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In the midst of the horse meat scandal currently cantering through Britain, taking a closer look at your food feels more important than ever. But then again, look too close - as with the 32 foods examined under the microscope in this recent photography project - and you might put...
Works by Tracey Emin and JMW Turner have gone on show in an exhibition on British landscape art. 'Looking For The View' examines how artists have depicted their surroundings during the last 300 years. The Tate Britain show looks at how artists who appear to have little in common take...
In a week when we tend to sentimentalize love, Bridget Minamore recalls getting a glimpse of the real thing in an unlikely place: sat in hospital after breaking her foot. Bridget is a 20-year-old writer and student from London who has won numerous poetry slams across the capital, including
These mend-bending images are the handiwork of Erik Johansson, whose dream-like photo manipulations we've featured before. The 27-year-old artist from Sweden has clearly been revisiting MC Escher, the Dutch graphic artist who popularised 'impossible constructions' like his self-drawing hands in 'Drawing Hands' (1948) and staircases that...
Kicking off a week of original love poetry on HuffPost UK this is James Bunting - a regular performer at Bang said the Gun, Chill Pill and Come Rhyme with Me. You can see him perform at any of these nights in London, or...
It's 50 years ago today that Sylvia Plath lost her life-long battle with depression, and took her own life. Since then her reputation as a poet has grown and grown, but it is still the semi-autobiographical novel 'The Bell Jar' for which she is best known and loved. The story...
Former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens looks set to be swapping one stately home for another as he is the favourite to take a coveted role in a Pride And Prejudice spin-off. The British actor, who played Matthew Crawley in the hit TV show, is lining up new...
Four previously undiscovered letters written by Albert Einstein are to go under the hammer, an auction house has revealed. The Nobel Prize winner wrote the letters, said to be a "unique collection", to socialist philosopher Corliss Lamont, who was accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being "un-American" for his suggestions...
As our bodies, emotions and relationships change from the inside out, we must all ride the hormonal rollercoaster of our teenage years. Irish playwright Ailís Ní Ríain explores the tumultuous adventure of two runaway teenagers in Desolate Heaven, a new piece of writing at Theatre503. Contending...
The glam era of the mid-1970s is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Liverpool. Featuring work by David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman, ‘Glam! The Performance of Style’ looks at the extravagance, experimentation and exhibitionism of the brief but beautiful movement...
Jamaica's first female dub poet, who found fame in the UK, has described her delight at being awarded an MBE - despite criticism from a few of her friends. Jean Breeze has been a leading light in performance poetry after moving to the UK in the 1980s, bringing a distinct...
There's honesty, and then there's madness. Quite where this story falls, we'll let you decide. A library in New York was shocked this month when a book was returned to them - 55 years after it was borrowed. The copy of...
There’s honesty, and then there’s madness. Quite where this story falls, we’ll let you decide. A library in New York was shocked this month when a book was returned to them – 55 years after it was borrowed. The copy of...
In a world where celebrity images are seemingly infinite, there’s something quite refreshing – OK, we mean odd – about Jessie Bowie’s paintings. The US artist, in her own words, "sits at the kitchen table and paints anthropomorphic freaks", the result being Michael Jackson as a tiger, David Bowie as...
Publishing phenomenon James Patterson has tightened his stranglehold on UK libraries as the year's most borrowed author with the most popular title, new figures show. The US writer also has eight books in the top 20 of the most frequently taken out titles - one more than the previous year....
