Arts news

• ‘It’s magical – but it’s also got the Bibby Stockholm’: arts festival showcases Portland, Dorset

  03-09-2023 14:21
  
  Organisers hope event will help community come to terms with summer of controversy over presence of barge for asylum seekersDorset’s Isle of Portland found itself at the centre of attention for a controversial reason after the docking of the Bibby Stockholm, the hulking barge towed in to house hundreds of people seeking asylum in Britain.But now a “weird and wonderful” arts festival called b-side involving scores of artists, international and local, is taking place and should s
  
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• Joseph Wright of Derby review – a master of light and shadow

  03-09-2023 14:00
  
  Derby Museum and Art Gallery
  Derby’s unrivalled collection of Joseph Wright paintings has just got bigger, with the unveiling of two works never seen in the city before – further testament to the 18th-century artist’s extraordinary versatility, humour and skillThere is a painting so great, and so strange, in the city of Derby as to be worth the visit to the gallery alone. It shows a group of spectators gathered in deep darkness round a clockwork model of the solar system. Their
  
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