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• Crackdown in Turkey after coup attempt

  05-09-2016 23:00
  
  Artists, newspaper cartoonists and cultural figures are among the 35,000 people who have been detained in Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogans crackdown after the failed military coup in July. A further 82,000 people, including journalists and bureaucrats, have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs.Onur Erem, a Turkish journalist whose partner, the artist and writer Zehra Dogan, has been imprisoned for the past month, says that artists are being persecuted. Prosecutors have reportedly
  
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• Bill Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters for Palazzo Strozzi show

  05-09-2016 23:00
  
  Bill Viola will return to Florence in 2017, when he takes over the whole of the Palazzo Strozzi for a major retrospective. The US artist, who worked in the Italian city as a young man, has a wish list of Renaissance paintings, including frescoes by Uccello and Masolino, that he hopes to show along with his video installations in the exhibition, which is due to open on 10 March (until 16 July 2017). Delicate negotiations with churches and museums in the city to turn the list into loans are ongoi
  
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• Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison review – a star-studded tribute to Oscar Wilde

  05-09-2016 19:07
  
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  Ai Weiwei and Steve McQueen are among the artists doing time at the prison where Wilde was an inmate. Our critic goes behind bars at Artangel’s new showNan Goldin: why I’m making art in Oscar Wilde’s cellOscar and Bosie are sharing a cell. Their painted portraits hang on a wall spotted with graffiti, the tags and love hearts left by the young offenders who languished here before Reading prison, built in 1844, finally closed in 2013. Painter Marlene Dumas ampli
  
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• J.W.Anderson: 'provocative' new exhibition to reveal his inspirations

  05-09-2016 18:31
  
  Northern Irish fashion designer is set to oversee gender based art show which will connect the dots between modernism and fashionFashion designer J.W.Anderson is set offer a rare glimpse into his artistic process, in a “provocative” new art exhibition.Anderson, who has put ideas of gender subversion at the heart of his fashion shows, will oversee the Disobedient Bodies exhibition at The Hepworth gallery in Wakefield next spring. It will show the intersection between modern art, fashi
  
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• So, Kanye West has become a Famous artist overnight? Props to him

  05-09-2016 18:25
  
  Displayed in a gallery for two days, an automaton from the rapper’s latest video is suddenly a $4m collector’s item. Just don’t call the work on show a sculptureIs it or is it not on sale for $4m? In case it’s not obvious, I’m talking about Kanye West’s “sculpture” Famous. According to which reports you believe, his lineup of lifelike, automated models of celebrities in bed together is either going for a lot of money, or was never up for grabs in t
  
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• Nan Goldin in Reading gaol: why I'm making art in Oscar Wilde's cell

  05-09-2016 18:02
  
  She made her name shooting addicts and drag queens. Now the photographer is celebrating the outsider she has worshipped since her teens, in a show that also features work by Steve McQueen and Ai WeiweiNan Goldin is guiding me though her unlikely exhibition space in Reading prison, which comprises a row of cells on C Wing, close to where, in the summer of 1895, Oscar Wilde began a two-year sentence for gross indecency following the failure of his libel case against the Marquis of Queensbury. Gold
  
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• Nan Goldin banged up in Reading gaol with Oscar Wilde

  05-09-2016 18:02
  
  She made her name shooting addicts and drag queens. Now the photographer is celebrating the outsider she has worshipped since her teens, in a show that also features work by Steve McQueen and Ai WeiweiNan Goldin is guiding me though her unlikely exhibition space in Reading prison, which comprises a row of cells on C Wing, close to where, in the summer of 1895, Oscar Wilde began a two-year sentence for gross indecency following the failure of his libel case against the Marquis of Queensbury. Gold
  
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• The Secret Life Of David Lynch

  05-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “David would only be caught doing mundane things if it’s what he was actually doing. He’d never play up to the camera. It just turned out that it was just morning to night, he’s in the studio and he’s like that since he was a child, working and working on the studio. That’s all he does, he’s a hardcore artist.”
  
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• We Love Moomins, But We’re Missing Out On So Much Other Potential Literature

  05-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a fair bit of children’s literary traffic around the Anglosphere. …But we resist the rest of the world, as if the 90-something per cent of people who don’t principally speak English have no stories to tell us. Just think what we’re missing!”
  
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• Robin Hamlyn obituary

  05-09-2016 15:39
  
  My husband, Robin Hamlyn, who has died aged 69, was for 30 years a curator at Tate Britain, latterly specialising in the work of William Blake.Robin was in part responsible for several notable acquisitions made by the Tate, among them the Oppé Collection, Millais’s Mariana and eight lost Blake prints, but he is best remembered for his comprehensive Blake exhibition of 2000, which represented the artist as the innovative printer and craftsman he was. Continue reading...
  
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• If A Show Is Written About Millennials, Will They Come To The Theatre?

