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• David Zwirner to Open Gallery on Upper East Side in Space Shared with New Advisory Firm Adler Beatty

  06-04-2017 23:59 via artnews.com
  In an East Side shakeup, David Zwirner Gallery will be opening a space at 34 East 69th Street, long the home of Richard L. Feigen & Co. And its co-tenant in the building will be Adler Beatty, a new advisory firm started … Read More
  
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• Fausto Melotti at Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

  06-04-2017 23:43 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Big Warning: Moths Are Devouring England's Important Heritage

  06-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A particularly destructive species, Monopis sp., also known as the pale-backed clothes moth, has recently been discovered for the first time by English Heritage, which is now enlisting the help of the public to map the spread and intensity of a menace that only a few decades ago seemed as relevant a historical plague as the Black Death. Anyone with a precious cashmere sweater now resembling a piece of lace will sympathise."
  
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• The Rise Of High-End TV Festivals (Makes Sense, Right, Now That TV Beats Movies)

  06-04-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The French government raised eyebrows recently when it decided to back the creation of a large-scale international drama fest in Northern France’s Lille, which it wants to become the TV counterpart of the iconic Cannes Film Festival. The announcement came as city officials in Cannes itself said they would create their own rival international drama festival to run alongside MipTV."
  
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• The whole world in wood and copper

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  For roughly four centuries before the invention of photography, prints made with woodcuts or copper plates were the main means of transmitting images. Yet the history of prints lags far behind those of books and art, which share so much in common with it. For historians of the book, the print has only been interesting in so far as it illustrates or decorates a book. For historians of art, the print has often seemed an inferior and derivative genre. Only the greatest printmakers have attracted mu
  
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• The man who wrote art history

  06-04-2017 23:00
  To celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), the first scholar systematically to write art history as a succession of styles, the Neues Museum in Weimar, Germany is holding an exhibition on his work. Winckelmann: Modern Antiquity (7 April-2 July), organised by the Klassik Stiftung in Weimar and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, includes more than 200 exhibits surveying his achievements .Winckelmanns 1764 book The History of Art in Antiquity
  
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• New Moscow triennial includes Crimea in survey show of Russian art

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  The inaugural edition of the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum in Moscow has caused controversy by including a strand of programming that examines artistic life in Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.
  In so doing, the organisers implicitly accept Russias claim to the territory, critics say. But Garage curators reject this. The triennial (until 14 May) is not a political exhibition, they argue, but does reflect geopolitical realities.Although no
  
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• Mat Collishaw brings blooms, birds and Merry Old England to Blain Southern

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  At the same time as Damien Hirst was unveiling his grand Venetian extravaganza (or folly, depending on your point of view) back in London last night (6 April) his old Goldsmiths buddy Mat Collishaw was also opening a pretty spectacular show of his own at Blain Southern. The title piece of The Centrifugal Soul (until 27 May) is a giant spinning zoetrope that when hit by strobe lights becomes a pulsating explosion of exotic avian display, with strutting bowerbirds, birds of paradise and a mu
  
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• Life at the high end: what it is like to work at an auction house

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  These books tell the tale of two of the outstanding personalities of the art market over the last 40 years, Charles Hindlip of Christies and Simon de Pury of Sothebys, and later Phillips de Pury. When the history of auctions is written, the half-century from 1958 will be seen as a golden age, similar to the 1880s. The Sothebys and Christies duopoly went international and remained supreme, only seriously challenged at the turn of millennium, which is part of the story told by De Pury.
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• Flagging Brazilian economy puts a damper on sales at SP-Arte

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  Even before doors opened at this years SP-Arte (5-9 April), South Americas largest modern and contemporary art fair, its organisers knew things were not going to be easy. Last year, at the height of Brazils sharp economic recession and political turmoil following the vote to impeach former president Dilma Rousseff, registered sales had dipped 45%, after reaching an all-time high over the past few years, mirroring the countrys cycle of short-lived boom, and now, steep bust.  
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• British Museum’s ancient Syrian refugee who became king goes online

  06-04-2017 23:00
  
  A 3,500-year-old statue of a refugee from Aleppo that has not left the British Museum (BM) in nearly 80 years because of conservation concerns is now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The London gallery collaborated with Factum Foundation to produce precise 3D renderings of the BMs statue of Idrimia refugee from Syria who rose to be the king of Alalakh, in southern Turkeyusing the latest photogrammetry and 3D-scanning techniques. The 3D scans and digital model of the artefact ar
  
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• A Million People Have Moved Out Of New York City Since 2010 (Only Half The Story)

  06-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Net domestic migration to New York City metro area (which includes the five boroughs plus slivers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania) is down by a whopping 900,000 people since 2010. That means that, since 2010, almost a million more people have left New York for somewhere else in America than have moved to New York from another U.S. metro—more than any other metro in the country. This is the “fleeing” that the Post finds so “alarming.” But the New York metro has also
  
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• Atlanta Ballet Is Losing Half Its Dancers, Including All Its Stars

  06-04-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Multiple sources within the company told ArtsATL that the departures are the culmination of a culture clash between the open and modernistic atmosphere fostered by previous artistic director John McFall that was embraced by the dancers, and the classical ballet ethos favored by Gennadi Nedvigin, the new Bolshoi-trained artistic director."
  
