Arts news

At last—Yoko Ono’s banned bottoms film is bared in London

25-03-2017 17:43

When the artist Yoko Ono made the film Bottoms in 1967, officials at the Royal Albert Hall in London refused to show the 80-minute piece which consists of nothing but close-up shots of 365 bums. According to the UK newspaper, the i, Marion Herrod, the venue secretary, was enflamed by the proposal, saying: We are concerned with the protection of the hall and I was not convinced that we should not have disruptive behaviour from way-out elements. The film was shot in a London residence after O

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How A Small Kansas Town Promoted The Arts Without Government Funding

25-03-2017 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com

"Hays, a college town with about 21,000 residents, is a case study of how the arts can continue to thrive when public funds dry up. But it is also a cautionary tale of the sometimes-hidden costs."

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My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington

25-03-2017 07:30

Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealierIn most families the ghosts are dead but in my family, somewhere out there, our ghost was still alive. Her name was Prim, and she had left us on an autumn day in 1937, when she was only 20. Prim was the empty chair at Sunday lunch. She was the unseen aunt at the christenings of her nephews and niece. She was the cousin

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Museum rescues sculptor Camille Claudel from decades of obscurity

25-03-2017 01:03

French artist, once the lover of Auguste Rodin, has her career celebrated with opening of museum in Nogent-sur-SeineTwo elderly ladies sit side by side, one English, one French, one smartly dressed, one wearing clothes that were already very old fashioned by the late 1920s when the photograph was taken. One, her hand reassuringly on the other, looks slightly towards the camera: the other is wrapped in her own thoughts, not reacting to the camera, her companion or the world.The photograph is the

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25-03-2017 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com

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