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museums of the year 2008

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:11:32 -0700

Ten museums - from Orkney to Exeter - have been longlisted for this year's £100,000 Art Fund prize for museums and galleries. See the contenders here.
-Maev Kennedy visits three of the contenders

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inside the american scene

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:30:09 -0700

American

A new exhibition featuring work by Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock recently opened at the British Museum. Catch a preview in the Guardian's gallery.

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the war that time forgot

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:25:23 -0700

Child

An exhibition of photographs has opened at the Rivington Place gallery documenting the Bangladesh war of independence

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all change

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:18:29 -0700

Penny

Royal Mint reveals the first new coin designs for 40 years, dreamt up by a 26-year-old trainee graphic designer. See the designs here.
-Mint unveils new coin designs

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like servants below stairs, we all have tales of naipaul's rudeness

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:31:42 -0700

Naipaul

from the Guardian:
He has his knighthood and his Nobel and only in flashes does he write as he used to. The next few days may be his last big week. The biography is published on Monday and on Thursday he has a 90-minute documentary on BBC4. They are well worth reading and watching, but having done both I feel no need to know any more. "Never meet a famous author if you like their work" is not a bad maxim. I am glad to have met him, but reading him is the worthwhile thing to do. Be grateful, if you must, remember his shuddersome life, that so much selfishness has given us such great books.

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prize selection

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:01:02 -0700

Cantor

Highlights from Britain's biggest international art award, Artes Mundi, at the National Museum, Cardiff.
-Adrian Searle reviews Artes Mundi

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whitney highlights

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:28:23 -0700

Sigal

See a selection of artworks from this year's Whitney Biennial, on at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, until June 2008.

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pavilions past and present

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:36:39 -0700

Gehry

Frank Gehry will design the Serpentine Gallery's ninth summer pavilion. Take a look at some of the past projects.
-Steve Rose on Gehry's pavilion

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no such thing as society

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:25:47 -0700

Meadows

In 1987, Margaret Thatcher declared: "There's no such thing as society." Now, an exhibition of photography explores life in Britain in the 20-year period leading up to that speech.
-Tories, turmoil and tank tops

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arthur c clarke, writer and futurist, dies at 90

nobody@vox.com(matokie) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:00:51 -0700

Clarke

from the Guardian:
But although his dreams of intergalactic space travel and colonisation of nearby planets were never realised in his lifetime, Clarke's predictions of a host of technological breakthroughs were uncannily accurate.

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