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Dozens of blue plaques are missing in London and English Heritage wants public's help to find them

Among the missing blue plaques are ones commemorating William Hogarth, John Milton and Joseph Lister

Evening Standard

A very British surrealist and the Tories’ legacy in cartoons – the week in art

Drift inside Leonora Carrington’s strange dreams while Ben Jennings parodies 14 years of political failure in a graphic Rake’s Progress – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative rule

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OPINION - John Darlington on great London monuments: St George’s — London’s most eccentric church

In 1751, William Hogarth, the great London painter and satirist, produced Gin Lane, one of his famous etchings. This raucous image is a good place to introduce the story of the city’s most eccentric church, because in the background is the unique spire of St George’s in Bloomsbury.

Evening Standard

The Cult of Beauty review – delusional, divine, deadly…

From wife-grinding windmills to pure gold serums, this riveting show traces humanity’s obsession with beauty through time and cultures with a keen sense of the ludicrous and the shocking

The Guardian - UK

How to solve our mental health crisis

When BBC journalist Rory Carson sought online consultations for a potential mental health issue, three private clinics diagnosed him with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They charged between £685 and £1,095 for these consultations, which lasted between 45 and 100 minutes, and all prescribed him medication.

The Conversation

Lagos, Peckham, Repeat review – Yoruba culture and musical craft beer

The cross-cultural circuits between west Africa and south London ignite startling works – and snacks! – by artists including Yinka Shonibare and Chiizii

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The challenge of rehangs: galleries wrestle with changing politics of art

A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social history

The Guardian - UK

Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

Tate Britain, LondonOnce the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

The Guardian - UK

New William Hogarth exhibition to feature artwork not seen for 300 years

The display focuses on the British artist and his reaction to the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.

The Independent UK

Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill?

Today, people talk about seeing a therapist like they’re going to the dentist. But our compassion around mental health still excludes the people who need it most

The Walrus

Choose your lane

Five artists reinterpreted William Hogarth’s 1751 painting to give a fresh take on gin

The Hindu

You've seen the Stranger Things version, but what went on at the infamous historical Hellfire Club?

Stranger Thing's Hellfire Club is mainly made up of the school's "losers" and outcasts — but the original 18th century version was much more racy, writes Esmé Louise James.

ABC News

Pornography, the devil and baboons in fancy dress: what went on at the infamous historical Hellfire Club

After a month of waiting, the season finale of Stranger Things season 4 has almost arrived on Netflix. This season, along with the nightmarish arch-villain Vecna, we have been introduced to “the Hellfire Club” – the Dungeons and Dragons club of Hawkins high school.

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Bones, bowels and body-snatchers – Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life review

William Burke’s skeleton looms over this gripping exhibition showcasing the spooky relics of science’s thirst for anatomical knowledge – and the horrors this often unleashed

Evening Standard

Strawberry Hill launches crowdfunding campaign to save iconic Walpole portrait

The Trust is hoping to bring the portrait of a young Walpole back to his home of Strawberry Hill

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