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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Pregnancy,Miscarriage,Family,Health & wellbeing,Life and style 📌 Key idea: 'T“The subject comes with huge baggage and I love that,” says Tom de Freston. The painter and I are in his studio in a village outside Oxford, surrounded by nude photographs of his wife, the novelist Kieran Millwood Hargrave. “I wanted to ask: What does it mean for an artist to look at a female figure? Where is the agency's headquarters located?We were talking about Titian's "Poesie" series, and how those paintings — commissioned by the most…

💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: "I “It's become a living cliche: the evil bookseller,” the narrator declares a third of the way through John Tottenham's first novel. “No book or movie that included a scene in a bookstore would be complete without such a stock ‘character’.” This is one way to pre-empt criticism, and Sean Hangeland is just an ordinary character. Bitter, rude, apathetic, resentful of others' success and happiness and intellectually arrogant, a 48-year-old aspiring writer who makes ends meet is about to take a job at…