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• The connoisseurs’ preserve needs expansion

  16-04-2017 23:00
  
  The three books under review hereCarpets of Afghanistan, The Carpet and the Connoisseur: the James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs and Early Carpets and Tapestries on the Eastern Silk Roadtake a traditional approach to the subject, in many ways a study established from the late 19th century.Textiles are in general still considered as a minor art within the traditional hierarchy of architecture, sculpture and paintings. Carpets, on the other hand, belong to the upper realms of art history
  
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• Sharon Lockhart gives voice to ‘troubled girls’ and Jewish orphans at the Venice Biennale

  16-04-2017 23:00
  
  While travelling to Poland over the last eight years for a series of photographs and films of school-age girls, the Los Angeles artist Sharon Lockhart kept noticing the name Korczak on local institutions. She had stumbled into the legacy of the Jewish-Polish pediatrician Janusz Korczak, who died in 1942 in the Holocaust. For her installation in the Polish pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Lockhart is paying tribute to Dr Korczaks work as well as honoring the 47 troubled girls, ages 13 to 18, who
  
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• Sharon Lockhart gives voice to Polish girls and Jewish orphans at the Venice Biennale

  16-04-2017 23:00
  
  While travelling to Poland over the last eight years for a series of photographs and films of school-age girls, the Los Angeles artist Sharon Lockhart kept noticing the name Korczak on local institutions. She had stumbled into the legacy of the Jewish-Polish pediatrician Janusz Korczak, who died in 1942 in the Holocaust. For her installation in the Polish pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Lockhart is paying tribute to Dr Korczaks work as well as honoring the 47 troubled girls, ages 13 to 18, who
  
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• Let perception be your guide: how to see the Rococo

  16-04-2017 23:00
  
  Any aficionado of Germanys Baroque and Rococo abbeys will be familiar with the tiny church guides (Kirchenfhrer) for sale next to the collection box and published by the likes of Josef Fink or Schnell & Steiner, with their gorgeous photographs, meticulous plans and precise, scholarly information for the visitor. The Swiss art historian Nicolaj van der Meulens colossal new monograph, Der Parergonale Raum: zum Verhltnis von Bild, Raum und Performanz in der Sptbarocken Benediktinerabtei Zwiefal
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: returning home

  16-04-2017 23:00
  
  Sunday 26th March: My 97 year old father Trevor driving at top speed, a deadly 190 MPH, through parts of Brooklyn like Montral, realised he has not driven in decades, so dangerous, like GTA, I was being thrown everywhere in the back seat, sent flying from side to side, tossed in air. Only on waking realised that my brain had managed to come up with this whole scenario of a crazy car race to explain being thrown around on my bed by the rough sea. I ask Lou Sheppard how she is this morning, Swell
  
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• Millicent Fawcett is the right feminist, by the wrong sculptor | Letters

  16-04-2017 19:32
  
  Rachel Holmes (A feminist statue is welcome. Shame it’s the wrong feminist, 15 April) is disappointed that Millicent Fawcett has been chosen as “the first woman to warrant a likeness” in Parliament Square. Holmes writes that this is part of the “airbrushing of history that makes the fight for women’s suffrage palatable in a contemporary context”. She also implies that the contribution of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, of which Millicen
  
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• Richard Long: 'I'm proud of being the first person to cross Dartmoor in a straight line'

  16-04-2017 16:00
  
  He has walked the Earth, recording his traces and turning them into mysterious works of land art. Now 71, with a new show in Norfolk, art’s great hiker talks about cloud-chasing in France, sculpting on Kilimanjaro – and the paths that lie aheadSixteen enormous tree stumps, their roots turned towards the sky, stand in a circle in a country park. The mist and deer gather around. This magical-looking sculpture is placed where the Norfolk hamlet of Houghton once stood, until Sir Robert W
  
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• Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable review – beautiful and monstrous

  16-04-2017 09:00
  
  Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice
  Filling two museums with ancient ‘treasure’, Hirst’s spectacular mix of storytelling, invention and humour is art for a post-truth worldTreasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable – Damien Hirst’s decade-in-the-making Venetian extravaganza – is as unbelievable as his title implies. I have never seen a bigger show in my life. The artist has filled not one but two museums with hundreds of objects in marble, gold and
  
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• Chris Ofili: ‘Being in Trinidad is still really exciting… I think it is working for me’

  16-04-2017 09:00
  
  Suffocated by his image as the ‘elephant dung YBA’, painter Chris Ofili left 12 years ago to live and work in Trinidad… Here he describes the island’s strange hold on him, now revealed in the extraordinary tapestry The Caged Bird’s SongIt is a dozen years since Chris Ofili deliberately stepped away from the art worlds of London and New York and moved to Trinidad. At the time Ofili was famous in the popular imagination for two things. He had been, aged 30 in 1998, t
  
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