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‘Never forgotten’: New Aberfan disaster collection on display at St Fagans

'Never forgotten': New Aberfan disaster collection on display at St Fagans A new collection of objects telling the story of the Aberfan disaster is now on display in the ‘Wales is’ gallery at St Fagans National Museum of History. On 21 October, 1966, disaster struck the small mining village of Aberfan when a colliery slag tip slid down the side of a hill and engulfed a...

Cyngor Gwynedd to use Welsh language name only – as campaigners urge others to follow suit

Cyngor Gwynedd to use Welsh language name only - as campaigners urge others to follow suit Dale Spridgeon, local democracy reporter A Welsh council has been praised by Welsh language campaigners for stepping up its efforts to prioritise the Welsh language Gwynedd Council or ‘Cyngor Gwynedd’ as it will be now increasingly be known has recently adopted a reformed Welsh Language Policy. ...

Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art https://buff.ly/3TaWrpX Now, almost 80 years after her death, she is the outsider who has found recognition as a visionary artist, a pioneering star of abstract art.

Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development https://buff.ly/3CGSHG0 His use of found objects and rubbish to create collages and surprising imagery laid the foundations for both pop art and today’s thriving conceptual art scene.

Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development Followers of the German modernist give up hopes of preserving his working studio, the Merz Barn after funding cut

Picturing a Voice - Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone https://buff.ly/2qKZddV Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images

Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were th...