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• Goodness gracious, the papers

  24-04-2016 23:55
  
  Last week, the Brooklyn Museum held their annual Artists Ball bash fundraiser, which honoured the patrons Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia and brought in $2.2m for the museum—the most successful fundraising event in its history, the director Anne Pasternak triumphantly announced at dinner. The “white hot” dress code (which the guests followed to varying degrees) continued upstairs in the Beaux-Arts Court dinner setting with the event designer David Stark’s decorations of &ldq
  
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• Rich list 2016: fortunes drop for several British-based art collectors

  24-04-2016 23:00
  
  Britain’s super-rich have seen a drop in fortunes over the past year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, which was published yesterday (24 April). Among them were the steel magnate and art collector Lakshmi Mittal, who is reported to have lost three quarters of his wealth and is now worth £7.12bn. The decline in fortune for Mittal, as well as several other major collectors, coincides with a global slowdown in the art market. Mittal donated £19.2m to Anish Kapoor's steel
  
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• Fourth edition of Art International in Istanbul is postponed

  24-04-2016 23:00
  
  The organisers of Art International, the Istanbul-based contemporary art fair, have decided to postpone this year’s edition, which was scheduled to take place this autumn (23-25 September) at the Haliç Congress Centre on the banks of the Golden Horn.
  “The fair is on hold until we can put together something all the stakeholders and shareholders can buy into,” says co-founder Sandy Angus of the London-based events company Angus Montgomery. “We will definitely re-con
  
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• Artists get behind bars for Matt's Gallery send-off

  24-04-2016 23:00
  
  It may be the latest victim of East End gentrification but after 23 years on Copperfield Road in Mile End, Matt’s Gallery left the building on Saturday night (23 April) in characteristically celebratory artist-centric style. Artists Behind Bars was not a mass-incarceration but a bibulous extravaganza in which more than 25 artists created and tended specially devised one-night-only bars with predictably uproarious results. Devised by the artist Kitty Finer in association with Eleanor Vonne
  
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• A year after the earthquake, Nepal’s art and monuments are honoured in New York show

  24-04-2016 23:00
  The Rubin Museum of Art in New York is hosting a number of exhibitions and events to mark the one-year anniversary of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, which killed more than 9,000 people and destroyed some of the country’s most important cultural heritage sites. 
  • For more on the Nepal earthquake, see Nepal earthquake anniversary: World Monuments Fund to finance rebuilding of Char Narayan Temple, Nepal’s cultural heritage celebrated in New York and Nepal’s most
  
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• John Whittingdale accused of political interference in National Portrait Gallery appointment

  24-04-2016 18:47
  
  Culture Secretary orders rerun of selection process for a new trustee after the five candidates he had endorsed - including three Tory donors and one former minister - failed to make the shortlist
  
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• Kingly statue plunges sword into Tintagel's Arthurian row

  24-04-2016 16:00
  
  Regal figure to be unveiled this week on Cornish site where English Heritage has already been accused of ‘Disneyfication’Perched above the Atlantic breakers, the imposing bronze statue of a regal figure clutching a sword and gazing back across the ruins of Tintagel castle and towards the Cornish mainland is certainly impressive.“Brilliant, isn’t it?” said Matt Ward, the property manager of this most atmospheric spot. “I think the visitors are going to love it.
  
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• Sicily: Culture and Conquest review – the original treasure island

  24-04-2016 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Raging bulls, Medusas, Madonnas… there are riches and mysteries galore in this enthralling survey of Sicilian history from the ancient Greeks to the NormansArchimedes had his eureka moment in a bath in Syracuse in Sicily. Antipholus, protagonist of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, comes from the very same place. Cicero described Syracuse as the greatest and most beautiful of all Greek cities, when it was not so much an outpost as a grand imperial metropolis
  
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