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• Diana Hope obituary

  05-02-2025 18:36
  
  My sister, Diana Hope, who has died of cancer aged 78, was a Scottish painter and teacher. She was an inspirational mentor to students and colleagues. As one said: “She saw something positive in everyone’s work – she was passionate about encouraging everyone at all levels.”Her own work explored the beauty and mystery of domestic objects, environments and landscapes, external and imagined. They often featured her collection of eccentric and revered artefacts, invested with
  
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• Configurations in Black: a stateless Rwandan refugee makes art out of his experience

  05-02-2025 18:31
  
  Serge Alain Nitegeka was forced out of his home as a result of genocide and now, awaiting citizenship, turns his displacement into art showing at a New York galleryArtist Serge Alain Nitegeka became a refugee of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 at age 11, when he began a years-long odyssey through multiple African nations, eventually arriving in South Africa, where he remains to this day. During his years in transit, Nitegeka began to create art – first while attending high school in Kenya, wh
  
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• A wedding in a desert full of war props: Gohar Dashti’s best photograph

  05-02-2025 16:22
  
  ‘This is a reproduction of a memory I have from my childhood during the Iran-Iraq war. I went to a wedding and could hear bombs and alarms going off’I grew up in Ahvaz, a city in Iran that’s close to the border with Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. I have a memory of going to a wedding party as a child and hearing bombs and alarms – I didn’t fully understand what was happening, or why the bride looked nervous, but there was a paradoxical feeling of still w
  
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• Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp

  05-02-2025 16:03
  
  Gallery, whose success its director says others have learned from, is now expected to reopen in spring 2027“We want to fling open the windows, let the light bounce in,” said the architect Stephanie Macdonald in a building that has been known for being the opposite.“You will get spectacular views of the Mersey,” said Helen Legg, the director of Tate Liverpool. “It is going to be magical for people.” Continue reading...
  
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• “Trump”-l’Oeil & “Entrumpy”: Museums’ Re-envisioned Missions Under a Capricious Ruler

  05-02-2025 03:08 via artsjournal.com
  Call it entrumpy—a “gradual decline into disorder” (riffing on “entropy”), attributable to the unpredictability of our unprecedented President.
  Exploiting his
  
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• Arizona Opera seeks General Director

  05-02-2025 03:05 via artsjournal.com
  Arizona Opera has reopened an international search and invites nominations and applications for the position of General Director, available July 1, 2025.Arizona Opera, founded in 1971, is a cornerstone of the arts and culture community in Arizona, serving both Phoenix and Tucson with a mission to connect and inspire its communities through artistically vibrant programs and productions that combine music, storytelling, and the human voice. Over the years, Arizona Opera has become known for its in
  
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