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• An old smock and 60 cigs a day: Peter James learns tricks of art forger’s trade

  04-09-2022 14:24
  The bestselling crime writer spent time with a former master faker as he researched his latest novelThey are the tricks of the art forger’s trade: from wearing 18th-century smocks (fibres in the paint) to ageing paintings for weeks in front of wood-burning stoves (cracks) or having someone smoke 60 cigarettes a day alongside an artwork (patina).And they have been shared with the bestselling crime writer Peter James for his forthcoming novel about the world of fakes and forgeries, and who h
  
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• Léon Wuidar review – exquisite blueprints for imagined places

  04-09-2022 14:00
  White Cube Masons Yard, London
  Secret passages, bunkers, dead ends… memories of his wartime childhood are suggested by the Belgian artist’s playful, highly architectural geometric abstraction in this revelatory showLéon Wuidar is a strange and captivating painter, famous in his native Belgium yet still barely known here. His art is generally described as a form of geometric abstraction, but the description seems entirely inadequate. His paintings are slow, meticulous, exquisi
  
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• Poetic justice: WB Yeats’s time in London to be celebrated at last

  04-09-2022 09:00
  Years of campaigning will come to fruition this week with the unveiling of a sculpture in Bedford Park to the great writerHomesickness often brings fellow expats together and drives the creative impulse, prompting exiled artists to pick up the brush, or poets the pen. So the unveiling this week of a new tribute to the burning 20th-century Irish talent who wrote of the land of his birth from the English capital should not be a surprise.What is perhaps surprising is how long it has taken. William
  
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