John Gamblin
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A tiny chalk drawing of a lion by Rembrandt recently sold for the $18m in New York City to benefit the conservation of big cats #art
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Rembrandt lion drawing raises $18m for big cat conservation at US auction
Chalk artwork sold for record price at a New York Sotheby’s auction with proceeds going to the Panthera charity
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February 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A tiny chalk drawing of a lion by Rembrandt recently sold for the $18m in New York City to benefit the conservation of big cats #art
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Gwen John: Strange Beauties review #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude
In a superb, mystical retrospective, the painter sheds social trappings – and her clothes – as she uses her enormous intelligence to paint purely
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February 6, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Gwen John: Strange Beauties review #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
@alandaviescomic.bsky.social good to see you over here Alan. Yes, X has been a no-go for while now!
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
@alandaviescomic.bsky.social good to see you over here Alan. Yes, X has been a no-go for while now!
John Virgo dies aged 79
Snooker legend and BBC commentator John Virgo has died aged 79.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Today’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6447, f. 29r
February 2, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Today’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6447, f. 29r
January 31, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Crossing Into Darkness brings together a group of artists whose works confront the darkness inherent in human experience, not as something to be feared but as a necessary threshold toward renewal. This journey feels both universal and deeply personal. #art
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Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell
Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom
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January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Crossing Into Darkness brings together a group of artists whose works confront the darkness inherent in human experience, not as something to be feared but as a necessary threshold toward renewal. This journey feels both universal and deeply personal. #art
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Truly powerful abstract painting, like Scully’s, has a sense of necessity and inevitability. It expresses mysteries that can’t be put in any other form. #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive
He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Truly powerful abstract painting, like Scully’s, has a sense of necessity and inevitability. It expresses mysteries that can’t be put in any other form. #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive #photography #transport
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What does your car say about you? A global portrait of people and their rides, from Shanghai to Santa Monica
You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive, as Martin Roemers’ collection of photographs show. Introduction by author William Boyd
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January 10, 2026 at 10:19 AM
You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive #photography #transport
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They have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting #fungi
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Fungi: Anarchist Designers review – a perverse plunge into mushroom mayhem, from stinkhorns to zombie-makers
They have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting – though frogs may disagree
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January 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
They have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting #fungi
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