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In 1751, the English painter William Hogarth created a nightmarish depiction of the London slum of St Giles. The familiar spire of the parish church towered over a scene of human ruin. This is Gin Lane, an imagined thoroughfare where the consumption of gin has deprived the inhabitants of sense,…

Founder of the Horse Hospital arts centre in London who also styled pop videos and films, including Absolute Beginners

‘It’s going to be like Bruegel meets the Simpsons,’ says the Turner Prize-winning artist of his free Trafalgar Square knees-up...

British satirist Cold War Steve has published a series of images based on the British painter William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress (1733-35). Hogarth’s 18th-century original charts the catastrophic decline of an affluent young man, Tom Rakewell. Cold War Steve’s 2025 reimagining substitutes the foolish rake with the US president, Donald…