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Kenneth Halliwell: lover, killer… artist? by Philip Hoare

He has always been known as playwright Joe Orton's lover " and killer. But, beyond his celebrated library book jokes, is it time we started taking Kenneth Halliwell seriously as an artist?In January 1959, Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell began their campaign of theft. Starting at Hampstead Central Library on Finchley Road, north London, and moving on to libraries in Islington, they stole books of every genre, but with…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PM on July 20, 2016

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