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For better or worse, the visual arts haven’t featured large in Britain’s national mythologies of late. Yet, in September 2018, Theresa May launched what is now known as Festival UK 2022, proclaiming: ‘Just as millions of Britons celebrated their nation’s great achievements in 1951, we want to showcase what makes our country great today.’ This ‘Festival of Brexit’ was met with scorn, hilarity and anger among artistic communities – followed, last year, by infighting and accusations of hypocrisy as groups from Assemble to the White Pube accepted the government’s shilling.
So far, so normal. More interesting is that May chose to leverage popular affection for the Festival of Britain in her flawed attempt to heal the wounds of Brexit. Why, 70 years on, does this one cultural event – first proposed in 1943 as a commemorative rehash of the Great Exhibition (with a not-dissimilar mix of industry and imperialism) – endure in the national imaginati
‘Like digging up someone’s grave’: Angst at plans to build road through WA Aboriginal massacre site
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A proposal to build a heavy vehicle bypass encroaching on the site of one of Western Australia’s bloodiest Aboriginal massacres has drawn the ire of traditional owners in the state’s South West.
WA’s traffic agency is seeking to use a controversial section of the Aboriginal Heritage Act to clear a portion of what traditional owners warn is the site of the Pinjarra massacre as part of a plan to divert trucks away from the town’s centre.
Like digging up someone s grave : Angst at plans to build road through WA Aboriginal massacre site brisbanetimes.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brisbanetimes.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The architect who worked with some of the profession’s legendary names died this month. Christian Frost looks back at his father’s career
The architect Brian Frost has died at the age of 81. His life followed the path of a generation of architects who were shaped by the desire to build following the destruction of the Second World War.
He was born in Rochford, Essex, in May 1939. As an architecture student at Southend Municipal College, his tutor Anthony Jackson invited him to help out at the seminal This is Tomorrow exhibition which opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London in August 1956. The significance of this event for him was still evident even towards the end of his life.