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• What It Really Costs To Attend The Coachella Festival

  06-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Entry fees are only half the battle. You’ll spend quite a bit on lodging, transportation, food and alcohol as well. In fact, hotel prices for Coachella weekends are 140% higher than normal, according to hotel booking website Trivago. Even compared to last year, hotel costs for properties within 10-miles of the festival are up by $120.
  
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• Analyst/Project Manager

  06-04-2017 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Webb Management Services is a management consulting practice specializing in the development and operation of cultural facilities and organizations, with a focus on the performing arts. We are currently in search of a Project Manager to help us develop feasibility studies, business plans and strategic plans, as well as other related types of research, working out of our office in New York City.Initially, the position will be focused on the collection, analysis and presentation of information rel
  
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• Wang Bing Wins 2017 EYE Art & Film Prize

  06-04-2017 21:15 via artnews.com
  Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum announced today that Beijing–based filmmaker Wang Bing has won its 2017 EYE Art & Film Prize, which recognizes artists who blur the boundaries between art and film. Bing, who will receive £25,000 (around $31,205) for winning, will … Read More
  
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• Artica Svalbard, a Norwegian Foundation in the Arctic Circle, Announces First Artists in Residence

  06-04-2017 21:13 via artnews.com
  Artica Svalbard, a recently formed foundation in a far-flung settlement in the unincorporated Norwegian archipelago region of Svalbard, north of Norway and near the top of Greenland, has tapped artists for a residency program in the town of Longyearbyen. The … Read More
  
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• A Growing Nationalism In Harpsichord Playing Is Killing It

  06-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’ve heard leading figures in the harpsichord world give recitals that were played as if someone had died. Personally, I’d rather have dental surgery than hear recitals such as these, but there are those who applaud the fact that “you always know where you stand with them.” Really?! Could you imagine going to bed with someone like that, always knowing where you stand with him? “OK, see you same time, same place next year!”
  
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• Does Banning Cultural Appropriation Lead To A Dead End?

  06-04-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Should an artist be prohibited from painting certain subjects because of her background, and what happens to the fluidity of culture if artists are fenced-in by their identities and ethnicities? Does perceived injustice resulting from the appropriation of black suffering justify censorship? Or is the destruction of art fundamentally illiberal?"
  
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• Don Rickles Dies At 90

  06-04-2017 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When Mr. Rickles developed his stand-up act in the 1950s, his humor was considered shocking, with a raw, abrasive, deeply personal edge. If he wasn’t the first “insult comic,” he was by far the most successful and most widely imitated, becoming a fixture on television and in nightclubs for decades."
  
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• He's The Most Hated King In India's Long History, But Does He Really Deserve It?

  06-04-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was no saint: he (over-)extended the empire to the largest territory it ever had, but he killed his brothers and imprisoned his father (Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal). Aurangzeb is also said - especially by modern-day Hindu nationalists, including the ones in the current government - to have killed countless Hindus, destroyed countless temples, and to have ignored or suppressed the great Indian artistic traditions brought to their height by his great-grandfath
  
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• Politics and performance take centre stage at Documenta 14 in Athens

  06-04-2017 19:58
  
  If you want to be surprised by art, go to Athens. Documenta 14, which opened to invited guests in the Greek capital today (6 April), puts lesser-known artists from far-flung countries at the forefront; big names are few and far between. The idea is to shake preconceptions amid the current sad and threatening state of official politics, the artistic director Adam Szymczyk said at todays press conference.
  For the first time, the prestigious contemporary art exhibition opens in a city other than K
  
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• Colorado Ballet Notches A Record Season At The Box Office

  06-04-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Seven years ago, the Colorado Ballet appeared to be at a financial death’s door, but Saturday’s bustle and a 2017 season finishing with record attendance and box-office receipts show the company is very much alive."
  
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• Imagining The Future Is Now Big Business

  06-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The industry doesn't have a name, but its main product does: Design fiction. "It's science fiction made real in the form of interactive exhibitions, product demonstrations, and behind-the-scenes consulting work. And it tends to pop up at any event Davos-ish enough to include the word 'influencers.'" Kyle Chayka visits both a leading studio in the field, as well as perhaps the biggest example of design fiction: the Museum of the Future in Dubai.
  
