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• What a carve up! Playful, intricate Japanese leaf art – in pictures

  16-11-2024 18:00
  
  Almost every day for the past five years, the Kanagawa-born artist Lito has drawn an image on to a leaf – usually a jaunty scene from the animal world involving, say, a biker-dude rabbit or a frog in a phone box – and carved it out with a scalpel before posting a photograph to social media. A painstaking process, it nonetheless suits Lito’s “propensity to devote long hours to detailed work” – a diagnosis of ADHD aged 30 was what prompted him to quit his corpor
  
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• What drives you, Frank Auerbach? A rare final encounter with art’s great workaholic

  16-11-2024 17:00
  
  Following the British painter’s death last week, the BBC broadcaster John Wilson recalls a revelatory interview with him at his London homeThere’s a certain romantic allure to the idea of the creative recluse – the artist who insists their work speak for itself. Alongside the Salingers, Kubricks and Garbos, Frank Auerbach always seemed to me to be a promo-dodger. So it was disarming to find myself standing in the cramped galley kitchen of a ground-floor flat in north London wit
  
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• ‘Within others you can find yourself’: Kimboid’s best phone shot

  16-11-2024 11:00
  The photographer captured the unifying anonymity of commuting – though Melbourne’s unpredictable weather certainly played a part‘It was a true Melbourne day of hammering down rain, then the next minute blinding sunlight,” says photographer Kim Wallis, who also goes by Kimboid, of the afternoon she took this photo. “The weather is always an adventure here.”Kimboid describes her city as a melting pot of “five million people who have come from around the gl
  
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• From Gladiator II to Gwen Stefani: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  16-11-2024 07:00
  An all-star return to ancient Rome, and eclectic new sounds from the No Doubt singerGladiator II
  Out nowIt’s tough to get lightning to strike twice, and the first Gladiator film is one of the jewels in director Ridley Scott’s crown. Still, with the likes of Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Denzel Washington slipping into the sandals, togas and bum-skimming tunics, at the very least this is an eye-catchingly cast trip to Rome. Continue reading...
  
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