Museum artworks being damaged by staff and visitors – Daily Telegraph
Details released under Freedom of Information show that dozens of works in the National Gallery, the Tate Collection and the V&A, have been dented and scratched over the past five years. As well as clumsy visitors, culprits include removal men, staff
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Waldemar Januszczak’s Sculpture Diaries – Times Online
Okay, the Olympics have finished, but imagine for a moment they have not and you are in the arena, watching the final of the heavyweight championship of culture an almighty scrap involving two of the world s most notable art forms. In the red
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Times Art School: Leading artists reveal how they got started – Times Online
I drew boy stuff when I was a kid – I had notebooks full of plans for my imaginary world, maps and designs for aeroplanes and cars and houses. I think that making work is very much connected to how you are as a child. I didn’t see art as a career
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George Zarnecki: Former deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of – The Independent
George Zarnecki was a leading scholar of medieval art whose authority in the field of English Romanesque sculpture has remained unchallenged over half a century. In his role as deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of
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Conceptual art by Charles Fahlen, Victoria May – San Francisco Gate
Saturday, September 27, 2008 Fahlen works with readily available materials: wire and cable, wood, paint, cement, metal fittings from the hardware store. His pieces share a property common to much three-dimensional art, such as the sculpture of Eva
Source: www.sfgate.com

Community connections: Taste restaurants’ fare, hear jazz at – Detroit Free Press
Have some oysters from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday or choose from dozens of other types of fare at the 18th annual St. Ambrose Oysterfest in Grosse Pointe Park. Proceeds from the $25 tickets fund programs of the Catholic church on the border of Grosse Pointe
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