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• For ‘unrecognised black women’: statue of Henrietta Lacks unveiled in Bristol

  04-10-2021 18:35
  
  Lacks, whose cells were used in multiple medical advances, is honoured by the city’s universityThere were tears of joy and pride as the first statue of a black woman created by a black woman for a public space in the UK was unveiled in a sunlit garden at the University of Bristol.Three generations of of Henrietta Lacks’ family travelled from the US for the unveiling of the bronze statue of her, sculpted by the Bristol artist and campaigner Helen Wilson-Roe. Continue reading...
  
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• NFTs drive sales of contemporary art to record £2.7bn

  04-10-2021 14:08
  
  Non-fungible tokens boost post-pandemic recovery as Hong Kong emerges to challenge New YorkContemporary art auctions rebounded to an all-time high of $2.7bn over the past year, boosted by online sales and the arrival of digital art in the form of “NFTs”, according to an annual report by Artprice.Having seen sales collapse by a third in the previous year because of the initial crisis caused by the pandemic, sales soared between June 2020 and June 2021 as auctioneers quickly adopted a
  
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• Cultural prescription: film, books, plays and more to help you embrace autumn

  04-10-2021 11:00
  
  From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to When Harry Met Sally, Guardian critics suggest comforting culture for the changing seasonsWhat better way of seeing out the high season than a staging of Shakespeare’s bacchanalia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Raging with the sudden fevers, loves and infatuations associated with sun stroke, it is set amid lush Athenian forest splendour which, in a good production, leaves you smelling the fauna and flora. A Covid-secure prescription for this year&
  
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• Living colour: how Mark Rothko found light in his dark final years

  04-10-2021 10:00
  
  A new exhibition of the American master’s lesser-known paintings shows his changing approach to the canvas – and his attitude to death, says his sonMark Rothko’s final decade is typically thought of as a journey into darkness, when the American abstract expressionist’s furnace-bright hues of the 1950s all but vanished. His canvases, huge as stage curtains, grew doomy with maroons, browns and blacks. The great smouldering Seagram murals, commissioned for a corporate dining
  
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• Liquid liberation: artist Torkwase Dyson on her aquatic obsession

  04-10-2021 09:00
  
  From the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic to the drowning of a teenager at Lake Michigan, the artist explores how water connects to Black history – and now she’s looking inside the human bodyTorkwase Dyson likes to be near water. “I look for it,” she says, “whether it’s a river, a lake or the ocean. I prefer to be in an environment that has those things.” The Brooklyn-based artist has long been concerned with how such watery spaces connect to
  
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• Celebrating Cumbria’s west coast – in pictures

  04-10-2021 08:00
  
  Internationally renowned photographer Vanessa Winship named emerging artist Phoebe Kiely as her pick of new talent, and the West Coast Photo Festival will bring them together for the first time Continue reading...
  
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• Audience Development Manager

  04-10-2021 05:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to inspire the intellect, touch the heart, elevate the soul, and connect us all with our shared humanity through transformative experiences with Baroque and Classical music.Diversity is therefore fundamental to our mission; it is a core value at the Handel + Haydn Society. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all employees. We believe every member on our team enriches our div
  
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• On the State of the Arts Today: An Emergency

  04-10-2021 03:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nicolas Bejarano Isaza is a young trumpeter, born in Colombia, living in LA. He specializes in new
  
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