Art and design + Letters
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Brief letters: Artworks remade | Planting trees in ’93 | Spending a penny in Victorian times | Luxury ironing
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Letters: The UK’s creative skills have never been in higher demand, writes James Purnell, while Gush Mundae says we can’t wait for Labour to fix things, and Dan Thompson takes inspiration from the New Deal
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Brief letters: Art criticism | Council funding | Cuckoo confusion | A cracking teacher | Dominic Raab’s career
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Letter: Arts and culture are in danger of becoming the preserve of white, public-school educated men, write Ayvianna Snow, Alice Dupont, Frances Rifkin and Pam Foley
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Letters: Prof Anthony Geraghty and Jenny Woodhouse salute the work and the kindness of the historian and museum curator
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Mike Watts writes: John Byrne was a prolific designer of album cover artwork, most often for fellow Scottish artists
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Brief letters: GCSE in sign language | Early daffodils | Michelle Mone | Banksy’s road sign | Blind date bliss
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Letter: Even though the word has become a marketing cliche, it is a disciplined practice with the intention of paying close attention to the present moment, argues Mary Neave
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Letter: Life drawing classes are under threat from Tory education policies, warns former art teacher Carolynn Cooke
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Letters: Readers respond to an interview with the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who denounced the architect Le Corbusier as ‘the god of boring’
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Letter: The Climate Museum director, Miranda Massie, says that art doesn’t need to be positive or cheerful to inspire momentum and resolve
To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A