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Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they're being taken for fools ...

Shrink to toy-size or dive into an ocean in exhibition where studio brings Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up to life ...

Capturing things that mix the strange with the beautiful helped the Spanish graphic designer recover from a blue period ...

Emerald Fennell's film brings the raunch to Brontë's romance, while Nintendo's beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game ...

Other lives: Architect and tutor whose built projects included conservation design and work for British Waterways ...

Letters: Francis Bown says its grey concrete and childlike composition expressed the fatalism and despair of the time, while Helen Keats reflects on other brutalist builds ...

There is a Match Museum in Jönköping, Sweden, dedicated to matchsticks and matchboxes. It's one of only a handful of match museums worldwide. I love looking at vintage matchbox art, and this museum sounds like a great place to see some. -- Read the ...

This painting by Louis Wain depicts a wonderfully playful scene of cats sledding down a hill. Some look thrilled, while others look absolutely terrified. A few have even gone flying off their sleds and landed upside down in the snow. I need to find a ...

Georges Seurat takes an eerie trip to the seaside, Yinka Shonibare puts empire in its place and Sean Scully reveals his source ...

His work was so painstaking and slow to produce that the models - including a certain trainee barrister - often didn't make it to the end of a portrait. It makes for paintings that seem drained of life ...