Arts news

• Sit for Picasso? No thanks…

  15-04-2017 23:00
  
  The French journalist Anne Sinclair has given an enlightening interview to our French sister paper Le Journal des Arts about her late grandfather, the influential art dealer Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959). A recent exhibition at La Boverie in Lige, Belgium, entitled 21 Rue la Botie, featured paintings that passed through Rosenbergs hands, with 63 works on display by artists such as Matisse, Braque and Picasso. In a controversial move, the show did not travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris as plann
  
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• Life on the edge: how will Brexit affect the Northern Irish border?

  15-04-2017 10:00
  
  For years the border was dotted with checkpoints, but now young locals aren’t even sure where it is. That’s all about to change...For the past couple of decades, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been shrinking, not in length but in density, all the apparatus of othering – customs posts, identity checks, soldiers – replaced by simple roadside reminders (blink and you’ll miss them) that speed limits are now in kilometres instead of m
  
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• The Rate Of Customers Ditching Cable Is Speeding Up

  15-04-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "U.S. pay-TV providers lost around 1.9 million subscribers last year, according to the latest research from Kagan, a unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Meanwhile, “virtual” pay-TV services delivered over the internet like Dish’s Sling TV and AT&T’s DirecTV Now didn’t help stop the overall sector from shrinking in 2016."
  
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