Jon Snow
Jon Snow meets The Snowman
When Raymond Briggs writes a book he has no sense of who will read it, merely that he is on a journey and he seems almost surprised that anyone wants to join him on it.
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Creative treatment for PTSD
Former soldiers are finding creative ways to cope with their mental illness. An exhibition by the organisation Style for Soldiers has been showcasing artworks by medically discharged servicemen suffering from PTSD and brain injuries. Their work often reveals the impact of the ‘invisible wounds’ left by war.
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Portraits in the sand: artwork honours The Fallen on Britain’s beaches
On beaches throughout the British Isles people have come together to mark the centenary of the Armistice.
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Dutch artwork reunites Peak District valley with ocean
A virtual flood has come to a valley in Derbyshire. As part of an arts festival in the Peak District, Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has filled the landscape with LED light to reveal its geological and glacial history.
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Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, Soul of a Nation, opens in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement in America. Through the work of more than 60 artists, it charts 20 years of the African-American struggle for acceptance and integration – the journey of Martin Luther King’s dream from hope to disillusion. But it…
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See inside Banksy’s new Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem
The Walled Off Hotel is a few metres from a stretch of the controversial West Bank barrier which has been heavily decorated by artists.
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Is art education struggling in the school curriculum?
Art education is marginalised in classrooms and under systemic assault.
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Acting with autism
In a breakthrough in drama casting, an autistic actor has joined the cast of the hospital drama Holby City.
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Jon Snow
The once in a lifetime Leonardo
Was there perhaps a blue moon last night? Somehow I found myself with just three other people alone in the incredible Leonardo da Vinci block-buster exhibition at London’s National Gallery.
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Jon Snow
Miro, Miro on the wall …Mirror of our tortured souls?
“Maybe this is what art does – exercises our present emotions with the consequences of other times experienced by the artist’s head and eye.”
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Banksy does Bart
Banksy has done the opening couch sequence to the new episode of The Simpsons. Krishnan Guru-Murthy, one of the few journalists to have met Banksy in the flesh asks : is it Bart?
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Jon Snow
What's in a severed head?
John Snow gives his views of the Sacred Made Real show at the National Gallery in London.
