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National Trust launches HistoryScapes storytelling app to offer ‘time travel experience’ through voices from the past
Three National Trust properties, in partnership with theUniversity of Exeter, will feature in HistoryScapes, an immersive new that brings their estates’ histories to life through the eyes of ordinary people: a carpenter, a mill worker and a broom maker.
HistoryScapes is a free app that takes users on GPS-triggered trails at National Trust properties to connect people to landscape heritage. Each trail is led by a historical figure and, inspired by research into them, offers a ‘living history’ format to give visitors the sense of having one foot in the past, the other in the present.
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Brit artist Lincoln Townley launches new collection called Anti-Frieze – an attack on corporate art exhibitions
BRIT artist Lincoln Townley has launched a new collection of works called Anti-Frieze motivating artists to market their own works.
The new campaign is an attack on the cosy world of exclusive art exhibitions and launches on the day of UK’s biggest art exhibition – Frieze London.
Townley, one of the UK’s leading and most successful figurative artists has launched the attack on Frieze London, the annual contemporary art fair which opens today (Wednesday).
Townley, who has just celebrated ten years of his successful Bankers Collection, has made a name for himself for his stance against galleries and the extraordinary commissions they take from artists.
Frieze art fair’s big tent in Regent’s Park should at least keep attendees dry as the art world descends on London this week for the annual event, which takes place during one of the wettest autumns on record. But outside the marquee, London’s art world is facing severe headwinds.
Ahead of the 21st edition of the fair, which has now expanded to four cities around the world and brings week-long celebrations as well as sales, there has been a sense of doom and gloom about the state of the capital’s art market over the last 12 months.
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Fire breaks out at London’s Somerset House, home to priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne
LONDON (AP) — Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were unharmed Saturday after firefighters worked to douse a blaze that broke out in the roof of Somerset House, a large central London arts venue, officials said.
Heavy smoke and flames seen coming from the top of the historic building around noon had been knocked down by firefighters who poured water on it from buckets on ladder trucks.
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