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• ‘This is living antiquity’: the director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra

  06-03-2016 22:00
  
  Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum, says that although the destruction of Palmyra by Isil militants last year could have been avoided, his museum can help to rebuild the ancient city.Palmyrian Tariff The six-metre long marble Palmyrian Tariff (AD137) documented import and export fees in Greek and Aramaic script. Palmyra was at the crossroads of trade routes linking India, Arabia and Iran. The tariff was found in Syria in 1881 by a wealthy Russian-Armenian explorer. I
  
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• The unspoken reason why galleries are flocking to Los Angeles

  06-03-2016 22:00
  
  The grand openings of the Los Angeles branches of European galleries Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth (called Hauser Wirth & Schimmel), on 23 February and 13 March respectively, are sure to generate even more buzz about the booming Los Angeles art scene. Gallerists who have moved here in the past have praised the “energy” (Dominique Lévy), the “freshness” (Perry Rubenstein), “the ability to spread out” (Michele Maccarone) and the “ex
  
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• Opposition grows to transfer of historic photo collection to V&A

  06-03-2016 22:00
  
  Curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have pledged to put photography at the heart of the 164-year-old South Kensington institution by turning one wing into a centre dedicated to the medium.The strategy is partly designed to convince photography professionals who oppose the decision to transfer more than 400,000 photographs from the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford to the V&A. Critics, many of whom signed a letter to the Guardian this weekend, including David Hockney a
  
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• French dealer Emmanuel Perrotin to open space in Seoul

  06-03-2016 22:00
  
  The French dealer Emmanuel Perrotin is expanding his empire and moving into Asia, with plans to open a new 180 sq. m “office showroom” in Seoul, Korea next month. The new venue will be located near to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
  “The space will be inaugurated with an exhibition of French artist Laurent Grasso’s work on 28 April, followed by a solo show dedicated to [New York-based artist] Kaws in June,” a gallery spokeswoman says. The new sp
  
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• The Other Classical Musics: a new concert series celebrating non-European classical traditions from Afghanistan to Aleppo

  06-03-2016 17:26
  
  A new concert series will celebrate non-European classical traditions. It's about time, says Michael Church
  
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• Botticelli Reimagined: The V&A has assembled the grossest heap of kitsch and dross ever to litter its halls

  06-03-2016 13:01
  
  Boyd Tonkin chastises the museum's 'nasty' tribute to Botticelli
  
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• Botticelli Reimagined: The V&A has assembled the grossest heap of kitsch and dross ever to litter its halls

  06-03-2016 13:01
  
  Boyd Tonkin chastises the museum's 'nasty' tribute to Botticelli
  
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• Modest Radio 4 man gives top-notch collection to the nation

  06-03-2016 11:20
  
  Major bequeaths to galleries are normally made by grand sorts, but Tim Sayer, a former BBC Radio 4 news writer, appears refreshingly normal. Sayer’s north London home is packed with a collection of more than 400 pieces accumulated over 50 years on a pedestrian salary, hanging cheek by jowl up the staircase, on both sides of doors, even in the bathroom. According to Tate Director, Nicholas Serota, it “reflects the discriminating eye of a person of modest means, whose passio
  
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• Botticelli Reimagined; Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection – review

  06-03-2016 09:00
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum; Courtauld Institute, London
  Everyone from Warhol to Dolce & Gabbana pays homage to this most modern of Renaissance masters in a beautifully choreographed show at the V&AIsadora Duncan twirls through the glade, arms raised, bewildering the Edwardian spectators. Her loose garments flutter in the breeze. Gliding sideways as she turns, her sashay appears suddenly familiar in the context of this show. The only surviving footage of the dancer quite clearly shows Dun
  
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