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ART THROUGH THE WINDOW to lift covid gloom

The Great Big Art Exhibition will run from Thursday January 28 until April, and it seems likely that UK families could, to borrow a name employed by my local Touchstones Arts & Heritage Centre, when I was living in Rochdale, England, create their own ´People´s Gallery´ with walkways right around the UK.
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TIMPLE SAFE IN HANDS OF ALEXIS LEMES

He would like to see Timple theory and practice included in the curriculum at the Conservatoire on Lanzarote, offering initiation skills right the way through to professional skills.
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FRANKENSTEIN´S GRANNY: The Mary Wollstonecraft statue. By Michael Higgins

All biographers should aim to depict their subject as real life people and write a life that is true to what they wanted to be and what perhaps they actually became. The same should attain to graphic art and sculpture.
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MANRIQUE: MAGNIFICENT & MAGICAL

the world, could do with Manrique´s calm and vision and his oneness with nature at this time, in this hour of need.
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Looking for my FUNNY VALENTINE

The forever open and never answered question of can we and should we separate Art from the Artist, (as asked in our archived article Standing Between Art And The Artist 21st January 2021) is forever present although in the case of Chet Baker,
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AN ARROW THROUGH MY ART

In addition to their specialty in Spanish music they have the interpretation of the traditional repertoire for piano duo, so in their recitals it is common to find works by living composers, with whom they work directly, such as A. Guinovart, A. García Abril, C. Garriga, R. Ashkenar, C. Díaz Pestano, M. Bonino, etc.

UNDILUTED INSPIRATION. Johnny Nash

The I Can See Clearly Now album includes four original Marley compositions published by JAD: Guava Jelly, Comma Comma, You Poured Sugar On Me and the follow-up hit Stir It Up. A third hit single taken from the album was There Are More Questions Than Answers.
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FRIENDS dancing down the roads of the nation

there are now over forty albums by these artists alone that, figuratively at least, have ´as first heard from Pete Benbow´ stamped on their covers.
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WHOLE NEW MEANINGS of ´Presidential.´

We are not tasked to select the ironic bits over the sincere bits or vice versa because all of those things are overlaid and interwoven.
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STANDING BETWEEN ART AND ARTIST

We make a mistake when we assume that the artist is forever linked to their art. It’s not a question of should we separate them but instead ask why do we continue to insist they were ever one thing to begin with? Doing so has led to some incredibly worrisome phenomena.