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• Family threaten National Gallery with legal action over Matisse painting

  22-11-2015 18:38
  
  Descendants of sitter in Portrait of Greta Moll call for its return claiming it was sold without permission after second world warThe National Gallery has been threatened with legal action relating to a portrait by Henri Matisse, amid claims that it was stolen from its original owner shortly after the second world war.Descendants of the subject in the French master’s Portrait of Greta Moll are calling for it to be returned to them. Moll’s husband, Oskar, commissioned it from Matisse,
  
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• Artist Simon Denny’s Serpentine Gallery exhibition brings together the unlikely worlds of tech and art

  22-11-2015 17:11
  
  New Zealand artist Simon Denny is bringing tech culture out of its ring-like HQs and into the gallery. He talks to Hettie Judah
  
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• Julia Margaret Cameron; Influence and Intimacy reviews – the fine art of keeping still

  22-11-2015 09:00
  
  V&A; Science Museum, London
  Julia Margaret Cameron’s spectral photographs offer a unique closeup of Victorian life in two bicentenary showsA young man of vivid beauty lowers his eyes against the light and the camera’s rapt observation. His face fills the frame, its rugged contours emphasised by the glamorous interplay of sunshine and shadow. His hair is long and glossy, his strong jaw fashionably stubbled, like some film star posing for Richard Avedon – except that this man
  
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• Hew Locke: ‘If I wasn’t an artist, I'd be a historian’

  22-11-2015 08:00
  
  The sculptor and painter on meeting the Queen, building boats and his artist parentsYou have some work in the forthcoming exhibition at Tate Britain, Artist & Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. Would it be fair to say that almost all of your work could have been part of that show?
  Not necessarily. I mean, one of the problems with being an artist is people want to be able to say: “He’s the post-colonial guy”, or “He’s Mr Multicultural”. I have an
  
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• Homes: signs of the times

  22-11-2015 07:00
  
  A family firm has been supplying neon to Londoners for years. Ed Cumming shines a light on God’s Own Junkyard and its talented and charismatic founderGod’s Own Junkyard is not a mournful place. It is hidden on an unprepossessing industrial estate in Walthamstow, northeast London, but walking inside feels like taking some potent experimental hallucinogen. Every surface is covered in neon. Old signs, new signs, rude signs, kitsch signs. Few who enter can suppress a grin.And yet it is i
  
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• Untitled( some of the babies have a suicide vest on instead of wings)

  22-11-2015 01:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i’m thinking about v and not caring about much else.v travels for weeks in bumpy weather.v has asthma. she smokes american spirit.  she gets birth control pills in the mail. i walk to my pharmacy to get what i need. i’ll take her when i’m ready or when i have to.     v is going to sprout freckles when she goes to new zealand. her breasts were larger than they were last week because she has her period.what can i do to please you sexually, v said. i don’
  
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• El Greco and co put Bishop Auckland back in the frame

  22-11-2015 01:05
  
  Kevin McKenna meets the multimillionaire who plans to transform the fortunes of the northern town with a new gallery that links to its forgotten pastAmid the fading elegance of Bishop Auckland, the regeneration of England’s north-east, long foretold, may be at last unfolding – with the help of some old Spanish masters.Auckland Castle, the ancient seat of royal and ecclesiastical power in this region, is the centrepiece and guiding light of an immense three-year project to restore the
  
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• Big names in arts unite against threat to uproot ‘wonderful’ Cass design school

  22-11-2015 01:05
  
  Plan to move world-renowned London ‘Bauhaus’ would destroy creative diversity and diminish East End community in which it standsAngry academics and students defending the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, a leading London training ground for designers and artists, have won support from some of the biggest names in British culture, including Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota, international architects Lord Rogers and Sir David Chipperfield, gallerist Iwona Blazwick and artists Sir Anish Ka
  
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• Don’t destroy the Sir John Cass Faculty – a wonderful part of creative learning and life | open letter

  22-11-2015 01:04
  
  Distinguished architects, designers, artists and curators campaign to save the Cass Faculty in an open letter to London Metropolitan UniversityWe, the undersigned, call on London Metropolitan University to review its current strategic plan, One Campus, One Community, in light of its consequences for the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design.The Cass is a wonderful example of interdisciplinary activity – an outward facing community located in London’s East End, making
  
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