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• British pop art pioneer Derek Boshier dies aged 87

  06-09-2024 18:41
  
  Portsmouth-born, working-class artist was known for collaborations with David Bowie and the ClashDerek Boshier, the working-class artist who was a key part of the pop art movement and a collaborator with the Clash and David Bowie, has died aged 87.The Portsmouth-born artist studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to 1962 alongside David Hockney and was profiled with Pauline Boty and Peter Blake in Ken Russell’s 1962 film about the pop art movement, Pop Goes the Easel. Conti
  
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• Simon Verity obituary

  06-09-2024 13:23
  Master sculptor and stone carver who created grottoes, public memorials and ecclesiastial work in the UK and the USA 1983 poster for the Victoria and Albert Museum shows a letter cutter with corduroy trousers, braces and a shapeless hat standing at the base of an inscription cut into the terracotta wall announcing in flaming gilded capitals its opening as the Henry Cole Wing, now sadly obscured by the new entrance paving. The artist appearing in the photograph was Simon Verity, who has died aged
  
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• Monuments to motherhood, cinematic dreams and a ‘wild beast’ – the week in art

  06-09-2024 13:00
  
  Hannah Perry takes a spectacular approach, John Stezaker offers reality-bending works and classicist André Derain designs for theatre – all in your weekly dispatchHannah Perry: Manual LabourA spectacular multimedia approach goes with introspective themes as Perry explores motherhood, class and gender.• Baltic, Gateshead, until 16 March Continue reading...
  
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• Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100

  06-09-2024 11:22
  
  Centre Pompidou, Paris
  From Ernst to Dalí, from Maar to De Chirico, this is a dazzling riot of creativity, celebrating the artistic potential of the unconscious – and shoesPoignancy is not a word we associate with surrealism, but you feel it when you walk down a corridor of blown-up photobooth pictures and enter the Pompidou’s blockbuster marking the movement’s 100th birthday. Everybody was so young when the first surrealist manifesto was published in October 1924: was i
  
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• Today’s AJ Highlights

  06-09-2024 01:27 via artsjournal.com
  Good morning. Here’s your daily AJ newsletter. It didn’t make our top five list, but I was particularly intrigued by the story of scientists tracking eye movements while participants were watching movies to figure out how people experience stories. Turns out there are big differences from one person to the next.What DeSantis Arts Funding cuts in Florida are Doing
  Governor Ron DeSantis’s arts funding cuts are hitting education hard, forcing over 600 organizations to slash progr
  
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