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• How Hollywood Has Avoided Telling The Story Of The Massacre Of Black Tulsa

  30-05-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  We don’t avoid telling stories about difficult topics. “There have been numerous movies about slavery, about Jim Crow, about the Vietnam War. There have even been movies about America’s inaction to the genocide in Rwanda, a story whose national footprint is likely much smaller than that of the Tulsa massacre’s. Yet when it comes to the more than 30 race-related massacres that occurred in this country between 1917-1921, even before the one in Tulsa, there has only been on
  
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• Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life review – a blockbuster of diminishing returns

  30-05-2021 14:30
  
  Hepworth Wakefield
  In the biggest UK show of the artist’s work since her death in 1975, Hepworth’s sculptures are forced to compete with each other – and yet their creator’s sheer commitment shines throughIn the mid-1950s, Barbara Hepworth returned to bronze after a break of 30 years. Casting in metal not only meant that several editions of the same work could be made and sold; it was more durable than her carvings, and thus better suited, as she put it, to the “tra
  
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• Hermitage Museum proposal divides Barcelona authorities

  30-05-2021 12:47
  
  City council rejects scheme to open branch of Russian institution after port authority gave the go-aheadBarcelona’s frequently agonised debates over how to market itself to tourists have taken another twist, after the city council rejected a scheme to open a branch of St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in its port area.The port authority, which owns the site of the proposed museum, gave the green light but the council has objected on the grounds of location and fears the scheme will pr
  
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• An exquisite new exhibition brings home my long obsession with Iran | Rachel Cooke

  30-05-2021 08:00
  
  Not even the sight of Oliver Dowden could dim my excitement at the V&A’s latest triumphI know exactly when Iran first took hold of me. In 1979, I was at school in Jaffa, Israel, my classmates mostly Arab children and the offspring of assorted diplomats. One morning, we arrived for our first lesson to find some desks empty; the Iranian girls and boys, it seemed, were all elsewhere (relations between Israel and Iran were then, bizarre as this sounds now, fully functional). It was explain
  
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