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Caleb Klaces on "The Weight of Words" - Criticism

Here are some of the phrases the visitor will encounter at “The Weight of Words,” a group show featuring eighteen living artists and writers wo ....

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The Art Diary May 2023 – Rev Jonathan Evens

The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions, including Joe Tilson, Jim Ede ....

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British Museum, Spotlight Loan Crossings, community and refuge

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The Lampedusa cross is made from pieces of a boat that was wrecked on 11 October 2013 near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia. The overcrowded boat carrying 466 migrants from Somalia and Eritrea caught fire, capsized and sank at a time when there was no official maritime rescue service. Three hundred eleven refugees fleeing persecution and seeking refuge in Europe were drowned. Inhabitants of Lampedusa helped to save the lives of 155 others.
The island’s carpenter, Francesco Tuccio, met some of the survivors at his church and, moved by their plight, made individual crosses for each person. Unable to make a difference to their situation, the best he felt he could do was to use his skills as a carpenter to fashion each a cross from the boat’s wreckage as a reflection on their salvation from the sea and hope for the future. These crosses also reflected the fate of many migrants. ....

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British Museum announces Lampedusa Cross to tour UK for the first time on 10th anniversary of Syrian Revolution

British Museum announces Lampedusa Cross to tour UK for the first time on 10th anniversary of Syrian Revolution
Issam Kourbaj (b. 1963), Dark Water, Burning World, 2016, repurposed bicycle steel mudguards, extinguished matches and clear resin. © Trustees of the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of artist Issam Kourbaj.
LONDON
.- A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge will tour the Lampedusa cross around the UK for the first time. Made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia, the cross carries poignant messages about kindness, community and the indifference faced by many refugees. ....

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'A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: Community and Refuge' To Tour UK

A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge will tour the Lampedusa cross around the UK for the first time. Made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia, the cross carries poignant messages about kindness, community and the indifference faced by many refugees. ....

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