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Fixing Our Broken Planet: Preachy? No, the Natural History Museum’s gallery gives you hope
The new permanent gallery could have been doom-laden and sanctimonious but, thankfully, this is a carefully curated exhibition of expertise
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‘A love of order and control’: how Lord Nelson’s handwriting revealed his secret character
A new exhibition of letters at Waddesdon Manor exposes the private lives of famous figures – including the war hero’s personality change
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The illicit love affairs behind these notorious paintings
What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend’s entertaining canter through art-historical romances, takes us from Jan Steen to Frida Kahlo
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Meet the most frugal monks and nuns who ever lived
Andrew Jotischky’s history of cloistered life, The Monastic World, has masterful range – but risks becoming as ascetic as its subjects
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Aphra Behn: the 17th-century spy at the heart of a sex scandal
The great and elusive playwright is given a new, but far from convincing, origin story in Lisa Hilton’s Scandal of the Century
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Henry Moore in Miniature: And you thought Britain’s greatest sculptor only made grand gestures
This delightful new show showcases Moore’s smaller works, including experimentations and maquettes – the results are revelatory
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‘Royal whore’ or feminist hero? The scandalous truth about Johnny Depp’s Jeanne du Barry
A low-born courtesan who became the Louis XV’s favourite mistress, du Barry slept her way to the top – until her inevitable, grisly end
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The little people who kindle architects’ strangest desires
The tiny figures, known as ‘staffage’, were crucial to indicate a building’s purpose and scale. But some architects had more fun with them
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Grayson Perry – the Essex House Tapestries: the fun, touching chronicle of a made-up life less ordinary
Readily viewable in a gallery as never before, this pair of huge works about Perry’s fictional heroine Julie Cope are a real treat
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Untold Lives: a fascinating peek below stairs at a royal palace
Kensington Palace’s new show is a brilliant display of social history shining fresh light on those who have kept such residences running
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The great, forgotten female writers of Shakespeare’s lifetime
Ramie Targoff's book Shakespeare's Sisters celebrates trailblazing writers, from the first Englishwoman to publish a play to a feminist poet
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Victorian Radicals: Birmingham’s Gas Hall reopens with a big, beautiful and slightly baggy show
This sprawling but often brilliant exhibition is the first of the museum's galleries to open its doors again after Covid
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Quentin Blake: Now: the Roald Dahl illustrator shows a deliciously dark side
His work for children’s books has often had a nastily funny edge, but here we a see previously hidden dimension of the artist's work
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Carl Andre was a great sculptor – but was he also a murderer?
The American artist, who died this week, was dogged by accusations about the brutal death of his equally talented wife Ana Mendieta
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Warhol: The Textiles, review: fascinating snapshots of the Pop genius’s art before he was famous
This unusual show reveals the artist toying with consumerism long before he turned to the iconography of American capitalism
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The brilliant Renaissance artist who ‘lived in filth and ate only eggs’
Piero di Cosimo’s bizarre paintings inspired the Surrealists – and are celebrated in Sarah Blake McHam’s myth-busting new study
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