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The Guardian
12-03-2025
- The Guardian
Urban decay and camel rides – readers' best photos
'While walking through the nature reserve in Wicken Fen with my wife, niece and nephew, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye in a patch of rough grass. The muntjac was around 3 meters away, well camouflaged except for its head, which was caught in the bright, winter sunlight. We remained quiet and still while it fed.' Photograph: Andy Gibbons 'There's something very British about out-of-season seaside towns. Maintenance work for the spring/summer tourists was just starting here at Bayside Fun Park.' Photograph: Pete Bowman 'A humpback whale, called Guardian by whale watchers, returns to the west coast of Canada each spring from Hawaii.' Photograph: Albert Macfarlane 'An elderly lady in a wheelchair is fascinated with a painting by Oskar Kokoschka. Is she seeing herself in the very young girl watched by a boy?' Photograph: Krzysztof Andrzejczak 'After reading your review of the Goya to Impressionism exhibition in February, I wondered what Goya would have made of these four swordfish stakes.' Photograph: Lydia Morris 'Camel rides on Birubi beach.' Photograph: Ian Sanderson 'It's always good to see the daffs arriving in February, trumpeting the imminent arrival of spring in Bransford.' Photograph: Lynne Falconer 'One of the many hidden treasures we came across in secluded courtyards. There is beauty in decay.' Photograph: Geoff Wood 'On what looked like the first day of spring, we took a drive across Dartmoor when this beautiful rainbow emerged. This pony was only too happy to pose with it.' Photograph: Ruud Jansen Venneboer 'Weird ice formations on a fence and stile near the summit of Whernside in the Yorkshire Dales.' Photograph: David Berry 'A red-tailed hawk at the University of California Santa Cruz's Coastal Science Campus.' Photograph: Craig James 'An icy Penshaw Monument blazes in the January sun.' Photograph: Danial Kennedy 'The annual visit to the grave of the Prophet Hud centres around a series of marches up the mountain wherein his grave is nestled, led by various scholarly families. It culminates in the grand visit of the family of Shaykh Abu Bakr bin Salim, captured here as people begin to gather for the march up, which draws people from across the world.' Photograph: Huseyin Tuna 'Hopeful cats at sunrise waiting patiently behind fishermen.' Photograph: Robert Boon 'Normally know for golden sands, summer sunshine and stunning sunsets, Abel Tasman national park was host to an autumn storm that brought an intense rainbow to life.' Photograph: Steve Redshaw 'A giant awakens in Banff national park. I caught this photo at a roadside pullout, the clouds were just starting to break and we had the place to ourselves. Shifting clouds revealed the brow and nose of a giant.' Photograph: Thomas J Albright
The Guardian
26-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Two Van Gogh paintings to be shown in London for first time
Two Vincent van Gogh paintings created in the months after the Dutch artist mutilated his ear will reportedly be exhibited in London for the first time. The works, The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles and The Ward in the Hospital at Arles, will appear at the Courtauld Gallery from next month, the Art Newspaper reported. The paintings are the only works created by the post-impressionist of the hospital in Arles in southern France, in which he stayed. The pieces were bought in the 1920s by the Swiss collector Oskar Reinhart and upon his death became part of his 200-strong collection in Winterthur, near Zurich, which until recently had been prohibited from lending. The museum in Reinhart's villa, Am Römerholz, opened to the public in 1970 but is temporarily closed for building work, so the paintings are to go out on loan to the Courtauld for the exhibition Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection from 14 February to 26 May. The pair of Van Goghs were started in the second half of April 1889, at a time when the artist was sleeping in the hospital but allowed to paint during the day. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion The exhibition will open with a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the impressionists, including Goya's highly charged Still Life With Three Salmon Steaks, Géricault's moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank and Courbet's provocative The Hammock. Last year, the Courtauld narrowly escaped a fire in the wider Somerset House complex in central London. The gallery, home to works including Van Gogh's 1889 self-portrait showing him with a bandaged ear, was not directly impacted by the fire and was able to reopen shortly after the blaze was brought under control.
