Matt Frei
The art of diplomacy
Matt Frei visits an exhibition of art normally confined to the offices and homes of British officials around the world with its curator the historian Simon Schama.
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LIVE BLOG: Turner Prize 2011 live on Channel 4
Turner Prize 2011 live on Channel 4 – add your voice 22:00: Scotland on Sunday art critic Moira Jeffrey, a friend of the winner’s, tells Channel 4 News: “It’s a tremendous result. Martin is one of these incredibly careful, steady artists. “The great story about Martin is the first time he tried to get into…
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Martin Boyce seals Turner Prize hat-trick for Glasgow
Martin Boyce becomes the third Glasgow artist in succession to triumph at the Turner Prize, as a friend tells Channel 4 News “the first time he tried to get into art school he failed.”
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Oxford’s treasures, from Magna Carta to the Titanic
The Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Titanic telegrams – Oxford’s Bodleian Library houses some of history’s most important objects. This week Channel 4 News explains why they mean so much.
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Unpaid internships: campaigners step up the fightback
Young graduates tell Channel 4 News they are ‘treated as slave labour’ – but an online fightback gathers strength, with campaigners warning they will go to court to get payment.
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How readable are this year’s Booker Prize books?
This year’s Booker Prize chair courted controversy when she revealed her panel was looking for “readable” books. We asked members of the Channel 4 newsroom what they thought of the shortlist.
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Grayson Perry curates at the British Museum
The cross-dressing artist Grayson Perry has curated a new exhibition at the British Museum – mixing his own work with the pick of their collection.
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Booker shortlist: Barnes in, Hollinghurst out
Julian Barnes is favourite to win this year’s Booker Prize after he was named as one of the six shortlisted authors. Alan Hollingshurst, also tipped as a possible winner, failed to make the cut.
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Dance nostalgia for the internet age
A new generation is discovering the sound and spirit of 1980s raves – but the law and the internet make it impossible to recreate that sense of being part of a privileged group.
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Was Shakespeare heroine based on Bard’s cousin?
A “tantalising” family link to Shakespeare’s tragic character Ophelia has been revealed by an academic study of accidental deaths in Tudor England.
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‘We’ve protected poetry funding’ – Arts Council
After Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy led protests against cuts to the Poetry Book Society, Antonia Byatt of Arts Council England writes that the Council has tried to protect spending on poetry.
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Carol Ann Duffy protests over Poetry Book Society cuts
The poet laureate says the decision to cut all public funding to the Poetry Book Society is disastrous. But are these traditional institutions still neccessary or is the art simply evolving?
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Tracey Emin’s shock art shifts ‘from sex to love’
In a new show which marks a new phase in a career which has often focused on the artist’s personal life, Tracey Emin talks to Channel 4 News about growing up, falling in love and voting Conservative.
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Fire in Babylon – what lessons for West Indies cricket now?
As a new film about the all-conquering West Indies cricketers of the 1980s premieres, fast bowler Colin Croft tells Channel 4 News that there is no leadership to create heroes in the Windies today.
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LIVE BLOG Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
In the Queen’s own words it was an “amazing” day: see how the wedding of the century unfolded via the Channel 4 News live blog, plus the Royal Wedding in 60 seconds.
