The begin of 2020 was exciting for the Immersive van Gogh team: they’d joined with the Paris creators of Atelier des Lumières for a Toronto version of their eye-popping digital artwork encounter and, with an eye to a spring opening, began development in the industrial house that formerly housed the Toronto Star’s printing presses. Early ticket sales were promising. When the coronavirus pandemic strike, producers Corey Ross and Svetlana Dvoretsky watched as one particular cultural group after a different closed its doorways in mid-March and Toronto went into lockdown. As they commenced to look at regardless of whether they’d have to lay off the dozens of arts workers…
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Image caption Mark Wallinger mentioned from an early age he had the “stubborn notion” he was going to be an artist What must school be about? Not “turning out obedient financial models”, argues a person of the UK’s primary artists, Mark Wallinger. Wallinger, a Turner Prize winner whose function has appeared on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, is helping to provoke a lot more creativity and questioning in the classroom. Primary inventive figures are becoming artists-in-residence in schools, sharing their expertise in art, new music, producing and drama with students, in a plan backed by the Arts Council…