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• National Gallery in London bans liquids after activists’ art attacks

  17-10-2024 17:11
  
  Only baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicines will be allowed with large bags also prohibited under new measuresThe National Gallery has announced a raft of increased security measures after protesters attacked paintings including Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, John Constable’s The Hay Wain and Diego Velázquez’s The Rokeby Venus.From Friday morning there will be a ban on bringing into the London gallery any liquids except for baby formula, expressed milk o
  
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• Alvin Ailey: new exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of a dance icon

  17-10-2024 10:02
  
  At the Whitney in New York, an expansive exhibition six years in the making looks back at the visionary artist and choreographerAlvin Ailey was a momentous figure in American dance. One of his most substantial and lasting achievements was to transform ideas of what a modern dance company could be, collapsing distinctions between diverse worlds like concert dance, jazz and Hollywood entertainment. He was also a transformational figure for the Black community: the dance institutions that he built
  
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• A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter

  17-10-2024 10:00
  
  The work of the late Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is brought to life by this idiosyncratically persuasive Mark Cousins filmA rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, born in Scotland in 1912 and a resident of St Ives, whose landscapes she represented with endless curiosity and passion; she died in
  
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