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• Green light given for huge British Library extension

  03-02-2023 15:56
  
  Community-focused £500m scheme will build new galleries, a learning centre, green spaces and a home for the Alan Turing Institute of data scienceAn extension of the British Library’s St Pancras site, to include new galleries and event spaces as well as a community garden, has been greenlit.The extension, costing £500m according to Construction News, will create a “brand new public space for London that’s connected to our local community and open to the world”,
  
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• ‘Our own little Vatican’: inside the biggest Catholic parish church in North America

  03-02-2023 15:35
  
  There used to be more people than cows in Visalia, but a new 3,000-seat megachurch has brought Vegas kitsch to the worshippers of California’s Central ValleyWith declining congregations, shuttered chapels and an ever shrinking number of priests, it is easy to assume that church in the US is on the way out for good. As parishes struggle to attract younger generations, and almost a third of Americans now declare no religious affiliation, this one nation under God seems to be rapidly losing i
  
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• Un-macho abstraction, a Venice Lion and questions of queerness – the week in art

  03-02-2023 15:13
  
  The female heroes of abstract expressionism, Sonia Boyce in Margate and an unsettling ruling at Tate Modern – all in your weekly dispatchAction, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70
  Abstract expressionism gets stereotyped as macho, but here are its female heroes, including Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 9 February to 7 May Continue reading...
  
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• Visions splendid: Australian photographer of the year awards – in pictures

  03-02-2023 15:00
  
  The annual photographer of the year winners were chosen from more than 3,000 entries across nine categories. The top prize goes to images captured in the deep south of New Zealand, an area the photographer says she enjoys for its wonderful light and colourWildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice award Continue reading...
  
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• Griff Rhys Jones rails against plans to ‘smother’ Liverpool Street station

  03-02-2023 07:00
  
  Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (350ft) of new offices, shops and a hotel.The comedian, writer and broadcaster has been appointed president of the revived Liverpool Street Station Campaign (Lissca), a post held in the 1970s by the then poet laureate Sir John
  
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