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• Frederic Leighton’s only known painting of moon over water to go on show after being lost for a century

  07-09-2024 12:00
  
  Painter’s Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight, bought by Leighton House Museum in June, will star in November exhibitionHe was the most distinguished artist of the late 19th century – a grandee who entertained Queen Victoria at his home in Holland Park and was president of the Royal Academy for nearly two decades.Frederic Leighton was feted for his portraits of women, especially his stunning Flaming June, currently the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Royal Academy. But he actually preferred
  
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• ‘I wanted hairstyles that would complement the extravagant surf vibe’: Fede Kortez’s best phone shot

  07-09-2024 11:00
  
  The photographer co-opted hair artist Afro Ele to find the perfect rip curlLast year, visual artist Fede Kortez travelled to the west of Ghana to direct a documentary on surfers. His base was Busua Beach, well known for attracting the worldwide surfing community to its swells. Kortez took a day out of the documentary schedule for the shoot, the idea for which he had been ruminating on for more than a year.“I wanted to take some boys with their boards and style them up with vibrant hairstyl
  
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• From Starve Acre to Roy Lichtenstein: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  07-09-2024 07:00
  
  Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in a creepy new folk horror, and there’s an exhibition of iconoclastic works by the king of pop artStarve Acre
  Out nowMatt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a couple beset by grief in this powerful adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s dark folk-horror novel. Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, it’s an unsettling trip into earthy, supernatural superstitions, set in rural 1970s Yorkshire. Continue reading...
  
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