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• Constable in Brighton: exhibition for the master

  06-04-2017 18:26
  
  Paintings of glittering seas, towering waves and beached boats hint at artist’s empathy with his Sussex home of 1824-1828When the artist Peter Harrap moved to Brighton, to a narrow street sloping down towards the sea, he set up his studio in an upper room with a north facing window – and then discovered to his surprise that he was not the first artist to appreciate its airy light. Almost two centuries earlier John Constable had set up his easel there in the seaside lodgings he had ta
  
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• Constable in Brighton exhibition collects master's paintings of glittering seas

  06-04-2017 18:26
  
  Paintings of towering waves and beached boats hint at artist’s empathy with his Sussex home of 1824-1828When the artist Peter Harrap moved to Brighton, to a narrow street sloping down towards the sea, he set up his studio in an upper room with a north-facing window – and then discovered to his surprise that he was not the first artist to appreciate its airy light. Almost two centuries earlier John Constable had set up his easel there in the seaside lodgings he had taken for his wife&
  
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• Can The Arts Bring People Together In Areas Of Conflict?

  06-04-2017 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is currently a rise in interest in the work of artists in areas of conflict. This work runs the risk of ascribing too much power to art, whereby it is seen as a potential panacea to the ills of the world."
  
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• Image of Putin made up like a gay clown banned in Russia

  06-04-2017 18:07
  
  No, this is not an April Fools joke. Russias ministry justice has banned an image of Vladimir Putin in clownish make-up that hints at the allegedly non-standard sexual orientation of the Russian president as extremist material. A rash of recently passed Internet extremism laws has allowed the government to silence critics by shutting down their websites and sentencing anyone who shares or even likes banned posts to prison. The image was one of many that became popular at protests against the co
  
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• The (Surprisingly Complicated) History Of Catalog Cards At The Library Of Congress

  06-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Librarians spent decades figuring out how to best organize its constantly growing collections, which would render systems dated as their contents reflected new industries, and thus required new vocabularies. Heads butt over how to organize the stacks; casual rivalries even arose between librarians who had different visions."
  
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• London’s Flat Time House reopens after Italian foundation steps in to save it

  06-04-2017 17:51
  
  Flat Time House Institute, the former home and studio of the late British artist John Latham in Peckham, south London, reopened yesterday, 6 April. The space was saved from permanent closure by the Santarelli Family and the Dino and Ernesta Santarelli Foundation, which agreed to buy the building at 210 Bellenden Road last year after a public campaign to raise more than 1m failed to meet its target. Latham considered Flat Time House a "living sculpture", and gave different human attributes
  
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• The MoMA Curator Who Lives In An Apartment With Almost Nothing In It

  06-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Klaus Biesenbach lives in an all-white, 550-square-foot high-rise apartment that contains little more than a table, a bed, a couch and two or three chairs. His favorite feature is the view from his window, which he photographs every day and posts to Instagram for his #window23 project. “It’s a calming place because there aren’t many distractions,” he said. “That’s what makes the window so important. How can you compete with the world?”
  
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• Why Authoritarians Attack The Arts

  06-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  University of Chicago sociologist Eve L. Ewing: "Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. ... Authoritarian leaders throughout history have intuited this fact and have acted accordingly."
  
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• Outwitting The Companies That Want To Mine And Sell Your Browser History?

  06-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thomas Beller writes about "Internet Noise," a piece of software that will load your history with countless randomly generated search requests - the idea being that your real history will be drowned within all the "noise." Brilliant? Or quixotic? (Quixotic, we're afraid.)
  
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• State-Of-The-Art New Dance Studio Will Give Away 5,000 Hours Of Free Rehearsal Space Every Year

  06-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The just-opened Studio Wayne McGregor (yes, the choreographer) in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will make the free space available to dance artists at all career stages. But there's a catch - a good one ...
  
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• The Biennale of Sydney Announces First Names for 2018 Edition

  06-04-2017 15:44 via artnews.com
  The Biennale of Sydney released the names of 21 artists who will be featured in its 21st edition in 2018. This initial list includes Ai Weiwei, Laurent Grasso, Haegue Yang, and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. In commemoration of its 45th anniversary, the Sydney Biennale will also revisit … Read More
  
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• U2's Producer Is Now Selling CD With Kentucky Fried Chicken In Indonesia

  06-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It sounds, surreal, but it's true: Steve Lillywhite, who has won six Grammys, is now CEO of a Jakarta company that compiles and packages pop music discs that are sold in KFC restaurants throughout Indonesia. They move half a million CDs every month.
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for Documenta 14

  06-04-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  After years of secrecy, Documenta 14 has quietly released its artist list on its website. This year’s quinquennial, which is headed by Adam Szymczyk, takes place in Athens and Kassel, Germany. Its Greek half opens to the public on Saturday, and a preview was … Read More
  
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• New Museum Of American Revolution Surpasses $150 Million Fundraising Goal

  06-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thanks to a $2.5 million gift from Comcast/NBCUniversal and the Roberts Foundation, the Philadelphia museum, which opens on April 19, has raised a total of $152 million for its building and endowment.
  
