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• Bundanon art museum: Arthur Boyd’s estate reimagined in architectural feat

  16-02-2022 17:30
  
  Artist’s home and $40m collection almost destroyed by bushfire. Now a new sustainable gallery has risen, hoping to turn Shoalhaven into an art destinationGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFew Australians would realise just how close the recent bushfires came to destroying one of the most valuable art collections in the country.During Australia’s devastating black summer of 2020, the flames came within 1km of Arthur Boyd’s historic place of res
  
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• Bundanon art museum: Arthur Boyd’s estate reimagined in an architectural feat

  16-02-2022 17:30
  
  The artist’s home and $40m collection were almost destroyed by bushfire. Now a new sustainable gallery has risen, hoping to turn Shoalhaven into an art destinationGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFew Australians would realise just how close the recent bushfires came to destroying one of the most valuable art collections in the country.During Australia’s devastating black summer of 2020, the flames came within 1km of Arthur Boyd’s historic pla
  
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• Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – the ‘old man’ who was always pushing art forward

  16-02-2022 16:43
  
  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  Camille Pissarro may be less famous than Monet, Renoir or Degas but his genius lay in always making you think, not feelCamille Pissarro isn’t worried if he looks past it with his big white beard. He doesn’t care if he appears weak. He looks straight back at you from his self-portrait at the start of this exhibition, over the top of his spectacles, aged and maybe myopic. He is staring in the mirror, seeing himself honestly, with a grey Paris street on view thr
  
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• Tate’s ‘unequivocally offensive’ mural to have new work alongside it

  16-02-2022 16:32
  
  Tate Britain commission will be ‘in dialogue’ with Rex Whistler’s 1927 mural and its racist imageryTate Britain has commissioned a new artwork to be exhibited alongside a mural containing racist imagery, after discussions with historians, artists, cultural advisers and civic representatives.The new installation will be “in dialogue” with the floor-to-ceiling mural by Rex Whistler in what was formerly a restaurant at the London gallery. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Brave people stepped up to the plate’: remembering the Black Panthers through art

  16-02-2022 16:02
  
  A new group exhibition adds a contemporary lens to the work of the Black Panther party in the era of Black Lives MatterSadie Barnette’s work honours her father’s time in the Black Panther party, a political organisation founded in the tumultuous 1960s that tried to combine socialism, Black nationalism and armed defence against police brutality.In particular, she takes as raw material a 500-page surveillance file on Rodney Barnette, compiled by J Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which descri
  
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• Geoff Roberts obituary

  16-02-2022 11:45
  
  My friend Geoff Roberts, who has died aged 92, made his living as a teacher but had a large hinterland beyond his work in the classroom, including as a part-time illustrator and writer.Much of Geoff’s creative output came after his early retirement from teaching in the early 1980s – a long and fruitful period in which he became a writer of short stories and poems, some of which were published in Reach Poetry magazine. Continue reading...
  
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• Dreamachine, the psychedelic contraption hoping to blow British minds

  16-02-2022 11:00
  
  Inspired by a device created by in the 1950s, the creators hope to bring free transcendental experiences to 100,000 Britons – and unite the country through communal hallucinationsOne day in 1958, Brion Gysin had a transcendental experience on the way to Marseille. The flickering of sunlight through avenues of trees along the roadside and the speed of the bus he was riding proved optimal, or so he thought, to put him in a hallucinatory dreamlike state.“An overwhelming flood of intense
  
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