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Under the wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) (1831), Hokusai. © The Trustees of the British Museum

How Hokusai swept to fame

Hokusai never retired. In fact, he made his finest work in his old age, as this exhibition at the British Museum reminds us

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Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London

The Masterpiece podcast: episode three

This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

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