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Well-Known UK TV Actor Comes Up With Scheme To Save Small Theatre

07-11-2024 21:15 via bbc.com

Funds would be raised by selling tickets to the performances of the winning entries, with the theatre’s president Suranne Jones giving an on-stage critique afterwards. “It will combine a search for community talent with being a money-maker,” she said. – BBC

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Legacies: new exhibition aims to expand ideas of Asian American art

07-11-2024 11:03

With more than 100 works, a new look into New York City’s Asian American art movements reveals a wide variety of styles, themes and viewpointsIt may be widely used now but the term “Asian American” is only a few decades old, being coined in 1968 by UC Berkeley activists Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka, as they sought an umbrella identity for their student organization, eventually hitting on the Asian American Political Alliance. The term caught on in part because it replaced the term

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Ashmolean Museum raises £4.8m to keep rare Fra Angelico work in UK

07-11-2024 09:40

The Crucifixion, painted in 1420s, was due to be sold to overseas buyer before deferral granted in JanuaryThe Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised £4.48m to prevent a rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the country after two centuries.Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion was going to be sold to an overseas buyer last year, but due to the work’s value and importance to the UK, the culture secretary granted a deferral of nine months in January to keep the painting in the UK

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Ashmolean Museum raises £4.48m to keep rare Fra Angelico work in UK

07-11-2024 09:40

The Crucifixion, painted in 1420s, was due to be sold to overseas buyer before deferral granted in JanuaryThe Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised £4.48m to prevent a rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the country after two centuries.Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion was going to be sold to an overseas buyer last year, but due to the work’s value and importance to the UK, the culture secretary granted a deferral of nine months in January to keep the painting in the UK

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Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped ‘banana’ artwork estimated to fetch up to US$1.5m at New York auction

07-11-2024 07:10

The viral artwork, involving a banana stuck to a wall, is once again in the spotlight, as Sotheby’s prepares to auction it for an eye-watering sumItalian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious installation involving a banana duct-taped to a wall is once again putting the slippery value of art in the spotlight.This month, international auction house Sotheby’s will put one of the artwork’s three editions up for sale in New York, with an estimated price of between US$1m and US

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