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• RISD Celebrates MLK

  15-01-2017 22:00
  
  Each year, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island hosts the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Series (MLK Series) of programming to commemorate the life of the civil rights leader, as well as continue his legacy of pursuing social justice, which includes a community service day, workshops and a keynote speech, among other celebrations. The 2017 keynote will be given by the artist, educator and activist Emory Douglas, who was the Blank Panther Partys minister of c
  
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• New Yorkers help Ivanka move

  15-01-2017 22:00
  
  Dozens of protesters wearing TRUMP MOVING caps stormed the Park Avenue home of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on 16 January, carrying cardboard boxes and chanting Tell daddy no, in a demonstration aimed at the couple as they prepared to move to Washington, DC. We want to help them pack and not forget certain things, said the artist Marilyn Minter, who marched with the collector Susan Hort and wore a box labelled Immigrants rights and fragile. Other boxes advocated for reproductive rights, civil
  
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• Matt Mullican delivers a mind-muscle workout at Camden Arts Centre

  15-01-2017 22:00
  
  The performative talks that the artist Matt Mullican has been presenting for more than four decades are the stuff of legend. And his most recent, That World and My Workdelivered yesterday (15 January) as the grand finale on the last day of his show at the Camden Arts Centredidn't disappoint.
  Although the event lasted for well over two hours, the time flew by as a rapt audience, including fellow artists Cornelia Parker and Jeff McMillan, were treated to a three-stage journey via blackboard, proj
  
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• New York City's 2nd Ave subway stations – in pictures

  15-01-2017 16:00
  
  It’s taken almost 100 years to come to fruition, but the new subway stations on the Upper East side are beautiful. Impressive, open spaces with modern mosaics by artists like Chuck Close define the three new stations Continue reading...
  
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• War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917-18 review – a brush with the enemy

  15-01-2017 09:00
  
  Estorick Collection, London
  Artist and first world war fighter pilot Sydney Carline blazes a trail at the newly refurbished Estorick CollectionThe painter is flying above the Alps in a Bristol Fighter. It is the autumn of 1918. He is sitting in the rear observer’s seat, trying to get the dogfights down in rapid watercolour but the water in the paint keeps freezing at this altitude, no matter how hard he tries to warm it with his breath. The paper is nearly ripped from the drawing board by
  
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• ‘Film-making lost its lustre’: how Alan Parker found solace in art

  15-01-2017 01:05
  
  Two years ago the acclaimed director of Bugsy Malone swapped his camera for canvasFrom Bugsy Malone to Mississippi Burning to The Commitments, Sir Alan Parker has a hugely impressive back catalogue of cinema successes. But almost two years ago, at the age of 70, he decided to call time on a career that touched the heights.He had written “a contemporary anarchic piece – a sort of Glaswegian Commitments,” he says, “only with darker humour. A friend of mine said he’d f
  
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• Pompidou Centre gets a £90m facelift 40 years on

  15-01-2017 01:03
  
  The love-it-or-hate-it Paris museum will have a makeover for its anniversary – but the inside-out look will stayIt became the butt of jokes and insults even before it opened in 1977, and they have continued to this day, but the Pompidou Centre is still striking an irreverent pose in the historic heart of Paris. This year, to the enduring frustration of its critics, the building hits the venerable age of 40.The anniversary is to be celebrated with preparations for a two-year facelift expect
  
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