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11 things not to miss when the River of Light trail launches next week
For 14 nights, families can enjoy an outdoor illuminated art gallery on Liverpool s waterfront
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Liverpool will play host to the first big outdoor family event in a year when the River of Light trail launches next week.
The event was originally planned for November last year but was cancelled due to lockdown restrictions. The trail was to be part of the River of Light Bonfire Night celebrations on Liverpool s waterfront, however, the whole event was cancelled over concerns around large crowds gathering in one place during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jeff Koons, mid-lesson. Courtesy of MasterClass.
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Carnegie Museums Staff Vote to Unionize – Employees at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museums are the latest in a wave of museum workforces to vote in favor of joining a union. Full-time and part-time staff at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History voted 278 to 75 to join the United Steelworkers’ 500-member United Museum Workers unit. (
Nathan Coley, From Here (2020) courtesy Mark McNulty
If 2020 has left you a little depleted, Glaswegian artist Nathan Coley’s latest installation, unveiled in Liverpool today, might make you feel better. The text-based light sculpture, entitled
From Here, wraps around the sides of St. George’s Dock Pumping Station, a Victorian landmark located on Mann Island on the city waterfront. Liverpudlians can see and savour the uplifting piece which spells out
From Here, All the Worlds Futures, From Here, All the Worlds Pasts (art buffs will spot the reference to the late curator’s Okwui Enwezor’s influential 2015 Venice Biennale show,