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• West Bank heritage site must be more inclusive, says Israeli high court

  14-05-2017 23:00
  
  An Israeli Supreme Court ruling that a West Bank archaeological site must be accessible to visitors of all religions, and display findings from all cultures and historical periods, could have far-reaching effects at other heritage sites in the West Bank and Israel.
  The decision, handed down in February, is legally binding for Israeli planning authorities and unprecedented, says Eitay Mack, the lawyer who argued the case on behalf of the Israeli archaeological organisation Emek Shaveh. The group
  
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• Fourth Plinth artist Michael Rakowitz to serve up Iraqi-Jewish ‘ghost feast’ in London

  14-05-2017 23:00
  
  Michael Rakowitz, one of the artists chosen to make work for the Fourth Plinth in Londons Trafalgar Square in 2018, is to use food as an artistic material for a separate project in the city.
  Rakowitzs tin-can sculpture of an ancient Assyrian winged bull from Nineveh, Iraq, destroyed by Isil, will be seen by thousands of visitors every day when it occupies the Fourth Plinth in 2018. The work is his response to cultural destruction in places such as Iraq and Syria.This July, however, Rakowitz wil
  
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• Carnegie Museum of Art acquires images by Brett Weston – in pictures

  14-05-2017 17:21
  
  The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has acquired 50 images by photographer Brett Weston, the gift of collector Christian Keesee. They represent his career over 40 years, covering his work in landscapes, abstracts and cityscapes, and showcasing his stark black and white printingContinue reading...
  
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• David Lublinski obituary

  14-05-2017 16:56
  
  My father, the artist David Lublinski, who has died aged 85, sculpted in stone, terracotta and papier-mâché, and drew in ink.He exhibited in the UK, Finland and Germany, and paintings in British collections included gifts to Harrow, Hertford College, Oxford, and Exeter University, a purchase by St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a commission by Crediton parish church, Harrow. His unique painting style involved days of meticulous drawing followed by months of brushwork, applying thin oil gl
  
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• 'Crapumenta!' … Anger in Athens as the blue lambs of Documenta hit town

  14-05-2017 16:00
  
  The Greek capital has been invaded by talking frogs, dyed lambs and marble tents. But many locals are furious at the ‘colonial attitudes’ of the German art extravaganza‘Hello, hello,” croaks a voice in the undergrowth. “This is Ben!” I’m in the lower gardens of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, where the sound of frogs and froglike voices seems to be coming from the flowers, bushes and trees that line its manmade waterway. It is a bizarre exp
  
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• 57th Venice Biennale review – the Germans steal the show

  14-05-2017 09:00
  
  Migrant boats, vulnerable teens, a teeming Faustian hell… conscience pervades the Biennale’s big pavilions, while the main international exhibition slips into something more comfortableHigh in the Caucasian mountains, beneath a canopy of blazing blue sky, a tightrope walker inches between two peaks. Nothing prevents him from plummeting but his own skill – and the curious prop of a picture. For he carries a painting from one peak to the other, placing it in a storage frame befo
  
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