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Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, as he makes the final adjustments to the hang ...

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Investing in Teignbridge art and heritage has lasting benefits

Investing in Teignbridge art and heritage has lasting benefits

Aren’t we lucky to have such a brilliant resource as the Teign Heritage Centre? It’s a beautiful building in Teignmouth, sort of “art deco-ish”! I visited last week, inspired by a talk given by Senior Archivist, Lin Watson.

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Obituary: Adam Reynolds

Sculptor with muscular dystrophy who brought a special insight to the arts.

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Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children

Arts Council England chair seeks proposals to ensure pupils across UK get ‘opportunities currently only available in the best schools’

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“Building a New Commonwealth: Experience and engagement in the 21st century museum" Keynote Address by Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art-Gwangju Biennale Forum: Epanding Experiences in Art

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London’s Abuzz as True Hollywood Icon Returns to the West End Stage

When any new play opens in London, there’s a discernible frisson of excitement among the capital’s arts community. The level of excitement is generally on a par with the level of celebrity that is due to appear, which is why Photograph 51 is likely to generate a great deal of interest. The play itself sounds fascinating in its own right, but when you realise Nicole Kidman is to star you know it could be very special indeed.

The Hawaii-born Australian actress is one of the hottest properties in the movie world thanks to celebrated appearances in major movies such as Eyes Wide Shut, Days of Thunder, The Hours and Moulin Rouge!, so it’s fair to assume that when Ms Kidman puts her name to a theatre project it will almost certainly involve a prestigious role.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/article4499559.ece

Her first West End show for 17 years - she last appeared here in The Blue Room - tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, a pioneering chemist who paved the way for the discovery of DNA.  She worked at the famous Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l’Etat in Paris and at King’s College in London.  Her hugely important work has only recently received the credit that it deserves, in part because female researchers struggled for recognition at the time in a male-dominated industry.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/Cultural-Crossroads/2012/11/abu-dhabi-art-kicking-off.html

Nicole Kidman is known for carrying out thorough research on her characters before playing a role, and so has probably gone to great lengths to find out more about Rosalind Franklin. Playing a real-life character is nothing new for her, having appeared in movies as Virginia Woolf, Grace Kelly, Diane Arbus and Gertrude Bell. It’s an intriguing prospect for Kidman as The Blue Room was her last stage appearance anywhere in the world, not just in London, so if you’re in the mood to savour a return to the boards of one of the world’s greatest living actresses, you won’t have to travel too far.

Photograph 51 is set to run from early September until late November, and tickets are likely to be hot property and very much in demand. Kidman’s name is pure box office (as they say in Hollywood) and her return to London has already generated high levels of interest. The Noël Coward Theatre in St Martin’s Lane provides the venue for what may turn out to be one of the highlights of the 2015 theatre goers calendar.

http://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/

All The World Is A Stage

The fact that London is able to draw major stars such as Nicole Kidman is testament to the standing that the city has in world of the arts.  Whether you want to experience world class theatre or immerse yourself in the huge range of exhibitions the capital has to offer, there are few places able to match the depth and scope that the city has to offer.  Being able to appreciate such artistic diversity is due in large part to the fact that London has developed a wide community of companies, government sponsored organisations and individual patrons who work hard to ensure commercial success underpins the work of artists, galleries and theatres.  These include individuals such as Jon Snow, Yassmin Ghandehari, Sasan Ghandehari , Peter Simon and Sir Nicholas Serota.

http://www.artnews.com/top200/yassmin-and-sasan-ghandehari/

http://www.arts.ac.uk/alumni-and-friends/support-and-donate/ual-development-council/

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Tate Modern sets June opening for $400 million expansion

LONDON (AP) — Britain's most popular art gallery, Tate Modern, says it will open a new 10-story extension on June 17 after a revamp that cost 260 million pounds ($400 million). http://dlvr.it/CDj4W8