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• Christo, artist who wrapped the Reichstag, dies aged 84

  31-05-2020 23:50
  
  Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude The artist Christo, known for wrapping buildings including Berlin’s Reichstag, and also swathing areas of coast and entire islands in fabric, has died aged 84. The news was confirmed on his official Facebook page, which said that he died of natural causes at his home in New York.Born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria, Christo studied in Sofia and then defected to the west in 1957, stowin
  
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• Rise-Up: Online Course for Artists / PoV / South East / London

  31-05-2020 21:24
  A course for artists - define your new normal.
  Explore the unconscious beliefs and attitudes that have been holding you back from reaching your creative potential. What are you holding on to from...
  
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• NEW Diploma in Creative Producing / Chris Grady / London / UK and International

  31-05-2020 19:27
  Applications are now open, and places being awarded, for the first cloud-based Diploma in Creative Producing from the CGO Institute. A new way to study the tools and the rules of producing whilst...
  
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• This way for Bums and Tums! The discreet charm of the village hall

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Bleak, bulky yet strangely beautiful, village halls are the beating heart of rural Britain, where great events happen for £8 an hour. We meet a photographer celebrating these harmonious hubsA row of karate kids are performing mawashi geri kicks in unison to the cries of their teacher. Coincidentally, in the room next door, the Brownies are learning first aid. The next morning, a gaggle of pensioners arrive and are soon waltzing to wartime classics. Then, by the afternoon, a jumble sale is
  
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• Culture quiz: from Bob Holness 007 to the Daily Mail's feast of filth

  31-05-2020 08:00
  
  Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s criticsFrancis Ford Coppola was given his middle name in honour of who or what? The Ford motor companyMichigan congressman Gerald Ford (later President Ford) Film director John FordWhich painter impressed a pope by drawing a perfect circle?MichelangeloGiottoLeonardo da VinciWhich TV anthology series did Lady Gaga join in 2015?American Horror StoryTrue DetectiveUnsolvedWhich of the following did not happen to Brian De Palma?
  
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