Arts news

• National Gallery to buy Thomas Lawrence’s ‘Red Boy’ for £9.3m

  22-07-2021 16:42
  
  Sentimental toffee-tin favourite was first painting on a UK postage stamp but has divided opinion since 1825To some it is the epitome of ghastly chocolate-box sentimentality, described by Wordsworth as “a wretched histrionic thing”. To others it is a dazzling tour de force, praised by one critic as showing “the sparkling intelligence of youth”.Members of the public will soon be able to join the debate as the National Gallery on Thursday announced it was buying the work in
  
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• Rocket from the crypt! Phyllida Barlow on her Highgate cemetery sculpture

  22-07-2021 13:39
  
  The sedate graveyard, full of classical colonnades, has been given an injection of colour and fun by art’s great late starter. She talks about her new installation – and using the pandemic to reflectAfter 18 months of lying low, Phyllida Barlow is at large again. The artist’s hangar-like studio on a south London industrial estate is a yawning void, while on the other side of city, and across the sea in Germany, and thousands of miles away in Japan, the works she conceived and c
  
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• Dance’s Role In African Culture

  22-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although “dance uses a progression of steps and movements to resonate with the speed and beat of a piece of music and coordinates the body in a cadenced manner, most African dances are segregated body movements that can be very hard to organize intellectually.” – Global Sister ReportGlobal Sister Report
  
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