Henry Hitchings

Does Having a Child Make You See Art Differently?

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Why Are Parents in Their Forties So Underrepresented in Visual Culture?

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Hyperrealism and English Stoicism in the Photography of Martin Parr

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Why Are Artists So Fascinated with Teeth?

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The Filth and the Fury: Punk’s Rage against a Decaying Culture

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The Art of Christmas: From the Nativity to Cool Cats and Frosty Frogs

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Flaming June, by Frederic Leighton (c1895)©Leighton House Museum, Photo by Kevin Moran

The Big Orange: My Child Could Have Painted That

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Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768

Growing Up Fast, One Painting at a Time

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Willem Claesz. Heda, Still Life with a Lobster, 1650-9

What Does Art Smell Like?

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David Černý's Miminka, outside the Museum Kampa, Prague. Photo: Panoramio

Woah, Baby! Unusual Infants and Middle-Aged Messiahs

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To Bed, Perchance to Sleep

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Mary Cassatt, Mother Rose Nursing Her Child

Getting to Grips with Motherhood

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News from the Badlands of Dadland

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