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• Grenville Davey obituary

  16-03-2022 18:47
  
  Turner prize-winning artist of the YBA generation who refused to play the fame gameWhen the sculptor Grenville Davey won the Turner prize in 1992 the Guardian described him as the “rank outsider”. The Wall Street Journal was even blunter in its headline: “Brit Art-Prize Fiasco: Grenville Who?” The media bewilderment was in part because Davey, who has died suddenly aged 60, beat the favourite, Damien Hirst, to the award.Nor did Davey make particularly good tabloid column i
  
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• National Gallery exhibition explores trauma through vandalised paintings

  16-03-2022 15:03
  
  Ali Cherri’s If you prick us, do we not bleed? looks at people’s emotional responses to artAn exhibition inspired by the vandalism of five paintings while they were being displayed has opened at the National Gallery, in an attempt to explore how trauma can manifest itself in people’s response to museum and gallery collections.If you prick us, do we not bleed? has been put together by the gallery’s artist in residence, Ali Cherri, appointed in 2021, who uncovered accounts
  
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• Arizona Museum of Natural History- Director

  16-03-2022 01:29 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationThe Arizona Museum of Natural History (AZMNH) is the premier natural history museum in Arizona, dedicated to inspiring wonder, respect, and understanding of the natural and cultural history of the Southwest. Founded in 1977 in the former Mesa City Hall, it is the only natural history museum in the Greater Phoenix area. Originally known as the Mesa Southwest Museum, the museum had a modest number of Arizona artifacts in a historical building designed by Lester and Mahoney in 1937 and
  
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