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A cinema where George Harrison and John Lennon spent their teenage afternoons has been saved from demolition.
Supermarket chain Lidl wanted to knock down the Abbey Cinema in Wavertree, Liverpool to make way for a new store.
The cinema, which closed in 1979, housed a branch of the Co-op supermarket until that shut in 2020.
Historic England (HE) said following a local campaign, the rare survivor from the 1930s heyday of cinema had been given Grade II listed status.
HE listings advisor Sarah Charlesworth added that she hoped a sustainable new use could now be found for the building.
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Herald Tribune: November 1977 (1977, printed 2008). © 1977 Sarah Charlesworth. Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
“Fake news” will be a tempting aperture through which to approach “Off the Record,” a new group show at the Guggenheim that looks at the ways in which artists consider, critique, or otherwise manipulate “official” documents of history and state power.
It wouldn’t necessarily be wrong to take that tack. But it’s not what was on curator Ashley James’s mind as she organized the show her first since becoming the museum’s first full-time Black curator in 2019.
“I’m less interested in speaking to the specificities of our contemporary historical moment than in thinking about a certain position in relationship to history as such,” she tells Artnet News over the phone. She pauses as construction noises from the show’s installation clang behind her.