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From Dollys to doggies: the Magnum Square Print sale in pictures | Art and design

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From Dollys to doggies: the Magnum Square Print sale – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email To celebrate 75 years of the iconic agency, a new Magnum Square Print Sale – the second of three – features Turkish baths, ballet dancers and Marilyn Monroe Then, Now, Next: Square Print Sale Mee-Lai Stone @mlestone Main image: Good golly Miss Dolly … a Dolly Parton lookalike competition in Phoenix, Arizona, 1979 Photograph: David Hurn/Magnum Photos Tue 18 Oct 2022 02. Read More...

How Britain's most wanted woman met her showdown | UK news

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By the time the police caught up with her, Fiona Mont, educated, glamorous and once dubbed 'Britain's most wanted woman', was a bloated, dishevelled mess living in squalor on a caravan site in Spain. Paranoid and exhausted after two years on the run, the woman who once drove detectives to distraction clutched her 10-month-old baby daughter and screamed a tirade of obscenities. Now, as she pledges her innocence and fights extradition from the Spanish jail cell where she languishes with Eta terrorists, the police officer who tracked her down has spoken about the woman nicknamed 'The Cat' for her skill in evading the law. Read More...

Kiss the sky: psychedelic posters of the 60s and 70s in pictures | Art and design

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Kiss the sky: psychedelic posters of the 60s and 70s – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The late publishing legend Felix Dennis had a passionate hobby: collecting deliriously psychedelic music posters of the 1960s and 70s, advertising Hendrix, Yoko Ono and the Who among others Main image: Martin Sharp, Exploding Hendrix, 1968. Photograph: Shapero Modern Thu 6 Oct 2016 07. Read More...