllis Christopher’s best photograph

  12-01-2022 17:18
  
  ‘The march is like a lesbian Christmas – the biggest night of the year, where women celebrate half naked and anything goes’In San Francisco, the night before the annual Pride parade is reserved for the Dyke March, a celebration of lesbian life throughout the city. It was like our Christmas – the biggest night of the year – and half of us would be so hungover we wouldn’t make it to Pride the next day.I remember getting a call from an editor at On Our Backs, a l
  
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• National Gallery to reconnect Britain with giant of US art Winslow Homer

  12-01-2022 16:43
  
  Exhibition to tell story of painter’s move to seaside village in north-east England in 1881 He is a superstar artist in the US, revered for powerful civil war scenes and dramatic coastal storms, but Winslow Homer is barely known in the UK. Even less well known is the importance of an English seaside village in making him the truly great painter he became.The National Gallery will this year aim to correct that with the first in-depth exhibition of Homer’s art ever staged in the UK. Co
  
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• Magritte masterpiece expected to sell for record £45m at auction

  12-01-2022 11:51
  
  L’empire des lumières depicts street in Brussels thought to be near where the Belgian surrealist livedA masterpiece by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, described as one of the most desirable works in private hands, is expected to sell for a record-breaking £45m when it goes to auction for the first time this year.Helena Newman, chair of Sotheby’s Europe, said the “show stopping” painting, L’empire des lumières, depicting a street at n
  
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