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• Inside Houston's Flooded Alley Theatre - "The Worst Possible Thing"

  02-09-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What starts off as a sensation of the nose and throat soon turns into a full-body experience — a dizzying mixture of rotting wood, rotting paper, infested carpet, swamp-soaked chairs, sewage, bacteria and humidity. The lobby had been entirely submerged in slimy, green-blue-black water since Sunday, allowing the walls and ceilings to soften and melt. Pinch your nose and you can still smell the rot through your mouth. "As a managing director, you always think of the worst possible thing that
  
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• The art of the East London Group – in pictures

  02-09-2017 18:00
  In the 1920s, a group of working-class men, including a haddock-smoker and a painter-decorator, began an art club at Bethnal Green Men’s Institute in London’s East End. What became known as the East London Group expanded and produced luminous, sometimes haunting, realist paintings and attracted tutors including Walter Sickert. Reviewing their show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1931, the Observer’s art critic described them as “intensely fascinating”. Now, many of th
  
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• UK Lottery Sales Have Fallen Precipitously. Uh-Oh For Arts Funding?

  02-09-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Income for National Lottery Good Causes had grown consistently for years up until last year, when Lottery sales income fell by 8.8% and returns to good causes by 14.4%. This resulted in £227.4m for ACE, which was £40.9m less than 2015/16 and £21.6m lower than originally forecast.
  
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