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• Object lessons: a Charles Nègre paper negative and a complete first edition of Goya's bullfight engravings

  02-04-2017 23:00
  
  Charles Ngre, Arles, Porte des Chtaignes (1852)The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from The Joy of Giving Something Foundation Evening Sale, Phillips New York, 3 AprilEstimate $70,000-$90,000 This unique paper negative is the very sheet that Ngre, a painter turned photographic pioneer in the 1840s, exposed in his camera and initialled in ink on the verso. Compared with a transparent negative, it can be difficult to capture sharp detail with a paper negative, and the uncommon degree of t
  
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• Museums take a loo break to celebrate Duchamp Fountain centenary

  02-04-2017 23:00
  
  This Sunday, 9 April, museums around the world, from Kyoto to Jerusalem to New York, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the most influential artwork of all time (according to a 2004 poll of 500 art experts): Marcel Duchamps ready-made, Fountain, a porcelain urinal with no intervention but the signature R. Mutt 1917. The date is the centenary of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York, which rejected Fountainsubmitted under the pseudonym Richard Mutt by
  
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• Culture on the frontline: Penn Museum shows curators are fighting to save in Syrian and Iraq

  02-04-2017 23:00
  
  Many US museums have been closely monitoring the on-going destruction of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. But few have had boots on the ground like the Penn Museum. The Philadelphia institutions curators and researchers have been on the frontlines of the battle to safeguard cultural heritage in conflict zones. Now, they have organised an exhibition that seeks to illustrate just how high the stakes are.Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories From Syria and Iraq (8 April-26 November) presents more th
  
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• Culture on the frontline: Penn Museum shows artefacts curators are fighting to save in Syria and Iraq

  02-04-2017 23:00
  
  Many US museums have been closely monitoring the on-going destruction of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. But few have had boots on the ground like the Penn Museum. The Philadelphia institutions curators and researchers have been on the frontlines of the battle to safeguard cultural heritage in conflict zones. Now, they have organised an exhibition that seeks to illustrate just how high the stakes are.Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories From Syria and Iraq (8 April-26 November) presents more th
  
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• Music, nature and the arts are key in education | Letters

  02-04-2017 20:15
  
  I was interested to read Charlotte Gill’s article (theguardian.com, 27 March) about music education in the UK. She is right that opportunities in the arts are not equal. Wealth and background have an unacceptable influence on outcome for young people and there is a great opportunity to level the playing field. The great sorrow is that musical education, as part of a rich and broad curriculum, has been left to decay. As a consequence, private schools and wealthy families obtain a renaissanc
  
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• Skeleton cities and snipers: the shocking photographs that show the scale of Syria's loss

  02-04-2017 16:00
  
  From the shelled-out mall that never opened to a family reclaiming their possessions from rubble, Pulitzer-winning photographer Sergey Ponomarev captured Syria’s tragedy from the insideIn the middle of 2014, after the Syrian government had retaken the city of Homs from rebel fighters, Sergey Ponomarev stood with his camera and surveyed the damage. The photojournalist found a family who had returned to their old flat and captured the scene: in a street buried in rubble and lined with destro
  
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• The painting that has reopened wounds of American racism

  02-04-2017 09:00
  
  New York art world bitterly divided over ‘cultural appropriation’ of 1955 photograph of murdered 14-year-old Emmett TillIt is one of the most powerful images to emerge from the racism that infected the southern states of America in the 1950s – the photograph of a badly beaten 14-year-old boy, lynched after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman, lying in a funeral casket.Now protests over a painting based on the photograph, included in a New York museum show, are
  
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• Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life; Cerith Wyn Evans – review

  02-04-2017 09:00
  
  Sir John Soane’s Museum; Tate Britain, London
  Marc Quinn’s sculptures reduce classicism to blunt desire, while Cerith Wyn Evans’s Tate commission is an illuminated blankMarc Quinn is in love, and lustily so. That is the main news at Sir John Soane’s Museum. If you didn’t know it from the flood of celebrity photographs of the 53-year-old artist in superannuated baseball cap embracing his girlfriend, the towering dancer Jenny Bastet, you could easily deduce it from th
  
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