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• ‘It’s all just very grimy and filthy’: Gregory Nolan’s photos of the 00s indie scene

  06-01-2025 09:00
  
  The photographer gathered 6,000 images he took at the era’s centre, which offer a hedonistic window into a pre-smartphone era that remains relatively undocumented“I literally got into this by accident,” says Gregory Nolan. “One night in 2004, I accidentally poured a beer over a girl and I got chatting to the guy she was with, who was starting a new club night that very weekend.” The guy in question was Jay McAllister, AKA the indie-folk artist Beans on Toast, w
  
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• The ‘dollar princesses’: Sargent portraits of US women who married into British high society come to UK

  06-01-2025 06:00
  
  Kenwood exhibition seeks to tell fuller story of wealthy American women who crossed the Atlantic for a husbandMargaret “Daisy” Leiter was just 19 when in 1898 she was painted by the most celebrated society portraitist of the age, John Singer Sargent. Leiter, the youngest daughter of an American retail magnate, was a celebrated beauty who was said to have “the loveliest eyes in Washington”.Sargent’s resulting portrait, in which Leiter stands full length, exuberantly
  
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