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Medicine without borders

Entrenched resistance to real reform of the NHS means that UK patients are still footing too high a bill for their healthcare. Under pressure from medical associations last week, the government stated that it would not abolish prescription charges in ...

From LUCY DAVIS, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Mar 2009
Related Topics: National Health Service

Time traces: the photographs of Alexey Titarenko

The best analysis and informed comment on the visual arts and architecture from the Telegraph's crack team of critics as well as artists, curators, photographers, gallery owners and specialists who work in the art world. If your RSS reader is not shown, ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008

Welsh brawn: the photography of Robert Haines

Taken in 1971/2 by Welshman Haines, these photographs document life in the villages of Heolgerrig and Merthyr Tydfil: close-knit mining communities where the men spent their days underground, their nights in the pub and their Sundays at church. Cochin, ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Rees Jones,  Paul Anka,  Elvis Presley

The layered world of photographer Saul Leiter

Some of Saul Leiter’s work – an American photographer who created several of the earliest and most distinctive works in colour. Throughout the fifties he pursued his own form of street photography, as these images reveal: subdued, unashamedly artistic ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  4 Jun 2008

Air Band update

Stephen, centre, playing his air saxophone Below are highlights of the Knitting Factory gig. The band played a set of hard rock but wowed the three hundred fans with a Britney cover at the end. Stephen expanded his sax repertoire to include flute, ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  3 Jun 2008

Fancy a dip in the sea dressed as Reginald Perrin?

Remember office worker Reggie Iolanthe Perrin? As part of the Whitstable Biennale, artist Lee Campbell is looking for volunteers to help him recreate the opening credits of the 1970s comedy where Leonard Rossiter says goodbye to a monotonous existence ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  3 Jun 2008

Doubloons and sovereigns

About three years ago I read a piece by AA Gill on the subject of South African gold mining. You can read it in its entirety here, but this is the part that stayed with me: “Out of that black, hard rock emerges this stuff that never tarnishes, never ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  30 May 2008

A widget for Rubens

I’m quite taken with the widget on the Art Fund’s website that allows you to perform a sort of time-lapse on great works of art. They’ve chosen the original sketches for Rubens’ The Apotheosis of James I, part of the ceiling at Banqueting House, a ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  22 May 2008

Air on a G key

‘Playing the air sax’ sounds like a euphemism for something risqué, and it’s more usually done in the privacy of your own home, but not if you’re Stephen ‘Airmonger’ Jones, now ranked top air saxophone player in the US, and about to play a one off gig ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  21 May 2008
Related Topics: Kenny G

Vinyl swansong

Spencer Murphy has long been on my list of laudable snappers. His latest venture springs from two and half wintry days last December, when he and designer Ali Augur set about documenting the swansong of the flyer festooned independent vinyl vendors ...

From LUCY DAVIES, The Telegraph,  20 May 2008

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