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• 363 days of tea – in pictures

  28-11-2015 18:00
  
  Ruby Silvious lives in upstate New York and has been turning discarded objects into art for many years. “I like reusing. I paint on pistachio shells and fold paper bags into bras,” says Silvious, who is a graphic designer by day and an artist by night. On 3 January 2015, she started keeping a visual journal on used tea bags and called her project 363 Days of Tea. “I don’t plan ahead [what to paint],” she says, as inspiration comes from the myriad experiences giving
  
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• Condition: The Ageing of Art by Paul Taylor review – fires, floods and conservation

  28-11-2015 17:00
  
  Some of our best-loved paintings have been ravaged by time, and by restoration“Hour by hour, and week by week, the thing upon the canvas was growing old …No! The thing is impossible.” In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the painter Basil Hallward is dismayed by the catastrophic changes that have wrecked his great portrait. In this eloquent study, the art historian Paul Taylor demonstrates that all artworks undergo countless metamorphoses. Some of them occur over
  
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• Tristan Tzara exhibition: the man who made Dada

  28-11-2015 11:00
  
  A show in Strasbourg explores the life of the influential 20th century poet, art writer and collectorPoets are in season again in French museums. After an exhibition devoted to Michel Leiris, among others, at the Louvre in Metz, attention has shifted to Strasbourg, where Tristan Tzara is in the limelight. It is pleasing that museums should be reminding the public that not so long ago, in the 20th century, literary and visual creation went hand-in-hand, affording one another mutual support. In th
  
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