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• Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In review – an intriguing double act

  24-03-2024 10:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  The Victorian portraiture pioneer and the mysterious 70s American photographer who died at 22 both surprise in a quietly subversive exploration of their contrasting processesJust over 100 years separates the creative lives of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman, one a Victorian pioneer of imaginative photographic portraiture, the other a 20th-century American artist who made performative and mysteriously elusive self-portraits. Though neither received t
  
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• ‘We’re barely hanging on’: England’s cultural jewels fall into the red

  24-03-2024 08:00
  
  New arts lobby group says plight that hits even top bodies such as Royal Shakespeare Company makes entire country poorerThe vast majority of England’s biggest subsidised cultural institutions are now operating at a loss, including many internationally renowned venues and arts brands. Financial data gathered for a new national lobbying group called Culture Makes …, started by the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation (CPF), revealed the severe plight of even theatres, galleries and museum
  
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