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• Amsterdam gallery owner recalls how sale of Banksy work saved staff jobs

  25-12-2020 13:00
  
  Kim Logchies-Prins tells how employees gathered around canvas, sold for £1.5m, to give thanksThe owner of an art museum in Amsterdam who sold a prized Banksy painting for £1.5m to avoid laying off staff during the coronavirus pandemic has told how her employees gathered around the canvas to give thanks.Kim Logchies-Prins, co-founder with her husband, Lionel, of the Moco museum of modern, contemporary and street art, said she joined 20 of the office staff to pay respects and say goodb
  
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• Mary Wollstonecraft statue becomes one of 2020's most polarising artworks

  25-12-2020 11:30
  
  Maggi Hambling’s north London sculpture aimed to provoke debate – and a survey of passersby shows it has certainly done that“It’s marvellous, I think it is unbelievably beautiful,” said Hilary Everett, a retired social worker, as she walked past one of the most controversial, most debated and most polarising public artworks of 2020.But Michaela Crimmin, a reader in art passing by a few minutes later, disagreed: “I loathe it. There’s no aesthetic to it. T
  
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• Snowy scenes and a scintillating Monet – the week in art

  25-12-2020 10:00
  
  Hendrick Avercamp captures the joy of winter, Turner shows us the beauty and bitterness of the countryside in the cold and icy violence is painted out – all in your weekly dispatchWinter Landscape, about 1630, by Hendrick Avercamp
  Winter was fun in the 1630s to judge from this painting by a Dutch artist who specialised in snowy scenes. They had no central heating or modern thermal clothes, bubonic plague remained rife and famine was a threat – but the people in this picture couldn&rs
  
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• Research: The Role Dreaming Plays In Ideas, Personality, And Who We Are

  25-12-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Research about REM/dreaming began in the mid-1950s and accelerated sharply with advances in neuroimaging. We now know that, independently of sleep – that is, of non-REM sleep – REM/dreaming plays an essential role in learning and memory, mood and immunity, as well as in creativity and artistic expression. Just as important, REM/dreaming stretches, expands and reshapes our very consciousness. From Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, REM/dreaming effectively morphs our fundament
  
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