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William Graham Anthony, an artist’s artist known for his satirical paintings and drawings, died tragically on December 24, 2022 at the age of 88. His death was caused by complications after rushing into a fire that engulfed his ninth-floor apartment at Westbeth Artists Housing in New York City. It is likely, friends agree, that he rushed into the blazing apartment to save his artwork, which lined the walls of the studio he shared with his wife Norma (née Neuman) for forty years.

In enduring Western pop art such as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? ordinary objects and characters are vividly revealed, and insignificant things are presented dramatically and absurdly.

The Roxy Music star answers your questions on his favourite Newcastle boozers, the influential mentors who shaped his thinking, and the temptation to overproduce everything

120 years of the Whitechapel Gallery - seven landmark moments from Picasso’s Guernica to Frida Kahlo Nancy Durrant It was just a small thing, really. “The finest art of the world for the people of the East End” - that was the ambition of the first trustees of the Whitechapel Gallery, which rose from nothing on Whitechapel High Street to plans by the architect Charles Harrison Townsend (one of the few English masters of Art Nouveau, responsible too for the Horniman Museum i...

January 10, 2021 Even after independence, ‘educated’ citizens have remained ashamed of their first language – and tend to reduce it to conversing with servants. We, in a physiological sense, are the extensions of our mothers. Bodies once part of another flesh; so, wherever we go, grow, we contain our mothers within us. We especially carry one part of our mother, her tongue: the first language we learn to speak. Later on, for various reasons, many of us forget our origins and neglect our m...