Melissa Munro is senior curator of the Derek Williams collection at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.

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Gillian Ayres at home in Barnes, London, in 1961.

A tribute to Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)

Ayres has died at the age of 88 after a long, vibrant career as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters

18 Apr 2018

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Detail from Victor Arnautoff’s The Life of Washington mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco.

The George Washington murals are meant to make viewers uncomfortable

A public high school is the perfect place to consider the flaws of America’s founding fathers

The Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Chesire.

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While few would contest the scientific significance of the site, its cultural impact has been less widely acknowledged

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