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• Rediscovered Elizabethan portrait may have been love token for Sir Walter Raleigh

  01-12-2024 11:45
  
  Exclusive: Miniature is thought to be of Elizabeth, Lady Leighton, one of Queen Elizabeth I’s ladies-in-waitingA previously unknown 1580s portrait by Queen Elizabeth I’s official painter has been discovered after languishing for hundreds of years in a private collection.Art experts hailed the “wonderful” discovery of a miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has come to light just as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and all things Tudor are gripping the nation once again. Co
  
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• Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet review – charmingly archaic and constantly prophetic

  01-12-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  This beeping, pulsating show explores 20th-century art’s love-in with technology, from early psychedelia to the dawn of the internetThere is a work in this enthralling show to make you blink and look twice. It’s by the madcap Belgian Pol Bury. On the wall is a large wooden oval sprouting hundreds of fine bristles (think of an enormous hairbrush). Your eyes move over its surface, thoughts perhaps pressing forwards, given the many rooms to go. All of a sudden there
  
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