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• Britain to sign up to 1954 Hague Convention on protecting world's ancient cultural sites

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  The Government is to sign up to the 1954 Hague Convention on protecting the world’s ancient cultural sites and create a fund to help with the recovery of monuments at risk from destruction and looting by Islamic State.
  
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• Underground Economy: Ghost Writers For The Toast Or Talk You Have To Give

  20-06-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At a time when everything is a branding opportunity, and toasts live on for posterity in social media, few people want to be memorialized “um”-ing, “you know”-ing” and “remember that time we got drunk”-ing their way into ignominy. And yet: Nobody wants to admit he Botoxed his son’s bar mitzvah toast with some punch lines […]
  
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• The Changing Galleries Of Art Basel (Who’s In/Out Over 15 Years)

  20-06-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We decided to look even further back, to the year 2000, and found that over the past 15 years the Galleries sector has been over 50 percent. Art Basel is indeed tough to get into—“like getting into a club” as dealer Jeffrey Deitch told The Times—and that can give the impression that it has been […]
  
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• How Much Has Art Basel’s Exhibitor List Changed Since the Year 2000?

  20-06-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  On June 14, just as the 46th edition of Art Basel, the world’s most prestigious art fair, was about to open, The New York Times took a look at the fair’s selection process. The paper reported that there had been … Read More
  
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• Boundaries Between Museums And Galleries Are Eroding

  20-06-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What were hard and fast boundaries between commercial galleries and museums a decade ago no longer exist. Top galleries eager to woo blue-chip artists, collectors and a more diverse public are increasingly turning to big-name museum professionals to mount exhibitions of depth that would look at home at the Met or the Museum of Modern […]
  
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• World’s most inaccessible art uncovered in the heart of the Colombian jungle

  20-06-2015 13:37
  
  Prehistoric paintings on vertical rock face in wilderness filmed for the first timeA British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of previously unseen ancient rock art.In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed to have been created thousands of years
  
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• World’s most inaccessible art is uncovered in heart of the Colombian jungle

  20-06-2015 13:37
  
  British film-maker finds prehistoric paintings on vertical rock face in Colombian wildernessA British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of ancient rock art that has never been filmed or photographed before.In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed
  
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• World’s most inaccessible art found in the heart of the Colombian jungle

  20-06-2015 13:37
  
  Prehistoric paintings on vertical rock face in wilderness photographed and filmed for the first timeA British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of ancient rock art that has never been filmed or photographed before.In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals
  
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• In Colombia’s remote wilderness, stunning prehistoric rock art uncovered

  20-06-2015 13:37
  
  British film-maker finds prehistoric paintings on vertical rock face in Colombian wildernessA British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of previously unseen ancient rock art.In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed to have been created thousands
  
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• In Colombia’s remote wilderness, Briton uncovers stunning prehistoric rock art

  20-06-2015 13:37
  
  Film-maker returns with first glimpse of cave paintings that could be 20,000 years oldA British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of previously unseen ancient rock art.In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed to have been created thousands of yea
  
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• Howard Jacobson: artistic creation frees us from ‘right thinking’

  20-06-2015 13:00
  
  Art can’t be judged by pressing ‘like’ and ‘not like’ buttons, and it should stand outside of ideology. Let’s forget thou-shalt-nots and remember the necessity of playFor some time now we have been in one of those “periodical fits of morality” Lord Macaulay found so ridiculous – minding our step, privileging the taking of offence over the giving of it, going in fear of people who have strong opinions when it should be axiomatic that an opinion is the least interesting thing a&n
  
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• Artistic director of the Young Vic theatre, David Lan, interview: 'Government has changed philosophically ... the emphasis has been put more and more on art for rich people'

  20-06-2015 13:00
  
  It might be built around an old butcher’s shop, but from humble beginnings spring great things: the Young Vic is currently the most successful theatre in the country. It wiped the floor with the likes of the National and the Royal Court at this year’s Olivier Awards, securing a mighty 11 nominations and winning four, principally for Ivo Van Hove’s radical rethinking of the Arthur Miller classic A View From The Bridge.
  
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• How to draw… the Mona Lisa

  20-06-2015 10:00
  
  Salvatore Rubbino gives us a tour through A Walk Through Paris, which has just won the Independent Bookshop Week children’s picture book award 2015 – including lesson on how to draw the Mona Lisa herself Continue reading...
  
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• Dark Mofo festival: a newcomer's take

  20-06-2015 06:36
  
  Not knowing what to expect from Hobart’s winter solstice festival, this first time visitor to Tasmania found herself transported by the darkness, light ... and bassI’d little idea what to expect from Dark Mofo and my first visit to Tasmania or which events I’d try out in the program – the festival’s arty red brochure gives only an oblique sense of what’s on, best deciphered in situ. But over the course of the weekend, the interactive night art installations, delicious local food and
  
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• Battle of Waterloo: Howard Morgan's portrait of the historic event glows with detail

  20-06-2015 03:45
  
  Most painters, if commissioned by a descendant of the Duke of Wellington to depict the Battle of Waterloo, would feature the Iron Duke somewhere fairly prominently. But not Howard Morgan.
  
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• Conductor Condemns Vancouver Opera’s Decision To Abandon Season, Become Festival

  20-06-2015 02:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bramwell Tovey: “Deeply concerned at the announcement, I tweeted ‘Distressing to see @VancouverOpera news spun as visionary. It’s terrible news. Vancouver to be only major Cdn city without an opera season.’ Within the hour, VO had tweeted back it was “disappointed” with me, presumably for not following the party line. Like many others, I was […]
  
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• New Cliburn Junior Competition Webcast Live June 21-28

  20-06-2015 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hear 23 of the world's best 13- to 17-year-old pianists as they perform in Fort Worth, Texas, during the inaugural Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival.
  
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