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• ‘He saw how architecture and sculpture could coexist’: why Greece fell in love with Henry Moore

  05-10-2024 22:15
  
  A new show in Athens tells how the Yorkshire sculptor’s sole visit kicked off a mutual adorationThrough the gargantuan windows of an art deco villa suffused with natural light on the slopes of central Athens, the monumental sculptures of Henry Moore stand like sentinels to a modern age. It is a setting of which the great 20th-century British sculptor would have undoubtedly approved.Against a backdrop of trees and the purist austerity of the white interiors of the Gagosian gallery, Moore&rs
  
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• Evergreen art: depictions of trees over the centuries – in pictures

  05-10-2024 18:00
  
  Dating back to rock art made 25,000 years ago in north-eastern Brazil, through to 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings, to high-definition photographs modified with artificial intelligence, artists have long turned to trees for inspiration. A new book brings together a wide array of work by artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Hilma af Klint and William Kentridge. “I am always amazed at how many ways trees can be depicted in art – paintings, sculptures, models, living art, phot
  
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• Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

  05-10-2024 17:11
  
  A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in NovemberClarissa Dalloway, the heroine of one of Virginia Woolf’s best-loved novels, is “always giving parties to cover the silence”. The story, Mrs Dalloway, closely follows a London society hostess as she prepares for an evening of sharing her hospitality while quietly battling a depressive illness. After Woolf’s tragic suicide in 1941, the novel’s theme acq
  
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• ‘A great work of feminist art’: how the Bloomsbury group’s Famous Women Dinner Service got a place at the table

  05-10-2024 17:00
  
  Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s 1932 collection of 50 hand-painted plates, left to languish for 80 years, forms the centrepiece of a new exhibitionIt’s a fantasy dinner party for the ages: Queen Victoria seated between Pocahontas and Cleopatra; Catherine the Great sharing a table with Helen of Troy. This was the vision behind the so-called Famous Women Dinner Service, a collection of hand-painted china plates, created in 1932 by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and soon to be displayed
  
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• Laia Pujol-Rovira shares strategies to impact students from underserved communities

  05-10-2024 16:38 via artsjournal.com
  Laia Pujol-Rovira, Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation and Community Impact at the Colburn School, shares their four-stage process of serving young people from underserved communities.
  
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• ‘There is a sense of safety here’: the artists keeping culture alive in Kharkiv

  05-10-2024 11:00
  
  War has created a ‘new era of collaboration’ among the Ukrainian city’s creatives, with artists, poets and curators working togetherPeople living in the frontline Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have been close enough to death to look it in the eye – and make some kind of peace with its proximity. These are the hardcore ones, equipped “with nerves of steel” according to Nataliia Ivanova, the director of the Yermilov Centre, the city’s contemporary art gallery.
  
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• ‘It makes me feel light, happy and free’: Justin Attah Mensah’s best phone picture

  05-10-2024 11:00
  
  The photographer and film-maker celebrates the beauty of brotherhood and male companionship‘Brotherhood and male affection are rarely seen in a culture typically painted as hyper-masculine by the west,” says Justin Attah Mensah, a film-maker and photographer from Accra, Ghana. “This image showcases the beauty in this companionship, and celebrates it.”Mensah had travelled to Kokrobite beach, about an hour from Accra, for this photoshoot. “In the foreground is a 
  
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• Marina Abramović: ‘Describe myself? Long hair, big nose, large ass’

  05-10-2024 10:30
  
  The performance artist on the pleasures of sex, chocolate and cashmere – and wishing she had more timeBorn in Belgrade, Marina Abramović, 77, studied as a painter. From 1976 to 1988, she collaborated with her partner, the artist Ulay, to perform works such as the naked doorway piece, Imponderabilia. Her installations include 2002’s The House With the Ocean View, where she lived in a gallery without speaking or eating for 12 days. Last year she became the first female artist to h
  
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• Today’s Highlights

  05-10-2024 08:33 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning: A While back the NEA asked several arts “practitioners” to write essays in response to the Endowment’s latest arts participation study which came out last year. We’ve featured a couple of them so far — National Book Foundation director Ruth Dickey’s musings on declines in reading — less than half of American adults report reading even one book last year, yet one billion books were sold. And arts consultant Peter Linett’s questions ab
  
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• Artistic Director – Theatre for a New Audience

  05-10-2024 08:09 via artsjournal.com
  The Artistic Director will lead the creation and implementation of TFANA’s artistic vision, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission and values. Reporting to the Board of Directors and collaborating with the newly established Executive Director, the Artistic Director will forge strong relationships with artists, donors, audiences, and community stakeholders. With deep experience and passion for both classical and contemporary work, they will provide strategic leadership in
  
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• Artistic Director – SpeakEasy Stage Boston

  05-10-2024 08:01 via artsjournal.com
  SpeakEasy Stage – Boston’s home for bold theatre – invites applications from collaborative and risk-taking artistic leaders to serve as its next Artistic Director – Apply by Nov 15!Since 1992, SpeakEasy Stage has produced vital, timely, and entertaining plays and musicals in Boston’s South End. Our shows spark conversations that continue long after audiences leave the theater. After 32 years, our Founding Artistic Director is stepping down to make room for new leade
  
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• From Joker: Folie à Deux to Francis Bacon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  05-10-2024 07:00
  Joaquin Phoenix’s supervillain returns with added Gaga, and one of Britain’s greatest modern artists exposes the brutal face of humanityJoker: Folie à Deux
  Out nowThe first Joker film was one of the best recent efforts to make a genuinely compelling piece of cinema out of comic-book source material. The second Joker film aims to keep fans of the first one on their toes by throwing Lady Gaga, as Harley Quinn, into the mix for a bit of jailhouse rock – this instalment bein
  
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