Arts news

• After 40 Seasons, Watertown’s (MA) New Repertory Theatre Closes

  19-10-2023 23:29 via wbur.org
  
  In 2021, New Rep paused its operations due to financial losses incurred during the pandemic. It reopened nine months later on a smaller scale with a renewed focus on new work and diverse voices. – WBUR
  
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• The End Of The Emerson String Quartet

  19-10-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  And from its formation in 1976, the Emerson Quartet sounded pretty. It became famous for its rich vitality and easy power in a vast repertory that it recorded prolifically and toured tirelessly. – The New York Times
  
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• Silvio Berlusconi heirs weigh up fate of his mostly worthless art collection

  19-10-2023 18:17
  
  Italian former PM estimated to have spent €20m on artworks, often buying through TV auctionsThe heirs of Silvio Berlusconi inherited billions from his empire but now they are faced with a dilemma: what to do with his vast collection of mostly worthless artwork, including paintings of nude women and the Madonna, stored in a warehouse opposite his home near Milan.The former prime minister, who died in June at the age of 86, reportedly amassed the 25,000 works during the final years of his lif
  
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• Leeds art installation helps children grapple with fourth spatial dimension

  19-10-2023 17:24
  
  Sprawling work at Victorian house features 4D climbing frame and is part of city’s year of cultureIt is unlikely the children clambering over the world’s first 4D climbing frame had any idea they were helping to explore higher dimensional geometry, irregular polytopes or string theoretical physics – but they unquestionably had fun.“They loved it and my kids are coming tomorrow so I’m very excited,” said Gemma Anderson-Tempini, an artist, after road testing her
  
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• Not just St Ives: Redruth festival will shine light on vibrant Cornish arts scene

  19-10-2023 14:00
  
  First Flamm festival in old mining town this weekend will include ‘art rave’ and installations using local natural materialsIn the 18th and 19th centuries, copper mining turned Redruth into a wealthy, bustling hub.But in more recent times the Cornish town has suffered the trials and tribulations of post-industrial decline. Continue reading...
  
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• Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

  19-10-2023 11:00
  
  From Bosch’s crazed party to the homoerotic images Michelangelo smuggled into the Vatican, this was an age of taboo-busting. And, as our writer argues in a new book, it sparked its own culture warsHieronymus Bosch was a respectable citizen of a small Dutch city, a leading member of its Christian community, but in the central scene of his masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights, he imagines a crazed ecstatic party without taboos or guilt. Hundreds of naked people, “black and white
  
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• A radical piece of cake: feminist sculptural installation restaged at Tate Britain

  19-10-2023 07:00
  
  Bobby Baker’s An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976) will be recreated – this time with a vegan optionWhen Bobby Baker’s sculptural work An Edible Family in a Mobile Home was installed nearly 50 years ago, art lovers were invited to not only touch her work but eat it. Now, the seminal work by the intersectional feminist is coming back – except this time, there’s going to be a vegan option.From 8 November, Tate Britain will present a restaging of Baker’s radi
  
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• Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: ‘I’ve been pleased not to be married these last 20 years’

  19-10-2023 06:00
  
  Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks about her six decades in TV, her affair with Harold Pinter and why David Attenborough was a terrific boss
  Joan Bakewell opens her front door, leads me into her elegant, art-filled, double-height-ceilinged central London home, apologises for the mess, of which there is none, and starts talking about Rory Stewart, whose book is on the sofa. It would be great to be him, we both agree – floating above everything, commenting. She like
  
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