The journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead in 2017, was not a Muslim (“Reviled, harassed, abused: Modi’s most trenchant critic speaks out”, 27 February, News, p30).
We misnamed Vir Technology as Vir Technologies (“Will we get a single variant-proof vaccine for Covid?”, 27 February, the New Review, p18).
A feature about Shakespeare was illustrated with an image from Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (1957). It should have given the actor’s name, Toshiro Mifune (“Bard wired”, 16 January, the New Review, p30).
We noted an art historian’s nickname for a portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain as “ ‘ ’Er Indoors’ after Rumpole of the Bailey”. That is the moniker Arthur Daley’s character gives his wife in the TV series Minder. Hilda Rumpole is “She Who Must Be Obeyed” (“Hanging in plain sight: art expert learns that £65 ‘replica’ on his wall may be an old master”, 9 January, p11).
We miscaptioned Remedios Varo’s painting Hacia la torre (To the tower) as “Bordando el manto terrestre (Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle)” in a review of Tate Modern’s Surrealism Beyond Borders (“Tales of the unexpected”, 27 February, the New Review, p26).
Homophone corner: “... the wood and bones, it just leeches into everything...” (“Ticket to Roman Britain”, 27 February, Magazine, p24).
Other recently amended articles include:
Fungus farming: how to grow your own mushrooms
The Observer view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Observer view on the non-aggression pact between Labour and the Lib Dems
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