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• Drawers Off: The Big Naked Painting Challenge review – a gentle teatime treat

  30-05-2022 19:00
  
  Jenny Eclair is back with more amateur artists sketching nudes for a prize – and one finds it so awkward he can barely draw life model Roy’s body. What funI had almost forgotten about daytime programming. Work, school pickup, standing like a prison officer over homework, making tea, eating my own, doing bedtime (“The end of shit o’clock” as an equally weary friend puts it) means I haven’t turned the telly on before 9pm for five years or more.I’d forgotte
  
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• Smog, glorious smog: how Monet saw through London’s poisonous wealth

  30-05-2022 17:06
  
  The Frenchman was transfixed by the light he saw in the polluted city. But his misty painting of Waterloo Bridge, about to go under the hammer for an expected £24m, was anything but romantic Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Brume is going for a song. I’d say £24m, the minimum price Christie’s expect for this almost minimalist masterpiece, is cheap, at least by the standards of the nutty art market. If an Andy Warhol is worth more than £158m, and a Pica
  
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• Rewatching Frances Ha, Ten Years On

  30-05-2022 17:00 via lithub.com
  
  Picture Frances “as she whips out her phone and bursts, ‘I just got a tax rebate! Want to go to dinner?’ (I did not know a decade ago that this would become the most relatable five seconds in the whole of cinema. Alas.)” – LitHub
  
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• Tracey Emin review – fiercely honest artist bares body and soul

  30-05-2022 15:11
  
  Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
  Taking to her famous bed once more, Emin returns after bladder cancer to invite us into the most intimate crevices of her life For a woman I have only met from a distance for about 10 minutes, I have seen Tracey Emin’s bottom an awful lot. I have seen it in ink, in paint, in bronze and on film. Sometimes it is pink and shapely, other times it is tilted in provocation or in the grasp of a lover. It appears in much of Emin’s new work at Jupiter Artland in I L
  
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• Waterloo Bridge masterpiece by Claude Monet expected to sell for £24m

  30-05-2022 01:01
  
  Work is part of a series painted by the artist while he stayed at Savoy hotel with views across the ThamesAn “iconic work” by the impressionist master Claude Monet that has been in the same family for more than 70 years is expected to sell for at least £24m ($30m) next month.Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Brume is one of 41 paintings by Monet of the bridge across the Thames. In terms of capturing light and atmosphere, this painting is “what he was striving for – it is a
  
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