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• Italy’s Surreal New Fellini Museum Reconfigures A Historic Downtown

  31-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum occupies two historic buildings, with a large piazza in between, effectively reconfiguring a significant part of Rimini’s downtown. – The New York Times
  
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• Douglas Abercrombie obituary

  31-08-2021 21:32
  
  My father, Douglas Abercrombie, who has died aged 87, was an abstract expressionist artist who exhibited at various shows throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s, including at the Fruitmarket gallery in Edinburgh and the André Emmerich gallery in New York.Although a Scot, he lived for much of his life in London, where he ran a weekend stall selling T-shirts to tourists in Piccadilly that generated enough income to allow him to concentrate on his painting during the week. Continue reading...
  
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• Queen of Denmark hired as set designer on new Netflix film

  31-08-2021 17:38
  
  Queen Margrethe II, the reigning Danish monarch, will add an adaptation of Karen Blixen’s fantasy novel Ehrengard to her two previous screen credits Queen Margrethe II, reigning monarch of Denmark, is to design the sets for a forthcoming Netflix film adapted from a novel by Karen Blixen, it has been announced.A romantic fantasy set in the fairytale kingdom of Babenhausen, Ehrengard will be directed by Bille August, the veteran Danish director of Pelle the Conqueror (which won both the Palm
  
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• ‘It’s not cutesy’: the art show co-curated by a five-year-old

  31-08-2021 16:41
  
  My Kid Could’ve Done That! invited 15 artists to create work alongside their children. From leaking breasts to hours in front of childrens’ TV, the results are admirably honestAt five years of age, Astrid might well be the youngest exhibition curator of all time.“I’m really looking forward to deciding where the art goes,” she says, demonstrating a natural instinct for her new role. “And I’ve really enjoyed working with Daddy too!”My Kid Could&rsquo
  
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• ‘It was shocking’: how did a Bob Ross documentary become so contentious?

  31-08-2021 16:24
  
  Netflix’s look at the life and legacy of the TV artist has caused conflict and a reawakened fight over his estateMaking a documentary about the TV artist Bob Ross should, in theory, have been a pleasant meander through the life of a beloved figure – a cross between America’s Mister Rogers and Britain’s Tony Hart.But when Joshua Rofé got to work as director, he plunged into a maze of ugly legal disputes, interviewees too scared to go on the record and bitter wrangli
  
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