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• The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?

  14-09-2022 18:12
  Laing Gallery, Newcastle
  This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson PollockEadfrith, according to a 10th-century inscription, was a monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne on Northumbria’s Holy Island, who wrote out and illuminated the entire gospels singlehandedly, to create the exquisite book at the heart of this exhibition. He worked for 10 years around AD700, “for God and St Cuthbert [Lindisf
  
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• Poland to ask Russia to return paintings looted by Red Army in WW2

  14-09-2022 17:41
  Culture minister says ‘traces of hundreds of thousands of items lead to the Russian Federation’Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings from a Moscow museum that were looted by the Red Army during the second world war, the Polish culture minister has announced.Piotr Gliński said about 20 previous requests to Moscow for the return of thousands of other items stolen during the war had fallen on deaf ears. Those items included archives of the former Nazi death camp
  
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• ‘Home is like a magnet’: a small corner of north Wales … in New York – in pictures

  14-09-2022 08:00
  Ed Brydon’s photographs capture the descendants of Welsh settlers in New York and Vermont – and the strong national traditions they retain Continue reading...
  
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• Lowry’s Going to the Match expected to fetch £8m at auction

  14-09-2022 07:00
  Painting done in 1953 of crowds outside Burnden Park being sold to raise money for footballers’ charitable foundationThey stream towards the turnstiles, stick-like figures instantly familiar to anyone who has looked at a painting by LS Lowry.In the foreground, their coats and hats are distinct. In the background, beneath the tall chimneys of a long-gone heavy industry, the people are a blur. But all of them have a common purpose: going to the match. Continue reading...
  
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