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Canadian curators take the reins at UK institutions, Barbican and Spike Island
Devyani Saltzman is new arts director at City of London venue while Nicole Yip replaces Robert Leckie in Bristol
Bristol's Arnolfini gallery faces backlash after cancelling Palestine film events
Film screening and poetry night were pulled over concerns they may be seen as "political activity"
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Five shows to see during UK Black History Month
From Wangari Mathenge at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to a celebration of Black British designers at Somerset House
Public artnews
Marc Quinn’s BLM protestor statue could be reinstalled on Bristol plinth that held slave trader monument
Sculpture of Edward Colston was pulled down by activists last summer and will now be placed in a museum
Banksynews
Not to be sneezed at: £350,000 Bristol house taken off market after Banksy paints mural worth millions on it
Owners are now considering how best to protect the work of a sneezing woman
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Bristol creatives fundraise for new boat venue championing black artists
“There has been a stigma around the harbour which needs to be decolonised,” says project co-founder