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Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow – the week in art

Escher’s eye-popping visions enter the video dimension, Pan-Africanism pulls in the big names and agent provocateur Julio Le Parc hits the UK – all in your weekly dispatch MC Escher The great Dutch artist of eye-popping, brain-melting visual paradox gets a rich retrospective of his prints, with video, music and installations adding to the fun. • Somerset House, London, until 6 September Continue reading...

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Holiday misery to continue for Brits as experts reveal flight prices are set to soar even further next year - but the REAL winner of the jet fuel crisis is Butlin's

Dispatches: Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled?, airing tomorrow night at 8pm on Channel 4, sees Kate Quilton analaysing the current jet fuel crisis.

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'Armed and dangerous' fugitive on the run for killing a cop is spotted on trail cam in North Carolina

Fugitive Michael Timothy Puckett, 55, is accused of fatally shooting Deputy Logan Utt on Friday after officers in Carroll County were dispatched to conduct a welfare check.

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Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art

British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatch British Landscapes: A Sense of Place The romance and mystery of Britain’s green and pleasant land, as captured by artists from Gainsborough to Hepworth. • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, from 30 May to 1 November Continue reading...

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125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

Wigmore Hall, London The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme In May 1901, Wigmore Hall’s inaugural concert began, of course, with God Save the King – the words sounding novel to an audience who, until a few months earlier, had been singing it for Queen Victoria. The programme continued with a starry lineup including the composer and piano virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni performing Beethoven and the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe playing unaccompanied Bach. A partial recreation of that evening kicked off the hall’s fortnight of celebrations of its 125th birthday, and once the national anthem was out of the way - dispatched from the platform by soprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton – it felt less like a historical exercise than a celebration of what this venue has always been good at. The concert was billed as a gala but was less formal, shorter and tighter than that might have suggested, partly thanks to being broadcast live: no indulgent speeches, just short links from Radio 3’s Ian Skelly filling us in on the venue’s history. The hall was originally built in 1901 by Bechstein, the piano manufacturer, whose showrooms were next door on Wigmore Street, and was intended as a place where audiences could hear the finest pianists of the day showcasing the company’s instruments. Continue reading...

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Warrants for defendants skipping court in England and Wales up 50% since 2020

Former justice secretary Alex Chalk KC says figures Channel 4 obtained show the ‘horror show’ in the system Almost 60,000 arrest warrants were issued for defendants who skipped court in England and Wales last year, up nearly 50% since 2020 in further evidence of the “horror show” in the criminal justice system. The figures, obtained in an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches to air on Friday, also show that more than 30,000 failure-to-appear warrants are outstanding, meaning that tens of thousands of criminals could be on the run after being charged. It is unclear how many have more than one warrant to their name. Continue reading...

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Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill’s big guns – the week in art

First major retrospective for the wartime PM’s paintings, shadows of Berlin Dada, hopeful science and the outrageous art of Valie Export – all in your weekly dispatch Winston Churchill: The Painter Britain’s eloquent war leader kept himself sane by puffing on cigars, swilling brandy – and painting the world around him. • The Wallace Collection, London, from 23 May to 29 November Continue reading...

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Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow – the week in art

Holiday misery to continue for Brits as experts reveal flight prices are set to soar even further next year - but the REAL winner of the jet fuel crisis is Butlin's

'Armed and dangerous' fugitive on the run for killing a cop is spotted on trail cam in North Carolina

Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art

125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

Warrants for defendants skipping court in England and Wales up 50% since 2020

Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill’s big guns – the week in art