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Richard Brooks

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Richard Brooks is a writer and editor specialising in arts and culture

March 2025

  • Carl ARP warden 1940-41 by Olga Lehmann.

    Britain’s ‘trailblazing’ female war artists finally come out of the shadows

    A new exhibition and documentary celebrate the women who have been undervalued for years

February 2025

  • Judi Dench in Antony and Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre, London in 1987

    ‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra

  • Barbara Hepworth, leaning on a plinth holding one of her smaller stringed sculptures, at Trewyn Studio in 1958

    Barbara Hepworth sculptures exhibited in public for first time

January 2025

  • British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985

    ‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

    New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

December 2024

  • An ornate signature, 'Elizabeth I' with a flamboyant 'z' on an old manuscript

    Letters from Lord Byron, Elizabeth I and Benjamin Franklin among collection discovered in British stately home

    Rare autographed cache found by researcher at National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor

November 2024

  • From left, Mark De-Lisser, Edmund Rudder and Marcellous Copeland pose in front of the original photo at Tate Britain

    Who are the shellsuit boys in image that captures the 1980s? New Tate Britain show solves mystery

    Friends who posed for celebrated photographer Ingrid Pollard in 1989 are reunited for new picture 35 years later
  • The portrait, attributed to Susannah Horenbout, which was thought to be Katherine Parr but has now been identified as Mary.

    After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

    Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
  • Art on display at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth

    ‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better

    Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studies

September 2024

  • Frederic Leighton, Bay of Cadiz - Moonlight, c. 1866

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

    Painter’s Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight, bought by Leighton House Museum in June, will star in November exhibition

July 2024

  • Former Tory party chair Ben Elliot was rumoured to be Downing Street’s favourite candidate for the V&A chair.

    ‘Political’ search for new V&A chair mired in accusations of cronyism

    Coveted post at London arts institution tainted by process widened to include the Cabinet Office and Downing Street

June 2024

  • Alfie Friedman in rehearsal for Dorian: the Musical

    Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

  • Head of Caligula, The Schroder Collection Bronze bust of Roman emperor Caligula found after 200 years

    ‘They had no idea it was Caligula’: bronze bust of Roman emperor found after 200 years

May 2024

  • LS Lowry, On the Sands, Berwick (1959).

    ‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’: Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

    When on holiday in Berwick the artist often gave his work away. Now a new exhibition reveals the value of drawings that survived in a shoebox

April 2024

  • The artist Augustus John in 1951 when he was 73.

    ‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works

  • Contestants from Love Island

    TV has become exploitative and cruel, says Ofcom chair Michael Grade

March 2024

  • The Finnish edition of The Snowman with author’s notes

    ‘Not a parable about death’: Raymond Briggs’s notes set record straight for The Snowman

    Remarks scribbled in a Finnish copy of the much-loved book, to be featured in an exhibition on the author, reveal how the story was misunderstood

February 2024

  • The aftermath of violent clashes in Derry, August 1969.

    ‘The bloody Protestants ran BBC in Northern Ireland’ in 60s and 70s, says ex-TV boss

    Former BBC One controller Paul Fox says anti-Catholic prejudice was deeply embedded at the corporation during the Troubles

December 2023

  • Donna Ashworth

    Poetry sales boom as Instagram and Facebook take work to new audiences

    Writing and reading poems is no longer a minority pastime as verse overlaps with self-help genre and classics are revisited

November 2023

  • Old photograph of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, with short wavy hair and wearing a slightly fuzzy-looking jacket

    Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage

    Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light

October 2023

  • Black patent leather women's shoes with very high heels, bright red soles and aggressive studs all over the uppers

    From poverty clogs to killer heels: the 1,000-year story of British footwear

    A new exhibition traces the social history of the nation through 60 pairs of shoes
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