Hints and tips:
...This is where I like to come after a visit to Tate St Ives, and where I send friends looking for places to stay in Cornwall....
...Among the first recipients was Rufus Norris, now artistic director of the National Theatre....
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...I came out of Tate’s Matisse Picasso show and there were some big photographs and I thought, ‘the world looks very dull in a photograph but Picasso and Matisse made it exciting.’...
...Some even appeared as extras in London Road, Rufus Norris’s film adaptation of the National Theatre musical about the murders of prostitutes in Ipswich in 2006....
...With the coming of Tate Modern and the reconstruction of the Globe theatre, the expensively restored Festival Hall and swathes of new apartment blocks and cafés, the orientation of the city has changed....
...Rufus Norris will take over from Sir Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre in April 2015, while Alex Beard, former deputy director at the Tate, took the reins at the Royal Opera House last...
...Audience, and since the play is based on the monarch’s meetings with her prime ministers over the years, we’ll also be treated to Robert Hardy as Churchill (again), Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown and Rufus...
...Sir Nicholas Serota, born in 1946, director of the Tate gallery since 1988, convinced public and private backers to stump up £137m to create Tate Modern, with spectacular results....
...The two Sir Nicks are on board – Serota of the Tate, and Kenyon of the Barbican....
...But none of these venues has the pulling power of London attractions such as the Tate Modern, or regional art galleries like Tate Liverpool or Glasgow’s Kelvingrove when it comes to visitor numbers....
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