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• Just How Quickly Has Manhattan’s Lower East Side Gallery District Grown?

  25-04-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Anyone who has visited Manhattan’s Lower East Side over the past few years knows that it seems to be growing more and more densely packed with galleries every single day. There are now a grand total of 132 of them … Read More
  
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• Photographer Alex Masi's chance shot of a young girl in Bhopal transformed both of their lives

  25-04-2015 14:50
  
  On 24 August 2009, as monsoon season arrived in central India, Alex Masi took a picture… and lives changed. He was in Bhopal, photographing a boy called Sachin Jatev, who had leg paralysis and skeletal deformity, possibly as a result of the 1984 gas leak that devastated the area. "It began to rain very hard," recalls Masi, now 34, an Italian-born, London-based photojournalist who last year also photographed the heavily polluted Bhopal region 30 years after the disaster for The New Review. "It
  
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• Christopher Williams, Mick Peter, Evelyn De Morgan: this week’s new exhibitions

  25-04-2015 10:00
  
  From cult photographer Christopher Williams’s first major UK survey in London to Evelyn De Morgan’s wistful paintings in Blackwell, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the countryThis exhibition’s title alludes obliquely to William Blake’s vision of seeing a world in a grain of sand. Accordingly, eight contemporary artists gather together in the modest-sized but far from small-minded International 3 gallery to show off their evocations. As the theme ca
  
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• Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: The 1812 Overture cannon

  25-04-2015 01:00
  
  * Local roads were closed, ambulances were on standby. Microphones, suspended between trees, were ready to capture the blast of a Napoleonic cannon borrowed from a military academy. The fifth blast was deemed to be a "take"; the tape was taken back to the studio and dubbed 16 times into a recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. This recording, made in 1954, was the first one to follow the composer's instructions to the letter.
  
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