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• Painting the memories evoked by motorways – in pictures

  22-05-2021 18:00
  
  After Jen Orpin’s father had a stroke in September 2015, the Manchester-based artist became very familiar with the journey to Surrey to visit him in hospital: M56, M6, M42, M40, M25. After he died, driving down these motorways evoked visceral feelings, which she has captured in a series of paintings. “I’ve had so many conversations with people recently,” she says, “about childhood memories and nostalgic feelings attached to a special bit of road or a bridge they us
  
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• On my radar: Heather Phillipson’s cultural highlights

  22-05-2021 16:00
  
  The artist, whose latest work is currently gracing Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, on the joy of weather forecasts, a gripping memoir, and the greatness of Theaster GatesBorn in 1978 in London, award-winning artist and poet Heather Phillipson completed a PhD in fine art practice at Middlesex University in 2007. Her work encompasses digital media, music and sculpture, and she has published five volumes of poetry. Her sculpture The End, which depicts a cherry-topped swirl of whipped cream
  
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• Former BBC director general Lord Hall resigns as National Gallery chair

  22-05-2021 15:18
  
  As controversy rages over Diana interview, Tony Hall says continuing in role ‘would be a distraction’Tony Hall has resigned as chairman of the National Gallery amid the ongoing controversy over the BBC Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1995.The corporation’s former director general was severely criticised in Lord Dyson’s report for overseeing a flawed and “woefully ineffective” internal investigation into how Martin Bashir obtained the inter
  
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• Former BBC boss Lord Hall resigns from National Gallery after Diana row

  22-05-2021 15:18
  
  As controversy rages over Panorama interview, Tony Hall says continuing in role ‘would be a distraction’Tony Hall has resigned as chairman of the National Gallery amid the ongoing controversy over the BBC Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1995.The corporation’s former director general was severely criticised in Lord Dyson’s report for overseeing a flawed and “woefully ineffective” internal investigation into how Martin Bashir obtained the in
  
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• Ex-BBC director general Lord Hall resigns as National Gallery chair

  22-05-2021 15:18
  
  Tony Hall says continuing in role ‘would be a distraction’ amid controversy over Diana interview
  Tony Hall has resigned as chairman of the National Gallery amid the ongoing controversy over the BBC Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995.The corporation’s former director general was severely criticised in Lord Dyson’s report for overseeing a flawed and “woefully ineffective” internal investigation into how Martin Bashir obtained the interview.
  
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• How A Book Gets Adapted For A Movie

  22-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not always obvious or a direct line. Start with a good story. Characters that lift off the page. And then it gets complicated. – LitHub
  
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