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• Readers reply: is there such a thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art?

  17-03-2024 15:00
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsIs there such a thing as “good” or “bad” art? Ultimately, isn’t it in the eye of the beholder? Karen Halliday, DublinSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
  
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• Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood review – all of life starts here

  17-03-2024 10:00
  
  Arnolfini, Bristol
  Plunging into the joy, heartache, mystery and amazement of motherhood, more than 100 works by artists including Paula Rego, Chantal Joffe and Celia Paul offer a riveting riposte to the infamous pram in the hall“There is no more sombre enemy of good art,” wrote Cyril Connolly, notoriously, “than the pram in the hall.” Have kids, runs his supercilious maxim, and your creativity is well and truly screwed. The fact that great art has been made by parents fo
  
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• Tour-guide sleuth puzzles over identity of painter of reassembled Lamentation Altarpiece

  17-03-2024 07:00
  
  After 14 years of research, Christine Cluley sheds light on the work by a ‘Franconian Master’ now on show at Compton VerneyCould a tour guide, someone regularly working close to great works of art, really solve a puzzle that had defeated other scholars? This was the challenge facing Christine Cluley, one of the long-term “experience interpreters” who takes visitors around the collection at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Now the detective work of the aptly named Cluley ha
  
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