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Propaganda at the British Library

Bob Chaundy | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Bob Chaundy

The history of propaganda is just one aspect of the British Library's new exhibition entitled Propaganda: Power and Persuasion. In a series of six sections, it deploys some 200 exhibits - pamphlets, posters, ephemera such as coins and banknotes, quotations, film and interviews - to explore the different ways in which propaganda has been used.

How To Explore Game Of Thrones Territory In Northern Ireland

Michael Macaroon | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Game of Thrones, the worldwide blockbuster based on the fantasy dynastic sagas by George R.R. Martin, has set a new standard for television drama, bot...

40 Days: Art Exhibition Review

Sumeet Grover | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Sumeet Grover

The main exhibition room features stories of destruction of both Christian and Palestinian identities. On the walls, we have pictures of hate messages against Palestinian Christians in the form of vandalism of their ancestors' graves in a cemetery in Lod to the extent that skulls and bones are visible in open air.

David Inshaw: 'The Greatest Living Proponent of the English Romantic Tradition'

Robert Upstone | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Robert Upstone

On the eve of The Fine Art Society's major David Inshaw exhibition, Robert Upstone considers what it is that makes his work so important

Maslenitsa Festival Opens in London with Russian Photography Exhibition

Theodora Clarke | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Theodora Clarke

London's City Hall will play host over the next two weeks to a selection of surprising and unexpected views of Russian architectural landscapes. 'Abstraction/Constructivism: British and Russian Responses to the City' documents urban life from both British and Russian perspectives.

Foals Cover Artist To Exhibit In London

Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Entertainment

As music critics fall over themselves to laud the latest album by Oxford rock band Foals, the artist responsible for ‘Holy Fire’s cover art is set...

Exhibition Review: 'Mannequin - le corps de la mode' (Paris)

Kate Lawson | Posted 04.05.2013 | UK Style
Kate Lawson

'Mannequin, Le Corps de la Mode' (Model - the Body of Fashion) is an exhibition currently on show in Paris at Les Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Desig...

'You Are So Ugly... '

Robin Lee | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Robin Lee

About 12 months ago I became mildly fixated with people's use of the word 'ugly'. I began hearing it far too much, used not when describing buildings or cars, but other people. To me, if you describe anyone as ugly, you are the ugly one, cos you're ugly in your soul...

Modern British Murals

Robert Upstone | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Robert Upstone

To coincide with the publication of an important new study of British Murals in the Twentieth Century, The Fine Art Society in London has staged a major exhibition of these important works.

While They Were Sleeping

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 05.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle

What started out as an academic art project has developed into a series of beautiful images that capture how couples move during their slumber hours. ...

Fashion x Music: From the Club to the Catwalk at The V&A

Kate Lawson | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK Style
Kate Lawson

Oh the 80s, the era that kept neon light manufacturers in business, rhinestone cameo brooches sparkling against our spiked glasses of Sodastream and Italian dance diva Spagna's spiky mane burning tiny holes in our eyes - aww, I remember it well.

A Question of Colour at Somerset House

Emily Luxton | Posted 27.01.2013 | Home
Emily Luxton

Although not all the answers are there, A Question of Colour is certainly a good response to Cartier-Bresson's unintended challenge. If anything, the exhibition shows how the development of colour photography over time has given a new dimension to street photography.

Russian Art Week Launched in London this November

Theodora Clarke | Posted 21.01.2013 | Home
Theodora Clarke

On Thursday Russian Art Week will open in London. This is a major new event in the arts calendar in the United Kingdom. The project was set up by the online magazine Russian Art & Culture in conjunction with the major auction houses and galleries.

Rolling Stones Captured on Tour in 'Rip This Joint'

Clive Crump | Posted 20.01.2013 | UK Entertainment
Clive Crump

Jim Marshall's photos of perhaps the most celebrated rock tour in history remind us of what made the Stones special in the first place. While nothing harder than a bottle of Jack Daniels is actually on display, dark shadows of heroin loom over shots of Keith nodding out over his guitar and some of Mick's wired facial grimaces scream cocaine.

Bowling With George Best and Politics With Jayne Mansfield

James Payne | Posted 09.01.2013 | Home
James Payne

Neil Libbert is a photojournalist whose career spans 55 years. He has taken images of some of the worlds most famous people from George Best when he was nineteen to Winston Churchill at 88 years old.

On the Road Unfurled Before Me

Amy Freeborn | Posted 10.12.2012 | Home
Amy Freeborn

I've read the book, I've read the books about the book, I've seen the movie adaptation, and now I have had the pleasure of seeing the holiest of holies of the Beat Generation - the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's novel, On The Road.

Huffington Post Picture Desk Live: 3rd October 2012

Posted 04.10.2012 | UK

Scroll down for some of the best news, entertainment, culture and sports pictures from around the world, brought to you by The Huffington Post's Pictu...

Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography

Christina Lindsay | Posted 30.11.2012 | Home
Christina Lindsay

As part of the V&A Dundee project, the latest exhibition to come to The McManus (Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum) is Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fash...

David Inshaw in Conversation

Robert Upstone | Posted 24.11.2012 | Home
Robert Upstone

There can be few British Art lovers unfamiliar with David Inshaw's painting The Badminton Game. On the eve of his 70th birthday and a major new exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Robert Upstone went to visit him in Wiltshire.

Ronnie Wood's Art: Are We Just Indulging The Old Rockers Now?

The Huffington Post UK | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 08.08.2012 | Home

We all know that this year marks the 50th anniversary since the Rolling Stones formed. And, much to the dubious excitement of the band's fans, artwork...

The Crown

Diego Giolitti | Posted 12.09.2012 | Home
Diego Giolitti

I am pleased to present The Crown, a photographic exhibition that is "the multicultural trash-dreaming" vision of The Fourth Height, a Russian collective of three artists: Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva, and Gala Smirnskaya.

We, The Sheeple

The Huffington Post UK | Becky Brewis | Posted 13.06.2012 | Home

Sheep are a fixture in fields and nursery rhymes - rarely in contemporary art. But this series of photographs by award-winning photographer Davide...

How Does Your Garden Glow?

The Huffington Post UK | Becky Brewis | Posted 19.06.2012 | Home

Artists have always been fascinated by capturing landscapes, but it is not often they get the chance to build their own. But in a public garden in...

Dita Von Teese's Style Obsession

www.mydaily.co.uk | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Style

Dita Von Teese has been in London the last few nights, celebrating the launch of both the Christian Louboutin 20th anniversary exhibition, and her new...

Your Photo in the Fantastic FOTO8 Summershow - Last Chance!

Paul Steele | Posted 02.07.2012 | Home
Paul Steele

The FOTO8 Summershow 2012, the UK's only open-entry, annual photography show is centred around the premise that our photographs can provide compelling and powerful ways of seeing the world and create debate over what makes a great photograph.