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• The artist who fills potholes with mosaics – in pictures

  01-05-2021 18:00
  
  Em Emem is an anonymous, Lyon-based artist. “But I’m just a sidewalk poet, a son of bitumen,” he says. His work involves filling potholes and cracked walls on city streets with beautiful mosaic designs, a process he calls “flacking” – a play on the French word flaque, meaning puddle or patch. He started in 2016, after becoming “hypnotised” by the scarred surfaces of the old alley that housed his first workshop. “My work is the story of the ci
  
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• How Holbein left clever clue in portrait to identify Henry VIII’s queen

  01-05-2021 16:00
  
  New evidence shows miniature long held to be of Catherine Howard could depict Henry’s fourth wife, Anne of ClevesCreated in around 1540 by Hans Holbein, court painter to Henry VIII and one of the greatest portraitists of all time, the miniature is a prized treasure in the Royal Collection. But the sitter is unknown, with the artefact long catalogued merely as “Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Catherine Howard”, Henry VIII’s fifth queen.Now, as a result of fresh research, she h
  
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• LS Lowry’s Going to the Match to go under hammer at Sotheby’s

  01-05-2021 11:47
  
  Salford artist’s 1928 painting of crowd flocking to rugby match is expected to sell for up to £3mOne of LS Lowry’s earliest “Going to …” paintings will go on sale for the first time in 50 years, ahead of an anticipated multimillion-pound auction.The Salford artist is well known for his depictions of football, but Going to the Match from 1928 shows Salfordians heading off to a rugby game. Continue reading...
  
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• Eli Broad, billionaire philanthropist who shaped Los Angeles art scene, dies at 87

  01-05-2021 05:49
  
  The entrepreneur-turned-collector financed the Broad museum in LA, and made huge donations to Yale, Harvard and MITEli Broad, the billionaire entrepreneur turned philanthropist and art collector who played an outsized role in shaping the art and cultural scene of Los Angeles, has died at the age of 87.Broad passed away at Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles following a long illness, said Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Related: Los Angeles cultural b
  
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• Canada Post Issues Two Commemorative Stamps Honoring Dancers

  01-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Each Permanent domestic stamp, designed by Stéphane Huot, features a dynamic image of its subject in performance. Karen Kain almost breaches the borders of the three-by-four-centimetre stamp as she flies through the air as the Black Swan in a 1977 photograph by Andrew Oxenham. Fernand Nault is equally airborne in a 1947 outdoor photo shoot on Montreal’s Île Sainte-Hélène.” – Toronto Star
  
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