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• Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings review – vital, intimate, exceptionally intense

  31-03-2024 10:00
  
  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  So fragile that they are rarely seen in public, 120 of Flemish art’s finest drawings show you the minds and hands of the artists at work – chief among them the surprisingly dark and mysterious RubensMist descends at dusk along the path through a forest. Pale water, motionless beneath a footbridge, holds the last of the light. Pollarded willows raise their amputated arms, as if in warning, while slender elms lead invitingly into the distance. It is a scene of
  
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• DIY spaces of remembrance: Artist’s tribute to Bulgaria’s gulag prisoners

  31-03-2024 09:00
  
  Installation aiming to ‘un-silence’ former inmates by recreating interior of their homes to go on display at Venice BiennaleWhen Petko Ogoyski was released from communist Bulgaria’s gulag in 1953, he built a six-storey memorial tower in his home village of Chepintsi. Enraged by the lack of state recognition for the suffering he and thousands of others had endured, Ogoyski – who had been imprisoned for writing poems comparing Soviet rulers to Satan – filled it with a
  
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