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@artisthopper Love it

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More millionaires preserving heritage properties in California and less of them tearing them down please. If only many of them thought like Benedikt Taschen does.

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‘Real art questions the existing order. Art is not about representing so-called beauty, but rather to question the existing judgment about everything in politics, in life, in personal relations’

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#RoyalHistory #BritishHistory #RoyalArt #ArtHistory #RoyalCollection

Image: PA

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I was working out of the Royal Observatory Quarter in Oxford today and had the chance to see the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in the flesh. It really is lovely. Hoping to pay a proper visit at some point.

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Now, in the fortieth anniversary since her own death, a number of these portraits are to be offered by @ChristiesInc over the next few months

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"Eugène Delacroix had already met you." Thus began Picasso's relationship with Jacqueline Roque, the woman called his 'final muse.'

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He would go on to paint 400 portraits of her, such was her captivating, yet unconventional beauty. They were only separated by his death in 1973.

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Reminder to those who apparently don't know: the Kennedy Center was financially robust, with many private donors, before this administration undermined it, chased out the National Symphony, Washington Opera and others. Trump has forced it into bankruptcy out of sheer vanity.

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‘I destroyed my old personality and created a new one’

The words of Marlow Moss, avant-garde pioneer, whose work is the subject of a commercial gallery show - Marlow Moss: Space, Movement & Light - at Ward Moretti, 12 Duke Street, St James’s. Open now until 30th Oct.

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#Hull #HullMaritimeMuseum #MaritimeMuseum #HullCulture #HullHistory

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Laura Cross of the Hull Daily Mail has reported that over 50,000 people walked through the doors of the Hull Maritime Museum in its first month of being reopened, following a £20.4 million refurbishment project.

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A testament to the importance of investing in regional arts organisations, and making local history the focus of ongoing cultural dialogues.

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#ParthenonMarbles #ElginMarbles #BritishMuseum #AndyBurnham #CultureAndPolitics

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham seems to have recanted on his position on the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles.

It seems now he’s in a position to potentially do something about it, he’s stated that it’s a ‘matter for the British Museum.’

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A far cry from his 2023 position ‘yes George Osborne should give (them) back.’

What does this tell us about the real value of culture when it stops being politically useful as a symbol and becomes an actual policy decision?