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• Security Guards Curate Baltimore Museum Show

  13-07-2021 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was struck and moved by the extraordinarily personal, cogent arguments that each officer made for their selection, which was so different from the intellectual and filtered approach that a trained curator would take.” – The Art NewspaperThe Art Newspaper
  
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• A Music Critic Reconsiders The Star Spangled Banner As A Piece Of Music

  13-07-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  What if, after 90 years, we took a diagnostic check on this venerable musical document to see whether it still works as intended? – San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Alan Cox obituary

  13-07-2021 18:35
  
  My best friend’s father, Alan Cox, who has died aged 79, was a master printer who produced high quality lithographs for a countless number of artists, including John Hoyland, Howard Hodgkin, Stephen Buckley, Jim Dine, Ivor Abrahams and even David Bowie.From various small print works in east London, Alan forged a formidable reputation as an innovative printmaker, also working with Chloë Cheese, Prunella Clough and Eduardo Paolozzi. Continue reading...
  
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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp review – ‘Her paintings pop and quiver before your eyes’

  13-07-2021 17:40
  
  Tate Modern, London
  From painting to puppets, from embroidery to stained glass, from furniture to textiles, the full range of the Swiss modernist’s terrific work is recognised in this dynamic retrospectiveLittle rectangles hurry across the paper, arranging themselves into figures. Urgent and precise, they might fly apart at any moment. Coloured rectangles warp away from the horizontal and vertical, impelled by unseen forces. Dense strokes rush about the paper, looking for a form, while cir
  
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• James Leahy obituary

  13-07-2021 16:23
  
  My friend James Leahy, who has died aged 83, played a key role in the growth of film studies in the UK, and of independent film culture more widely. His work spanned screenwriting, acting, scholarly research and teaching – most notably as head of the film department at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, for a decade from 1971.Born in Heston, Middlesex, to Irish parents, James Leahy, who had served in the first world war, and his wife, Beryl (nee Bennett), James was educated at Merchant
  
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• Manchester shows support for Marcus Rashford: ‘It’s evolved into something special’

  13-07-2021 16:16
  
  Community comes together to back England footballer and oppose racism after mural was defacedFor Ed Wellard, “there was a kind of inevitability” to hearing that the mural of Marcus Rashford had been defaced after England’s Euro 2020 final defeat.Wellard is a co-founder of Withington Walls, a community street art project that commissions works of public art in the south Manchester suburb where the footballer spent his early years before the family moved to Wythenshawe. Continue
  
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• A love from beyond the grave – Kurt Tong on his ‘ghost marriage’ photographs

  13-07-2021 07:00
  
  His latest project, piecing together the story of a bereaved Hong Kong man who wed his dead fiancé, has won an award. The photogapher reveals how it began with the discovery of a trunk of keepsakesAt the centre of Kurt Tong’s elaborate visual narrative Dear Franklin, there is a doomed love story that is also a ghost story. It traces the intertwined lives of Franklin Lung, a man who rose from poor beginnings to become part of Hong Kong’s social elite in the 1940s, and a young w
  
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