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Arts Newsletter
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This week, everyone is talking about the Warwick Commission report, which calls for a new approach to the future development of the UK arts sector; we announce secondment opportunities in Georgia, Ukraine
and Wider Europe
for UK arts professionals; the Creative Economy team's global innovation project ELEVATE kicks off in Japan on Monday; Culture24 invite arts organisations to sign up for their collaborative audience research project, Let's Get Real; and the Literature team announce their programme at this year's
London Book Fair, part of UK-Mexico 2015.
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Joining the growing debate and critical examination of digital art, the British Council commissioned a short film, produced by Dezeen, to ask: What is digital art? And why should we pay attention to it? Featuring interviews with
15 Folds founders Margot Bowman and Sean Frank, curator and writer Conrad Bodman, and artists Thomson & Craighead. Watch the film
and join the online conversation #digitalart.
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Wind & Foster director Jevan Chowdhury's film project, Moving Cities, captures international dancers in cities all over the world. The latest in this series of beautiful shorts, Moving Prague, documents the dynamic meeting of city life and artist, as 58 dancers respond to the capital of the Czech Republic.
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The British Council's weekly radio show keeps you up to date with the best of new British music. This week Goldierocks presents The Twilight Sad live in session, playing tracks from their new album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave, and Monkey Wrench are In The Mix.
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Opening today and running until 24 February, the 2015 International Fashion Showcase (IFS) brings together over 30 emerging designers from all corners of the globe in the largest public fashion exhibition of its kind. Earlier today, IFS programme manager, Niamh Tuft, ran a whistle-stop Twitter Tour of the expansive exhibition.
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Alongside an event looking at the history of Iranian literature, which took place earlier this week at the British Library as part of the UK-Iran Season of Culture, Iranian writer Nima Malek Mohamadi gives a rare insight into the country's contemporary literature scene, and explores how the political and social conditions in Iran have shaped its literary traditions.
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As Magnificent Obsessions opens at the Barbican in London, the exhibition's curator Lydia Yee walks us through some of the treasures on display and introduces some of the artists behind the obsessions. The exhibition, which presents personal collections from the studios of 14 international artists including Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, runs until 25 May.
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Following its closure for refurbishment, last weekend's long-anticipated re-opening of Whitworth Gallery
saw the art world elite, alongside thousands of art enthusiasts, descend on the Manchester University site for the first time since autumn 2013. Inaugural highlights include Cornelia Parker’s 1991 Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View and Cai Guo-Qiang’s Unmanned Nature.
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