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• Fifteen People Were Injured In A Tram Crash At California’s Universal Studios

  21-04-2024 22:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The injuries were minor, but this isn’t great. “Universal Studios tour is one of the theme park’s most popular attractions, taking riders on a one-hour backlot tour to see behind the scenes where some of Hollywood’s most memorable films and television shows were filmed.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘George’s machines’: museum devoted to George Wyllie opens on the Clyde

  21-04-2024 16:28
  
  The Wyllieum will showcase work of ‘social sculptor’ who used humour to make serious criticisms of climate crisis and capitalismHe was the artist who sailed a paper boat past New York, set a straw locomotive on fire over the Clyde, and inserted a question mark into the word sculpture.George Wyllie, a prolific, self-taught “social sculptor” who worked with steel, stone, wood and paper, used humour to make deeply serious criticisms of the climate crisis, capitalism and Brit
  
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• Does mysterious painting prove blue denim was around 200 years before Levi’s?

  21-04-2024 16:00
  
  Woman Begging With Two Children, by an unknown artist, shows what appears to be a denim skirt in 17th-century ItalyThe origin of the world’s most enduringly popular fabric is in ­dispute, as a new exhibition spotlights a claim that firmly links denim with 17th-­century Italy and takes its history back 200 years.Blue denim, that all-American ­symbol of informality and a life lived on the open range, is already also contentiously attributed to ­southern France, while mod
  
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• ‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works

  21-04-2024 14:00
  
  Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interviewThe granddaughter of Augustus John, Britain’s most famous and successful artist of the early 20th century, has delivered a damning critique of his later works. Rebecca John, the leading authority on the artist, says in her first interview for two decades that “most should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgme
  
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• Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

  21-04-2024 10:00
  
  There’s less glitz and glamour, more a mood of solemnity and concern at the 60th edition of the Biennale, with revelatory work from Nigeria, Bulgaria and the global south living up to the festival’s provocative subtitle, Foreigners Everywhere…Armed soldiers guard the Israeli pavilion, stamping out their cigarettes in the pale Venetian dust. The doors are locked. The artist probably had no choice but to close her installation, given the unending atrocities. A notice in the wind
  
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• Kamilaroi Bigambul artist Archie Moore wins Gold Lion award at Venice Biennale

  21-04-2024 03:29
  
  Visual artist Archie Moore has been awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale 2024 for his exhibition kith and kin, becoming the first Australian to receive the top honour. Moore brought the Australia Pavilion to life with a genealogical chart informed by 65,000 years of history. With kith and kin, Moore highlights our shared ancestry and humanity. Artwork commemorating Indigenous Australian history triumphs in Venice‘Very totemic and very Aboriginal&rs
  
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