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Art

First Ladies
Art history

What do first ladies' portraits reveal?

By Cath Pound

Life Meets Art, Phaidon
The Collection
Inside the homes of remarkable artists
By Andrea Marechal Watson
Emma Lewis
The Collection
Why we need soft textures right now
By Dominic Lutyens
Alamy
Art
Tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
By Lucinda Hawksley
Getty Images
Art
What plague art tells us about today
By Emily Kasriel
LA Culture Traveller/ Santa Rita
The Collection
The culture that defines Los Angeles
By Cath Pound
(Credit: RMN-Grand Palais, Musée National Picasso/ Adrien Didierjean/ Succession /DACS)
Art
The chaotic habit behind Picasso's work
By Daisy Dunn
Whitney Museum
Art
New York cultural events not to miss
By Lindsay Baker
Culture traveller NY/ Santa Rita
The Collection
The culture that defines New York
By Cath Pound
Doris Day (Credit: Alamy)
Popular culture
Gone but not forgotten
Culture
(Credit: 2018 Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS))
Art
Questioning the American Dream
By Arwa Haider
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ Roger-Viollet
Art
Intimate images of a bathing beauty
By Cath Pound
(Credit: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyen Âge) / M Urtado)
State of the Art
Our enduring love of unicorns
By Alastair Sooke
Nude with Poppies, 1916, by Vanessa Bell, one of the Bloomsbury group whose creative and romantic relationships were famously unconventional (Credit: Swindon Art Gallery)
Art
The art of the ménage à trois
By Holly Williams
The US flag above the White House flies at half-mast (Credit: Getty Images)
In the Frame
Controversial depictions of the US flag
By Kelly Grovier
(Credit: EPA)
Art
History’s strangest makeovers
By Kelly Grovier
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