  05-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One theme all three shows explore is the dual nature of contemporary identity. With the pervasiveness of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, most young adults have two, if not three, versions of themselves—ranging from the public and curated to the private and sometimes secretly chaotic.”
  
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• V&A director Martin Roth set to resign because he feels 'disillusioned by Brexit'

  05-09-2016 15:23
  
  He previously said of the referendum result: 'Dropping out always means creating cultural barriers and that worries me'
  
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• The V&A’s Director, Who Is German, Quits Because Of Brexit Vote

  05-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In interviews with the German broadcaster DW, he said the vote to leave the EU felt like a personal defeat and he was particularly upset to hear aggressive ‘war rhetoric’ during the referendum campaign.”
  
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• Imagine There’s No Grade Levels

  05-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The key is to have a rich, detailed view of what the student knows and can do. Advancement will then be at the student’s pace, but there will be expectations for how quickly a student should advance.”
  
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• The Dreamscapes Of Book Lovers

  05-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re in love with his bookish illustrations of charming scenes that incorporate actual books as playful visual metaphors and design elements. The fantastical drawings evoke that special, happy place that books inspire.”
  
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• Turning STEM Into STEAM With Theatre

  05-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When science is presented through theatre, students aren’t as afraid of getting things wrong and feel free to shout out, or even dance, answers.”
  
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• Queen Victoria’s etchings up for grabs at leafy UK art fair

  05-09-2016 13:16
  
  An art fair with a difference (i.e. its non-profit) is due to launch this weekend (10-11 September) in the depths of West Sussex. The setting is Whithurst Park, a palatial neo-Jacobean residence, with works on show in the house and grounds by more than 50 established and emerging artists including Jacob Wolff and Kitty Shepherd. Etchings by Queen Victoria dating from the early 1840s, which once belonged to Georgiana, Duchess of Sutherland, the Queens lady-in-waiting (1806-68), should pleas
  
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• V&A director Martin Roth to leave in the autumn

  05-09-2016 11:57
  
  Martin Roth is to step down as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) this autumn after five years in the post. The news came as a surprise and he is leaving at short notice. The Sunday Times broke the story by saying that Roth had become disillusioned with an increasingly insular Britain, post-Brexit.Roth was one of few UK museum directors to speak out publicly against quitting the European Union. Born in Germany, he is a committed European, recently telling the German broadcaste
  
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• New arts district to boost Johannesburg’s cultural credentials

  05-09-2016 10:00
  
  A new arts district, the Keyes Art Mile, is taking shape in Johannesburg. This month, the businessman Anton Taljaard will unveil the first completed building in his redevelopment of a two-block area of Rosebank, a leafy residential neighbourhood in the centre of the city, which is already home to contemporary art galleries such as Everard Read and Circa.The Trumpet building, an office block built in the 1980s, has been revamped and turned into a mixed-use space with restaurants, high-end design
  
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• Great Fire anniversary: wooden replica of 17th century London burnt to the ground

  05-09-2016 08:32
  
  Flames destroyed 120-metre model and lit up banks of Thames to mark 350 years since Great Fire started in bakery on Pudding LaneA massive wooden replica of 17th-century London has been torched on the River Thames to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, which paved the way for the building of the modern city.
  Onlookers crowded along the riverto watch as the 120-metre-long (394ft) wooden model was set alight. Related: 350th anniversary of the great fire of London – in pict
  
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• Great Fire anniversary: wooden replica of 17th-century London burned to the ground

  05-09-2016 08:32
  
  Flames destroyed 120-metre model and lit up banks of Thames to mark 350 years since Great Fire started in bakery on Pudding LaneA massive wooden replica of 17th-century London has been torched on the River Thames to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, which paved the way for the building of the modern city.
  Onlookers crowded along the riverto watch as the 120-metre-long (394ft) wooden model was set alight. Related: 350th anniversary of the great fire of London – in pict
  
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• Great Fire of London replica blazes on the banks of the Thames – video

  05-09-2016 02:42
  
  A 120m long model of the 17th century London skyline burns to ashes to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. The fire began at a bakery in Pudding Lane on 2 September 2, 1666. Five days later, 80% of the city was burnt to the ground, but fewer than 10 people died. Continue reading...
  
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• 350th anniversary of the great fire of London – in pictures

  05-09-2016 01:20
  
  The great fire’s 350th commemoration, London’s Burning, is a festival of arts and ideas. It culminated with a spectacular 120-metre-long model of the 17th-century London skyline being set ablaze on the Thames Continue reading...
  
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• Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan collection to be auctioned

  05-09-2016 01:01
  
  Works including items by Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso will raise funds to preserve couple’s former studio at Durham WharfWorks of art from a very private collection belonging to Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan, which includes items by Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso, will go on auction to raise funds to preserve the studio that served as the couple’s creative hub for over 40 years.Durham Wharf on the Thames in Hammersmith, west London, has survived decades amid the rising apartment c
  
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