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• The crown should consider the restitution of cultural artefacts | Letters

  15-11-2024 18:26
  Unparalleled collections hidden from public view got Mary Evans thinkingYour report on the return of art looted by the Nazis (10 November) also refers to campaigns for returning artworks now held in the global north to their countries of origin. Mentioned are collections in museums and other institutions. Among those institutions should be the crown, which holds unparalleled collections of art of various kinds, the great majority of it never seen in public. While we might wish the British Museum
  
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• Timothy Hyman obituary

  15-11-2024 17:35
  
  My friend Timothy Hyman, who has died aged 78, was an artist, writer and teacher. His canvases and drawings celebrated his love of London, reflecting his allegiance to the north and east of the city.As a teenager, Timothy was introduced to artists and writers destined to shape him – Sienese painters, Pierre Bonnard and John Cowper Powys – and made a solo trip to Siena in 1963, aged 17. Continue reading...
  
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• 80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art

  15-11-2024 12:00
  
  Plus: a magical Picasso print, a farewell to Frank Auerbach and polyamorous bohemian Dora Carrington gets her own show– all in your weekly dispatchThe 80s: Photographing BritainReel around the fountain with this trip down memory lane to a decade of social division, war and riots.
  • Tate Britain, London, 21 November to 5 May Continue reading...
  
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