Arts & Leisure
Sunday Dec 2nd, 2012
Otto Dix and The War
The German artist Otto Dix — born this day in 1881 — drew a remarkable image of himself in 1924 (the tenth anniversary of the beginning of World War I), simply rendered in bold lines of India ink, caricature-like in its exaggerated simplicity. In the drawing we see Dix as he gazes directly out at us through squinting eyes, sporting a small curving mustache, a cigarette dangling from his lips, wearing a battered steel helmet and tattered uniform… read more »
Monday Apr 15th, 2013
Discovering the hermit in the garden
Gordon Campbell on the eighteenth-century craze for ornamental hermits
Monday Mar 11th, 2013
Can art forgers be artists too?
Video interviews with Jonathon Keats on the legitimacy of art forgery
Thursday
Nov 1st, 2012
500th anniversary of the dedication of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling
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