Portraits of the ‘black venus’

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Newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse

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23 January, 2026

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Dame mit blumen by hélène de beauvoir

Baroness Jan Royall

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Final analysis

‘Suzanne with Mona Lisa, Mexico City (1981)’ from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1973-86, by Nan Goldin

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Right place, right time

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

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In brief

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

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Weird & wonderful

I BEG you to mention this trip to ...

Amateur Photographer

Final analysis

Self-portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1896

Country Life

Dame mit blumen by hélène de beauvoir

Baroness Jan Royall

Amateur Photographer

Final analysis

‘Suzanne with Mona Lisa, Mexico City (1981)’ from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1973-86, by Nan Goldin

The TLS

Right place, right time

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

I BEG you to mention this trip to ...

Amateur Photographer

Final analysis

Self-portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1896

Portraits of the ‘black venus’

The TLS Magazine

23 January, 2026

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