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This week’s Big TV picks: Art That Made Us, Hacks, Slow Horses and The Andy Warhol Diaries

This week’s round up of the best new television serves up 1500 years of art, a Vegas comic on a quest to reinvent herself, and washed up spies.

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Homelessness

International artists raise money for the homeless with scrapped bus panels

Internationally renowned urban artists have painted scrap bus panels to raise money for homeless and underprivileged people across London.

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John Bird

Our most beautiful art treasures hide a multitude of sins

We’re still feeling the consequences of Victorian inequality – a browse through our museums reflects a society built on imperialism and hubris, and unearned wealth

Opinion

Abstract beauty to light up an increasingly ugly world

Kids Cover

Meet the winner of The Big Issue Kids Christmas Cover Competition 2021!

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John Bird

Art must not be the only way our children enjoy the natural world

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News

Photos taken by homeless photographers show London like you’ve never seen it before

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Housing

Artist community pays tribute to late Big Issue seller with memorial on his old patch

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Activism

This ‘protest art’ is touring Glasgow during COP26 to highlight the impact of climate change

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News

Big Issue vendor Dave Martin is showing off his art work in a London exhibition

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Art

Get your entries in for The Big Issue’s Christmas Kids Cover Competition

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Opinion

I can’t fight the big fights without a fix of beauty

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Art

Joe Lycett draws portrait of 2020 exclusively for The Big Issue

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