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• When Politicians Endorse Theatre

  05-04-2024 23:32 via thestage.co.uk
  Figures from the political world getting involved in theatre makes a certain amount of sense, since producers and politicians both have to raise money from their social and professional circles. – The Stage
  
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• Justin Davidson: Supertall Towers Have Turned Central Park Into A Canyon

  05-04-2024 23:01 via msn.com
  The result is a skyline that’s no longer just a backdrop or a distant view or a pleasantly hard-edged contrast with the soft green clouds of woodland. Instead, it’s a constant presence, looming inescapably over virtually every corner of the park. – New York Magazine
  
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• Psst Pisa! Any Tips To Stop The Lean?

  05-04-2024 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Bologna’s Garisenda town is in trouble. After sensors attached to the monument, which leans at a 3.6 degree angle, picked up “anomalous movements” last year, alarmed experts issued what one called an “engineering code red.” – The New York Times
  
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• Edinburgh International Book Festival Warns Of Cutbacks

  05-04-2024 22:01 via scotsman.com
  The new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival has warned Scotland is at risk of losing arts events “every other week” without more public funding for culture and revealed that she would have had to scale back its programme. – The Scotsman
  
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• Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly eight decades in a fast-evolving art scene

  05-04-2024 20:14
  
  Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new realityThe art world mutates faster than the human eye can take in. It resembles the fashion industry far more than it does, say, publishing or theatre or even Hollywood, which all seem gentle by comparison. It is not, then, such a great shock that the stately Marlborough Gallery, founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism, has decided to call it quits after 78 years.Marlborough comes fro
  
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• Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly 80 years in a fast-evolving art scene

  05-04-2024 20:14
  
  Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new realityThe art world mutates faster than the human eye can take in. It resembles the fashion industry far more than it does, say, publishing or theatre or even Hollywood, which all seem gentle by comparison. It is not, then, such a great shock that the stately Marlborough Gallery, founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism, has decided to call it quits after 78 years.Marlborough comes fro
  
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• Linda Tanner obituary

  05-04-2024 17:53
  
  My wife, Linda Tanner, who has died aged 84, was a figure in the art world of 1960s New York and later a patron of the arts in London. A trained art historian, she once declared, when visiting the Frick Gallery, “If that’s a Duccio, I’ll eat my hat!”. Two weeks later the painting was removed from display, and she kept her headgear.Linda was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Rhita Loveman and Harry Perlman, who was a fashion salesman. She won a scholarship to Vassar
  
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• Marlborough Gallery: ‘blue chip’ art institution to close after nearly 80 years

  05-04-2024 17:13
  
  Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shuttered ‘after long and careful consideration’The Marlborough Gallery is to close in June, shuttering locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid and bringing to an end one of the most influential “blue chip” galleries in the world.The decision to close after almost 80 years came “after long and careful consideration”, according to the board of trustees at the gallery, which was once on the bl
  
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• ‘A crazy can-do mentality’: what made New York’s Met one of the world’s mega museums?

  05-04-2024 14:53
  
  It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance Max Hollein is sitting in his airy fifth-floor office in New York. Through one window is a view of Central Park, through another the rolling roofscape of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which he has led for the past five and a half years. On his office walls are
  
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• Apology after Benjamin Zephaniah mural painted over in Birmingham

  05-04-2024 14:32
  
  Council contractor says sorry amid anger at removal of artwork of poet from an underpass in Hockley areaA council contractor has apologised after painting over a mural of the late poet and actor Benjamin Zephaniah in Birmingham.The artwork appeared on the wall of an underpass in Hockley in central Birmingham last month after Zephaniah’s death aged 65 in December. Continue reading...
  
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• Artists of the future, Ghanaian kings’ robes and a tiny moth – the week in art

  05-04-2024 13:00
  
  Amateur artists join the pros in Gateshead, Old Master pastiches go on show in London, and a bursary for young photographers is launched in memory of the Guardian’s Eamonn McCabe – all in your weekly dispatchJerwood Survey III
  Well-known artists have each nominated their favourite beginner for this glimpse of the future of art, featuring Philippa Brown, Alliyah Enyo, Paul Nataraj and more.
  • Southwark Park Galleries, London, 6 April to 23 June Continue reading...
  
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• Experience: I stole a Rodin sculpture from a museum

  05-04-2024 11:00
  
  I held it and nothing happened. So I just took it, put it in my bag and leftI was an art student in Santiago, Chile, when I was invited to the National Museum of Fine Arts for a private event in June 2005. I had some drinks and needed the bathroom, which was downstairs.On the way, I went into a very dark room – I couldn’t even see the palms of my hands. Then, unknowingly, I walked into Rodin’s Torso of Adele, a small sculpture that is just 11cm high and 37.5
  
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• Ron’s Place: Birkenhead flat of outsider art granted grade-II listing

  05-04-2024 06:01
  
  Victory for campaigners and conservators as elaborately decorated property is honoured with protected statusA ground-floor rented flat in Birkenhead which was crafted over a period of 30 years into an extraordinary palace of outsider art has been given Grade II-listed status.The flat in Wirral, known as Ron’s Place, is thought to be the UK’s only example of outsider art to be nationally listed. Continue reading...
  
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• Protest Against The “Biennialization” Of Venice

  05-04-2024 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “We turn a blind eye to the consequences of this extreme ‘biennialization’ of the city. Functions for citizens disappear and consequently citizens disappear. And the city disappears.” – Hyperallergic
  
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