https://vo.rs/tags/tabloids/Latest from the Tabloids desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:24:00 +0000https://vo.rs/unravelled/the-crying-boy-painting-the-curse-that-sold-newspapers/<p>There is a particular kind of picture that used to hang above a great many British fireplaces: a fair-haired child, perhaps five or six years old, staring out at the room with a single tear rolling down one cheek. Cheap, mass-produced, sold in Woolworths and market stalls for a few pounds, the print had no obvious artistic ambition. It was sentimental furniture. And then, for a few weeks in the autumn of 1985, it became the most feared object in England — the thing you were supposed to take down off your wall, carry into the garden, and burn before it burned you.</p>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:24:00 +0000