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Make Life Beautiful

If you have a spare moment before 11 January then it’s well worth catching the exhibition of The Dandy in Photography at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. All the expected faces are there - Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant (in shiny plastic macintosh) and Robert de Montesquieu (queening around in what looks like a pair of ocelot gloves) - but also some much rarer delights, including the gay writer Oswell Blakeston and the actor Glen Byam Shaw looking very lovely indeed.

Claude Cahun, self portrait 1928

Giving the boys a run for their money is a natty Radclyffe Hall and a whole series of the wonderful Claude Cahun, surrealist and Jewish resistance fighter, whose enigmatically beautiful self-portraits have prompted the curators to display the word “lesbian” on the walls of the art gallery for the very first time in its long, venerable history. Go Claude!