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• Restoration of the Parthenon should be celebrated | Letter

  27-02-2022 18:21
  
  It is one of the wonders of antiquity and reunifying it would be an act of reverence, writes Alf DubsIt was with some surprise that I read the reunification of parts of one of the greatest works of classic antiquity described as a herald of “cultural cleansing” in a letter (16 February) on the question of the return of the Parthenon sculptures.The removal of 75 metres of the Parthenon’s frieze, 15 metopes and 17 pedimental figures from Athens represents at best an abuse of powe
  
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• Surrealism Beyond Borders; Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan – review

  27-02-2022 14:00
  
  Tate Modern; Royal Academy, London
  Incongruity is everywhere, the stuff of dreams – or living nightmares – in Tate Modern’s whirlwind tour of surrealism spanning 80 years and more than 150 artists. Elsewhere, Whistler’s Irish muse remains an enigmaTate Modern’s enormous and surprising Surrealism Beyond Borders is a round-the-world tour of what must be the 20th-century art’s most far-reaching movement. It has Austrian totem poles and Egyptian fetishes, painting
  
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• Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2022: Rhoda Koenig on Jean Dubuffet’s Brutal Beauty

  27-02-2022 09:00
  
  The shortlisted entrant celebrates the French artist’s provocative, high-spirited Barbican retrospective, with paintings that practically ‘jump off the wall’Read the rest of this year’s entriesRhoda Koenig has lived half her life in New York, half in London. She has reviewed books, art, and theatre for various publications and is the author of The New Devil’s DictionaryJean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was ahead of his time, though not, some may feel, in a good way. A promo
  
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