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• Celebrating the NHS and key workers – in sculpture

  06-09-2021 19:22
  
  Gratitude is a public art installation by Wild in Art that pays tribute to the courage and dedication of NHS staff and key workers during the pandemic. The exhibition, which is free to visit and has been curated in partnership with the designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, consists of 51 sculptures by professional artists and designers from across the UK.Tickets can be booked to visit Gratitude at St Peter’s Square Manchester (3-12 September), before it moves on to Edinburgh (17-26 September) and L
  
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• Snakes, spirits and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: São Paulo Biennial makes defiant stand in Brazil’s culture wars

  06-09-2021 18:14
  
  As the Bolsonaro government stokes divisions, the art festival offers a pointedly diverse and inclusive programme, including sculptures by the late dub reggae legendWhen fire devastated the National Museum in Brazil in 2018, one of the few objects to be found intact among the smouldering ruins was the St Luisa meteorite. While the Rio de Janeiro museum is still being rebuilt, the black rock, around a metre in length, is the star exhibit of the São Paulo Biennial, which opened at the weeke
  
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• I’m back again!

  06-09-2021 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is my first posting in two weeks, and it’s nice to be back. No, I didn’t die, nor was I even slightly injured, but since it’s the first time in many years that I’ve taken so much time off from this blog, and since my last posting was preceded by another prolonged hiatus—it strikes me that I should explain my absence.Part of the problem was that I was swamped with work, including an extended stretch of theater-related travel that kept me more or less continuousl
  
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• Just because: Aaron Copland’s Quiet City

  06-09-2021 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steven Schick and the La Jolla Symphony perform Aaron Copland’s Quiet City, with Stephanie Richards on trumpet and Carol Rothrock on oboe:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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