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• The First Theatre Critic? 17th-Century Notebook On Shakespeare's Plays Discovered On 'Antiques Roadshow'

  06-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Appraiser Matthew Haley was visibly trembling as he examined the tiny manuscript, written in Latin in 17th-century script. "We don't know who the person who wrote it is," says Haley, "but obviously if it's a 17th-century hand they were either going along to Shakespeare's plays when they were being performed and taking notes, or they were reading one of the first four printed editions of Shakespeare, which is really amazing."
  
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• Morning Links: Daughterhood of the Traveling Pants Edition

  06-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The Believer, Acclaimed And Offbeat Magazine, Is Moving To Vegas

  06-04-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five-time National Magazine Award finalist, which has had contributors ranging from Nick Hornby to Anne Carlson to Lemony Snicket Daniel Handler, had been published by McSweeney's since it was founded in 2003. The title has been purchased by the Black Mountain Institute at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and will be edited by the Institute's executive director, Joshua Wolf Shenk.
  
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• Rome to remove graffiti defacing Kentridge’s graffiti

  06-04-2017 14:47
  
  Who says the Eternal City doesnt care about contemporary art? Roman authorities have responded to a plea from the South African artist William Kentridge to remove the graffiti defacing Triumphs and Laments, his 550m-long mural along the river Tiber. Since it was unveiled last April, the giant frieze has fallen foul of local vandals, who have filled the gaps between the figureseach one representing a moment in the history of Romewith their own coloured tags. The mayors office announced today (6
  
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• The Latest Plan For An Art Museum In Las Vegas

  06-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Columnist Carol Cling: "Seems we've heard this song before. Not that Las Vegas' cultural boosters could ever ignore the siren call of a major local art museum. At least the folks behind the latest attempt - the backers of the proposed Art Museum at Symphony Park - seem to be doing the right things."
  
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• English National Opera 'Would Not Survive' Without Musicals, Says Producer Who Does Musicals There

  06-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Linnit, who co-produces the musicals presented at the Coliseum, ENO's home theatre (and London's largest), said the company "only produces its opera six months of the year, so we facilitate those six months by taking in musicals, producing a lot of money for it. ... It [ENO] would not survive without the additional rental weeks."
  
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• International Diplomacy Isn't Theatrical, But Playwrights Keep Putting It Onstage - How Do They Pull It Off?

  06-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And they do pull it off: Oslo. A Walk in the Woods. Stuff Happens. The Prisoner's Dilemma. Pacific Overtures. (Okay, that was gunboat diplomacy.) Even Call Me Madam. "[Alexis Soloski] recently discussed stagecraft and statecraft with the authors of past, current and coming plays. Unfortunately, writing hasn't improved their own negotiating skills. 'That's why I have an agent,' [one of them] said."
  
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• Scotland To Get Its First-Ever (!) Dedicated Dance Theatre

  06-04-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former English National Ballet director Peter Schaufuss has teamed up with video game tycoon Leslie Benzies (Grand Theft Auto) to buy a historic but disused church in Edinburgh and turn it into a venue for both local and international touring companies.
  
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• National Portrait Gallery acquires Wellington painting after £1.3m plea

  06-04-2017 13:04
  
  NPG raises funds to buy Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished Duke of Wellington portrait to plug 161-year gap in its collectionIt has taken an extremely long time – 161 years – but the National Portrait Gallery finally has the Duke of Wellington in its collection after a fundraising campaign reached its £1.3m target.The gallery announced on Thursday that it had acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished final portrait of a man regarded as Britain’s greatest soldier
  
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• National Portrait Gallery to collect pub signs, pilgrim badges and Yoruba sculpture

  06-04-2017 13:00
  
  Londons National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is to expand its collection to include significantly more works created before around 1500, with a view to displaying its pre-Tudor objects for the first time. The gallery is also seeking to enhance its holdings of works made outside of the UK, which, until now, have been restricted to portraits of sitters who have had a significant impact on British life and culture.Looking at pre-Tudor material is a real departure for the gallery, says Louise Stewart, t
  
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• Magic black: Air-Ink, the artists' supplies made from vehicle pollution

  06-04-2017 11:53
  
  Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs nextIn 2014, the World Health Organisation dubbed air pollution the “single largest environment and human health threat”. With particulate matter and toxic pollutants accounting for 6.5 million deaths annually, many cities around the globe are gasping for solutions. Engineer Anirudh Sharma has come up with a creative approach. While walking in Mum
  
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