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Leading artists unite to oppose cuts to arts funding
Some of the country's most respected artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin yesterday lent their weight to a campaign urging the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, not to destroy the "long term" achievements of their industry by reducing arts funding.
Combat fatigue: Tim Hetherington's intimate portraits of US soldiers at rest reveal the other side of Afghanistan
Heads curling into arms, mouths lolling open, bathed in pools of light, the members of a 15-strong platoon of US paratroopers embrace some much-needed sleep. For them, war veers between extremes. Combat follows boredom follows combat. When they aren't absorbed with killing the enemy, they're busy killing time.
- Picturing the night sky
- The Diary: Booker Prize; Nick Taussig; Venice Film Festival; SpeedArting; Isaac Julien
- Pakpoom Silaphan's exhbition is a sign of the times
- Portraits of bi-polar disorder by Josephine King
- Art of the art game: Peter Bazalgette reveals how curators can take control of their own media coverage
- Picture Editor's Guild Awards 2010
Eadweard Muybridge, Tate Britain, London
Charles Darwent: This pioneering Victorian photographer led a hectic and colourful life, but his efforts for art and science are not what they seem
- Joan Mitchell, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Rated 5/ 5 )
- Rachel Whiteread: Drawings, Tate Britain, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
- Impressionist Gardens, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh (Rated 4/ 5 )
- Fourth Plinth, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
- James Lavelle: Daydreaming with James Lavelle
- Edinburgh Photographic Society: 148th International Exhibition of Photography, Photographic Exhibition Centre, Edinburgh (Rated 4/ 5 )
Great Works: The West Front of the Sint-Mariakerk, Utrecht (1662), Pieter Jansz. Saenredam
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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