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• Art historian claims Gainsborough painting actually by artist’s nephew

  11-03-2017 22:09
  
  Miss Brummell, which hangs in an English Heritage home, is ‘too messy’ to be the master’s work, according to Hugh BelseyOne of the nation’s treasured paintings by Thomas Gainsborough is not by the 18th-century master but probably the work of the artist’s nephew, a leading art historian maintains.Miss Brummell depicts a young girl cradling a cat in a wooded landscape and is one of a group of old master paintings at Kenwood House, a handsome stately home in Hampstead,
  
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• EVP, External Relations (Chief Fundraising Officer) - Segerstrom Center for the Arts

  11-03-2017 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Segerstrom Center for the Arts seeks an Executive Vice President, External Relations to raise public awareness of SCFTA and its programs in collaboration with the President and other EVP's while also being a hands-on and deeply involved fundraiser.DHR, International has been exclusively retained to conduct a search for the Executive Vice President, External Relations for Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
  THE COMPANY:The Segerstrom Center for the Arts (the Center) is the major arts organization in
  
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• Forgetting but not gone: dementia and the arts

  11-03-2017 19:00
  
  A fascinating project is harnessing the power of the arts to unlock creativity and communicationHarvey’s reaction to his dementia is not what you might expect. “I’m so happy,” he says. “I wouldn’t reverse it for anything.”Harvey has a relatively rare dementia called posterior cortical atrophy or PCA, a variant of Alzheimer’s disease. Inasmuch as he has difficulty remembering things and can’t do basic arithmetic, his condition conforms to the
  
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• ‘He found a style as a painter that matched who he was as a man’: tributes to Howard Hodgkin

  11-03-2017 10:00
  
  The great British painter Sir Howard Hodgkin – abstract artist, portraitist, colourist extraordinaire – died this week at the age of 84. Five admirers remember himI first got to know Howard Hodgkin when I became director of the National Gallery. He had been a trustee from 1978 to 1985, when, among other things, he did an exhibition in a series called The Artist’s Eye. He wanted to cover the room with bright, floral Indian cotton, but wasn’t allowed, so he used blue buntin
  
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