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• 100 Artists Call Out / The Steamship PS / London

  02-06-2019 23:40
  The Steamship is accepting submissions to its upcoming show titled '100'.100 will be a chaotic convergence of disciplines.We are looking for 100 artists from all backgrounds and processes. The only...
  
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• Slate Commissions 2019 / Eclipse Theatre Company / Yorkshire / North of England

  02-06-2019 21:11
  Eclipse has announced the final round of Slate commissioning. We welcome applications from Black* artists based in the North** of England, working across any art form (including, but not limited to,...
  
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• Colour Printing Course / Slaughterhaus Print Studio / London

  02-06-2019 21:02
  Sunday 7 July 2019, 11.00- 4.00pmTutor: Michelle AvisonCost: £70. Inks and collagraph papers included.
   
  A day of colour printing, experimenting with two etching plates printed...
  
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• Embodied Artist Retreat / Embodied Artists / South West

  02-06-2019 20:16
  🎭🎟The Embodied Artist international retreat is back.🎭🎟
  A call out for artists, performers, actors and expressive beings who are hungry to nurture their creative souls...
  
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• The Guardian view on Artemisia Gentileschi on tour: the people’s painting | Editorial

  02-06-2019 19:49
  An innovative scheme by the National Gallery has seen a new and prized possession displayed in public buildings across the countryWhen the National Gallery in London acquired a portrait by the great 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi in 2018, the institution asked itself how this remarkable work, showing the painter in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, might help it fulfil its role as a truly national museum. The gallery has a long history of lending to other institutions. But o
  
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• Physical Performers for Combined Poetry & Physical Theatre Event / Naked Frank Theatre / London / South East

  02-06-2019 19:44
  Calling All Performers: 
  - From a professional background in acting, physical theatre or physical performance practices.- Who are comfortable with delivering complex text and dialogue for...
  
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• Sign writer / painter artist / Eye Candy Dudley / West Midlands

  02-06-2019 17:34
  We're looking for a talented sign writer/painter or artist/designer with a love of typography to run several workshops for community groups in Dudley.
  We are working with local groups and...
  
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• Van Gogh: Markmaking & Colour / Slaughterhaus Print Studio / London

  02-06-2019 16:36
  Thursday 4, 11 & 18 July 2019, 6- 9pm
  Tutor: Rob White, Michelle Avison
  Cost: £180. Materials included.
  Van Gogh was really influenced by printmaking, though he made few prints himself....
  
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• Colour Collagraph Course / Slaughterhaus Print Studio / London

  02-06-2019 16:03
  Monday 1, 8,15, 22 July, 10.00-4.00pm
  Tutor: Rob White
  Cost: £235, includes acrylic sheet 30 x 40cm, inks and proofing paper.
  On this course you will make multiple collagraph plates on...
  
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• Charity Print Auction / Morley College / London

  02-06-2019 15:58
  Morley College London is pleased to announce that its Printmaking department will host a charity print auction on 11 June, with all proceeds being donated to cancer charities Marie...
  
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• Artist Call Out. Thinkers/writer/poets FEMINISTS men and women / Womens House / London

  02-06-2019 15:45
  ARTIST CALL OUT!!!
 We are looking for artists, poets, writers and thinkers to take part in a short one week project to show what feminism is today compared to 1972.
  We are putting together a...
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci expert declines to back Salvator Mundi as his painting

  02-06-2019 14:00
  Dr Carmen Bambach believes the polymath likely only did small retouchings to the workOne of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci has criticised Christie’s auction house for wrongly suggesting in its cataloguing of the Salvator Mundi that she was among scholars who had attributed the picture to the Renaissance master.Dr Carmen Bambach, who is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, told the Guardian: “That is not representative of my opinion.” Re
  
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• Get Up, Stand Up Now: Black British art's response to the Windrush scandal

  02-06-2019 09:00
  A new exhibition celebrates black British creativity from the 1970s to the present day. Its curator discusses the show and talks us through eight key pieces“As a child, my superheroes were artists,” says Zak Ové. Perhaps it was inevitable growing up in a bohemian west London household with his father, Horace, a Trinidad-born artist who arrived in the UK in 1960 and became a key figure in British film, TV and photography. Horace was the first black British film-maker to direct
  
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• ‘The public has a right to art’: the radical joy of Keith Haring

  02-06-2019 08:00
  Colourful and cartoonish, accessible and political, Keith Haring’s work has never gone out of fashion. But what drove him?• ‘He has changed things’: Keith Haring remembered by those who knew himThough he died in 1990, in many ways Keith Haring is still alive. His art is everywhere. There are Haring T-shirts, Haring shoes, Haring chairs. You can buy Haring baseball hats and badges and baby-carriers and playing cards and stickers and keyrings.Keith Haring’s work pops u
  
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• ‘It's the fun and joy I remember’: Keith Haring by his friends

  02-06-2019 08:00
  On the eve of a major UK exhibition, friends and fellow artists remember the beloved pop art maverick• ‘The public has a right to art’: the radical joy of Keith Haring Continue reading...
  
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• Artist reveals why her Turner prize victory was ‘bittersweet’

  02-06-2019 01:05
  Lubaina Himid, the first woman of colour to win the award, was once told, ‘black people don’t make art’Lubaina Himid, the first black woman to win, in 2017, the Turner prize, has spoken of the challenges faced by her and other artists of colour in the early days of her career, saying the establishment considered them “alien”, and one person even told her: “Black people don’t make art.”Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island
  
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