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    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
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      Pompeii in Color — New York show brings ancient world vividly to life

      Exhibition in an Upper East Side townhouse highlights how myth and reality blended in domestic decoration

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      We are all susceptible to the dark arts that powerful people employ to rob us of our critical reason

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      It is time for reinvention or they will disappear

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      This follow-up to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s Lake District-set odyssey is markedly more amiable and relaxed

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      Paintings at a new exhibition feature clues to ancient plant life

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      Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum

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      From celestial metaphor to something better ignored, the ceiling has its highs and lows

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      A more mature account of Zach Condon’s undoubted talent

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      Off the wall

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      The hard sell
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