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Thames Art Gallery set to reopen with new exhibition

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4 years ago

September 12, 2020

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The Thames Art Gallery is set to reopen its doors to the public after a lengthy pandemic closure.

As of Wednesday, the gallery will open for temporarily reduced hours, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

The gallery will also hold a special hour for seniors from 11 a.m. to noon.

Canadian artist Patrick Mahon’s new show “Messagers’ Forum” will showcase culture at the intersection of art and activism.

According to a release, Mahon “explores the roots of this country’s colonial past and asks: can we be ‘messagers’ capable of reaching over the walls which divide us? And if so, how?”

For “The Questions Project,” in the mezzanine gallery, Mahon worked with Ursuline College Chatham students to produce a series of works investigating how culture is changing.

His work with the students took place during the early days of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.

Mahon will give an overview of the exhibit this Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Register in advance, as spaces are limited, by calling 226-312-2023 ext. 4425 or email CKartgallery@chatham-kent.ca

All safety measures will be in place, including the requirement to wear masks in compliance with the municipal bylaw. Access to the gallery will be walk-in/sign-in, and will be limited to 30 people at any one time.

Although there is no formal opening for the exhibit due to COVID-19 precautions, small group and social bubble tours are welcome. To request a tour, call the gallery at the number above. Admission is free. Donations are welcome.

Source:- Stony Plain Reporter

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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate – Cracked.com

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November 3, 2024

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John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 – CBC.ca

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October 31, 2024

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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1 month ago

September 26, 2024

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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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