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• Courtauld Gallery to close for two years for £50m revamp

  23-11-2017 20:12
  Redevelopment aims to improve access and open up Great Room at Institute renowned for impressionist paintingsThe Courtauld Gallery in central London, home to such masterpieces as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, will be closed for at least two years during a £50m redevelopment.The gallery confirmed the length of its closure on Thursday, calling it a “transformation project which will see the Courtauld improve acces
  
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• Bilbao on the prairie: why does tiny Saskatoon need an $85m art gallery?

  23-11-2017 18:00
  Saskatoon’s awe-inspiring new Remai gallery has vast ambitions. But does the overspend and hype about indigenous art justify all the bluster?‘This isn’t just a gallery, it’s an act of making a city,” says Bruce Kuwabara, founding partner of KPMB Architects, at the opening of the Remai Modern, a vast glass-and-steel art museum in Saskatoon. The C$84.6m (£51m) project would be a major event for any city, let alone a small university town of 250,000 in the wheat-
  
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• Unity Spencer obituary

  23-11-2017 11:55
  Daughter of Stanley Spencer who was a talented painter with a powerful imaginative visionUnity Spencer, who has died aged 87, was perhaps best known for being the daughter of the artist Stanley Spencer, but she was also a talented painter in her own right, a skilful realist with a powerful imaginative vision. Two of her best and most memorable works, which reveal her father’s influence, are a striking self-portrait from 1954, and a 1957 portrait of Stanley himself.She had three solo shows
  
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• A Warning About The Imprisonment Of The French Language

  23-11-2017 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Facing the "aberration" of gender-inclusive styles, the French language is henceforth in "mortal peril." (Yes, it says that.) Adaptations such as écrivaine for female writer, or la ministre for a female minister, will end in a "disunified language, disparate in its expression, creating a confusion that verges on illegibility." The new spellings and syntactical signs will burden teachers and complicate reading. The dream of a coherent francophonie – the international community of Fre
  
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