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Morag Myerscough transforms Coventry High Street with light and colour
Endless Ribbon by Morag Myerscough. Photo: Gareth Gardner.
COVENTRY
.- Artist Morag Myerscough has been working with Coventry City Council and Creative Giants to breathe new life into one of its central public spaces as part of a major creative regeneration programme in advance of the City Centre South scheme. With Coventry hailed City of Culture for 2021, Myerscough has installed her vibrant artwork Endless Ribbon Connecting Us in the canopy of Hertford Street. Transforming the space with the bold simplicity of light and colour, Myerscoughs dramatic installation works in symbiosis with the existing architecture.
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A life-size recreation of Bedroom in Arles, part of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at Skylight on Vesey Street in New York, June 5, 2021. Two immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist. Sam Youkilis/The New York Times.
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.- In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In one of the cavernous chambers of the ornate Musée dOrsay was the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (Starry Night Over the Rhône, Bedroom in Arles, The Church at Auvers, a number of his self-portraits) set against a brazen sapphire background rather than the usual chaste white museum walls. Ive had a poster of Starry Night, gifted to me by a college friend, since my undergraduate dorm days. It hangs framed in my bedroom today. At Musée dOr
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