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• Two views from inside the US's Japanese internment camps

  18-02-2017 22:00
  On 19 February, the US marks a dark 75th anniversary: on this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorising the internment of Japanese-Americans in government camps during the Second World War. The measure was executed amid a wave of anti-Japanese hysteria that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Around 120,000 Japanese-Americansmany of them citizenswere imprisoned.
  This month, a travelling exhibition organised by the Nikkei National Museum
  
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• Landscapes within landscapes: crafty photography – in pictures

  18-02-2017 18:00
  
  Artist Laura Plageman, who works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she grew up, manipulates her photographs physically rather than digitally. In her ongoing series Response, she alters sea and landscapes and forest scenes to create something she describes as being “both a truth and a fiction”. Starting with the printed photographs, she creates a 3D collage, lights it, and photographs the still life. “I like seeing the evidence of the process and the materials showing through
  
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• Clive James: ‘I’ve done a mental survey of TV arts presenters and can’t find any I hate’

  18-02-2017 08:59
  
  It was a miracle on the scale of Lucy Worsley not dressing up as Queen Elizabeth IWere I a would-be TV presenter in search of a role model, Andrew Graham-Dixon would fit the frame. As well as wielding copious explanatory powers about art, he comes over as quite butch, with such non-effete features as a vigorously sane hairstyle and powers of elocution not even half as crazy as some other arty presenters we could name. In the opening chapter of his BBC mega-series, The Art Of Franc
  
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• Michigan art dealer sentenced to 41 months for running Modern art forgery scheme

  18-02-2017 00:23
  
  The Michigan art dealer Eric Spoutz has been sentenced to 41 months in prison, and three years supervised release, for wire fraud charges related to a scheme to sell forgeries of works purportedly by American Modern artists, the US Attorneys Office announced on 16 February. He was also ordered to forfeit the $1.45m of ill-gotten gains he made off the sales, and to pay $154,100 in restitution.
  Eric Spoutz used false and fictitious provenance to peddle his forged artwork to unsuspecting buyers, c
  
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