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• Jacob’s Pillow Rebuilds And Recreates

  30-06-2022 23:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Ted Shawn Theater is now open again for business, half of its exterior wood weathered and historical-looking, the other half clean and new. (The second theater has not yet been rebuilt.) – The New York Times
  
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• Bones, bowels and body-snatchers – Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life review

  30-06-2022 16:37
  
  National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
  William Burke’s skeleton looms over this gripping exhibition showcasing the spooky relics of science’s thirst for anatomical knowledge – and the horrors this often unleashedWhat are tiny corpses, each nestled inside a little wooden coffin, doing in an exhibition about the art and science of anatomy? They are, after all, crudely carved artefacts without any pretensions to medical accuracy. But these exhibits are part of one of the most noto
  
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• ‘Even under war, we must live’: the Kyiv art scene determined to party

  30-06-2022 15:57
  
  Last weekend, On Time festival brought together Kyiv’s music, art and craft communities to celebrate creativity – and vent the trauma of the Russian invasionNestled in a peaceful green dell, hidden beneath a glowing canopy of deciduous woodland, the morning sun shines over the old river port of Kyiv. Shafts of light pour into the courtyard of a bright-red, Soviet-era ribbon factory being artfully repurposed during a time of war.For over a decade the 19th-century factory buildings on
  
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• Wish you were here: popular British postcards – in pictures

  30-06-2022 15:14
  
  We asked our favourite day-trip destinations to send us the most popular postcard from their gift shop. Here are our souvenirs Continue reading...
  
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• Dredd zone: the anarchic world of comic-book artist Steve Dillon

  30-06-2022 15:00
  
  His groundbreaking work on such seminal characters as Judge Dredd, Preacher and Punisher is being celebrated with a posthumous show of his remarkable legacyThere are few artists who exemplify the anarchic, irreverent and anti-authoritarian British take on the comic book the way Steve Dillon does. Born in London and raised in Luton, Dillon died in New York in 2016, at the age of 54, following complications arising from a ruptured appendix. What remans is a remarkable body of work that includes th
  
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• Sam Gilliam obituary

  30-06-2022 13:15
  
  Abstract artist whose ‘draped’ canvases hover between painting and sculptureOne day in 1968, Sam Gilliam was leaning out of his studio window in Washington DC as a neighbour hung her washing. The painter, who has died aged 88, was bewitched by how the damp material sagged under its own weight, and the clothes and sheets billowed from the clothesline in the wind. What if he could make the canvases of his abstract paintings do something similar?Gilliam was already beginning to make a n
  
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