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• Indoor hospitality and entertainment venues reopen in England – in pictures

  17-05-2021 16:33
  
  The roadmap for lockdown easing continues as pubs reopen indoors and people can travel abroad - to a select group of countries - for holidaysCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Continue reading...
  
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• ‘My cheapo garden fairy lights do this too’ – Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms

  17-05-2021 11:18
  
  Tate Modern, LondonThe Japanese artist turns her visual hallucinations into a flaring and dimming clockwork universe. But I seem to be immune. Perhaps if I brought a small child or was interested in taking selfies …
  All done with lights and looking glasses, Yayoi Kusama’s year-long display of Infinity Mirror Rooms is already booked-out until late October. Viewers must queue and wait, at £10 a head, for two, two-minute dives into Kusama’s universe. Hardly enough time to g
  
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• Billionaire François Pinault fulfils Paris art gallery dream

  17-05-2021 10:00
  
  Contemporary collection finds home in former grain exchange 16 years after plan for Seine island failedFor 20 years, the French billionaire François Pinault has dreamed of opening a museum to display his renowned contemporary art collection in Paris.The original plan was to build a massive concrete and glass structure on an abandoned island in the River Seine three miles from the Eiffel Tower. When that sparked planning and legal rows and proved impossible, the tycoon moved his collection
  
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• The Great British Art Tour quiz: a 17th-century selfie, a scallop and a small dog

  17-05-2021 07:00
  
  As museums and galleries finally reopen, our Great British Art Tour comes to an end with a quiz to celebrate some of our favourite discoveries from the series. Have you been paying attention?Each of these works, and the answers to our questions, has featured in our series that explored highlights from public collections across the country while art galleries and museums were closed. You can read the four-month series here, produced in collaboration with Art UK, which brings the nation’s ar
  
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