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‘I don’t need LSD for things to look pretty,’ says Ellen, the artist protagonist of this 1979 New York novel by painter and writer Elaine Kraf (who died in 2013).

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while ...

Any bathroom harbours millions of bacteria in every passing moment. They thrive in the warm, moist folds of a shower curtain left after a morning or nightly rinse. They breed in the soap-scummed ...

New Pope announced and India and Pakistan tensions escalate. A Hastings woman who lost her dog and home to a fire is describing one of the finds among the ruins as “the miracle piece”. Heather ...

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Now, portraits are fascinating. There’s this famous quote from Vasari, from the Renaissance: They make the absent present, they make the dead come to life. I’m paraphrasing wildly. But they ...

Porcelain, a more dense and less porous type of ceramic, is another great option to consider. Han recommends the Lino coffee mug from NotNeutral. "Made from high-quality porcelain, it has a wide ...