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Renowned architect joins calls to save Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn https://buff.ly/3EIz29s “As one of the only art ‘shrines’ to freedom in a world increasingly threatened with authoritarianism, it should be preserved as a warning against propaganda and conformity.”

Renowned architect joins calls to save Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn Daniel Libeskind attacks plans to sell off Cumbrian structure once owned by celebrated modern artist

Kurt Schwitters' last Merzbau: The Elterwater Merz Barn https://buff.ly/3AMuYDT The Merz barn building still stands much as Schwitters left it in 1948. Located in a remote woodland in the heart of the Langdale valley in Cumbria, NW England it serves as a symbolic connection and poignant memorial to the spirit and tenacity of the artist who worked there.

Kurt Schwitters' last Merzbau: The Elterwater Merz Barn The Merz Barn project is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of contemporary art, not only in this country but in the world-art context. It has taken great care and work to bring this to fruition. It speaks enormously well of Cumbria and of us as a nation, and will undoubtedly be a focu...

I do sometimes wonder whether anyone is currently working in the way that Kurt Schwitters did. https://buff.ly/3OFOs2R

The commitment to recycling discarded materials in his work set Schwitters apart from many of his contemporaries, and is at last appreciated

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) It wasn’t a promising start to a career. In 1917, Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), 30 years old, new...

Happy 18th Birthday Blipfoto https://buff.ly/3TqL39F A lot has happened in those 18 years, or 216 months, or 939 weeks, or 6574 days since Joe Tree uploaded his first post to an on-line diary where he chose just one photograph, taken on that day, to reflect on his daily experience. While it started as one person’s journal, it was soon drawing the attention of other people who also wanted to take part. We’re indebted to Joe that he not only came up with the idea, but also made it possible for other people to share their experiences through Blipfoto. Such a simple concept, elegantly transformed into a website that so many enjoy.

Happy 18th Birthday Blipfoto | BlipCentral So, Blipfoto has come of age.   We couldn’t miss out on celebrating this achievement and to give you a quick update on our call to arms...

‘Never forgotten’: New Aberfan disaster collection on display at St Fagans

'Never forgotten': New Aberfan disaster collection on display at St Fagans A new collection of objects telling the story of the Aberfan disaster is now on display in the ‘Wales is’ gallery at St Fagans National Museum of History. On 21 October, 1966, disaster struck the small mining village of Aberfan when a colliery slag tip slid down the side of a hill and engulfed a...

The Principle of health in Organic Farming https://buff.ly/3yUtPJN Organic Agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human and planet as one and indivisible. This principle points out that the health of individuals and communities cannot be separated from the health of ecosystems - healthy soils produce healthy crops that foster the health of animals and people.

ORGANIC FARMING :: Principles in Organic Farming Organic Agriculture should sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human and planet as one and indivisible.

Cyngor Gwynedd to use Welsh language name only – as campaigners urge others to follow suit

Cyngor Gwynedd to use Welsh language name only - as campaigners urge others to follow suit Dale Spridgeon, local democracy reporter A Welsh council has been praised by Welsh language campaigners for stepping up its efforts to prioritise the Welsh language Gwynedd Council or ‘Cyngor Gwynedd’ as it will be now increasingly be known has recently adopted a reformed Welsh Language Policy. ...

Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art https://buff.ly/3TaWrpX Now, almost 80 years after her death, she is the outsider who has found recognition as a visionary artist, a pioneering star of abstract art.

Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development https://buff.ly/3CGSHG0 His use of found objects and rubbish to create collages and surprising imagery laid the foundations for both pop art and today’s thriving conceptual art scene.

Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development Followers of the German modernist give up hopes of preserving his working studio, the Merz Barn after funding cut

Picturing a Voice - Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone https://buff.ly/2qKZddV Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images

Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were th...

Cardiff is getting a new park to honour Wales’ first female professor https://buff.ly/3MxemVx
Born in 1863, Professor Millicent Mackenzie was a professor of education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University) from 1910-1915. She also campaigned for women’s rights, founding the Cardiff branch of the Suffragettes, and went on to become Wales’s first female parliamentary candidate, the only woman standing at the 1918 general election.

Cardiff is getting a new park to honour Wales' first female professor Wales’ first female professor is to be honoured with a new park in Cardiff. Born in 1863, Professor Millicent Mackenzie was a professor of education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University) from 1910-1915. She also campaigned for women’s rights, foundin...

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