London CNN — A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death. “His behavior was quite challenging but we still loved him and thought the world of him.” The elaborately decorated "Georgian room," as those behind the campaign to save the …
Review Prom Mom By Laura Lippman William Morrow: 320 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. As evidenced by her new thriller, “Prom Mom,” one of Lippman’s most interesting and enduring touchstones remains James M. Cain, her fellow Baltimorean. Cain’s character archetypes — dreamers …
Jean Dubuffet was one of the seminal artists of the immediate post-war period, a former wine merchant who only found his feet as an artist in his early forties, amid the bomb-blasted, graffiti-spattered streets of occupied Paris. A collection of early lithographs mix the spontaneous energy of child art with a toilet-wall scabrousness: looking at the gaunt and grinning figures …
