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Amy Sherald, the painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could provoke the Trump administration. wapo.st/3U010Wm

"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." ~ Voltaire

Tomorrow's front page📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

BREAKING: 🇦🇺 Australia's Prime Minister Albanese says that the war in Gaza has 'gone beyond the world's worst fears' and that Israel's 'denial of aid and the killing of civilians, including children, seeking access to water and food cannot be defended or ignored'.

no laptop, no typewriter, just a quill pen & paper to compose her masterpieces: Jane Austen writing desk, Morgan Library & Museum.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972. nyer.cm/WM4q6rw

The humble abode of the incomparable #PatrickLeighFermor. A place of literary pilgrimage.

Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace." Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

#MeettheWriters I spoke to Guadalupe Nettel Mexico’s literary powerhouse, about The Accidentals, life between continents & partial blindness. Listen, then read the Mexico feature in latest publication The Entrepreneurs. #GuadalupeNettel #TheAccidentals #MexicanLiterature #MonocleRadio

RIP Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained-mathematician-turned-satirist whose silly songs used to poke fun at our sensibilities and brighten our days when we were younger. nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art…

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Alas, Robert Schumann died, abject and alone, otd 1856. The story of his last years is unbearably tragic; but it must not overshadow the joy of his music. Yes, there is much darkness there, but also much light - there is everything! No composer has confided in us more intimately.

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

From today's FT Opinion Financial Times #TomLehrer

Scotland hates MAGA for good reason:

Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history. nyer.cm/SJfMLBn

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'Rhossili Beach' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution — an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security.   My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state: