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Viewfinder competition: win a £150 hotel voucher
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Name the place and win a £150 voucher from Hotels.com, letting you stay at thousands of hotels worldwide.
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Marks & Spencer makes Paris comeback with Champs Elysées store
New Marks and Spencers shop to open in Paris France 10 years after controversial retreat. Items on offer will include food – by popular demand.
This article titled “Marks & Spencer makes Paris comeback with Champs Elysées store” was written by Kim Willsher in Paris, Dan Milmo and Marie Winckler, for The Guardian on Friday 1st April 2011 17.54 UTC Shortbread and Earl Grey tea are heading back to the Champs Elysées later this year as Marks & Spencer returns to France, a decade after its retreat across the Channel prompted street protests in Paris. The retailer replanted a British flag in the heart of the Gallic retail industry by announcing, 10 years after it quit the capital amid stern criticism from trade unions, politicians and ardent muffin fans, that it would open a shop on Paris’s most famous boulevard before Christmas. The retailer is opening a three-storey outlet on the Champs Elysées, towards the end of this year. What is more, following a clamour by British organisations in France and threats of a boycott, it will be selling not only women’s clothing and lingerie – as first thought – but also food. Thoughts of ready meals and cheddar cheese may still appal a nation that gave the world haute cuisine. But French foodies have a grudging respect for the venerable British retailer, and Parisians were excited about the “grand retour”. Comments on French newspaper websites were overwhelmingly positive. Audrey Guttman, 23-year-old Parisienne arts consultant, said: “Special occasions in my childhood were peppered with Marks and Spencer delights such as Bugs Bunny-shaped fried chicken and Percy Pigs soft candy. I was devastated when they left, and the same items coming in from London just didn’t quite taste the same afterwards.” However, like many she was doubtful about the uncool choice of location: “Really, Marks and Spencer, the Champs-Elysées?! It’s not 1999 anymore!” French blogger Wendy Nourry Breguet, 25, added: “As a Frenchie, Marks & Spencer has always been an Ali Baba’s cave of food, fresh products, spices, foreign foods, which are absent from most French shops.” Pierre Cornette, a 28-year-old gallery owner was less convinced: “M&S plays on its super image in France for quality and tradition, but I can’t really see how it’s going to sell its English products to a Paris clientele, above all in this age of organic produce.” As well as the 1,000 sq metre Champs Elysées shop, there will also be five Simply Food stores at “transport hubs” such as railway stations in Paris and a “handful” of larger shops in and around the French capital. A website, trading in euros, will be launched and will be the group’s first to permit international purchases and deliveries across France. The original idea was for the new store to sell only clothing and home goods, in accordance with the lease on the prestigious Parisian floorspace. But a campaign persuaded executives to change their minds. British-born Pamela Lake, a Parisienne since 1963, who spearheaded the “no food, no go” campaign, said she and her British and French friends were delighted by the company’s apparent change of heart. “It would have been commercial suicide to do otherwise,” she said. “I shall be there for my double cream, bacon, sausages and Indian food.” She added: “I phoned my friends this morning and said ‘we’ve won’. Everyone was so pleased. When M&S closed here it was practically a day of national mourning for us in Paris. Now the company has admitted it was the biggest blunder they ever made.” She said French friends who joined the campaign would be looking forward to getting their Christmas crackers, mince pies and Christmas puddings. “They’ve also missed the Stilton cheese,” she said. All M&S stores in continental Europe were closed as the company battled to turn around its British business. Last year the former boss Sir Stuart Rose said the decision to pull out of Europe was a mistake, calling it “tragic”. The company’s chief executive, Marc Bolland, said the company was “very excited” about its return: “Over the past 10 years the number of demands … from people for us to come back has been enormous.” He added: “Our company has changed in a positive way and France has moved on as well. We want to come back in an extremely positive way.” Bolland has declared he wants to speed up the group’s international expansion and said there was scope for faster growth, particularly in Asian markets. M&S has 358 stores in 42 overseas territories.
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Thousands march in London against spending cuts
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Turnout for the anti-cuts demo and march to Trafalgar Square has been revised upwards to around 400,000 as people take to the streets in London to protest against the government’s planned public service cuts.
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Artist Anish Kapoor warns arts cuts are ‘rolling us back to the Thatcher years’
Anish Kapoor is the artist commissioned to build the Orbit Tower for the Olympics Stadium in Stratford
This article titled “Artist Anish Kapoor warns arts cuts are ‘rolling us back to the Thatcher years’” was written by Maev Kennedy, for The Guardian on Thursday 3rd March 2011 17.14 UTC The Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has accused the Tories of having a “castration complex” about the arts, warning that it will take decades to recover from the damage caused by current cuts. “Already they’re rolling us back to the situation of the Thatcher years, and that took 15 years for the arts to recover,” he said. “I despair of this government, they just don’t get it, they just don’t understand that citizenship, community spirit, all the things they’re talking about, can come from art, can come from a sense of cultural belonging.” “I’ve given up on them, I’m afraid. To me it seems that it is neo-rightwing policies being forced through under the pretence of being middle of the road and reasonable.” Kapoor, in uncharacteristically angry and political mood, was in Manchester for the opening of his first major exhibition outside London in 12 years. He fears that no young artist today will have the career boost from a public institution that he received when at 25 the Arts Council Collection, organiser of his current exhibition, bought some of his earliest work. The collection paid £3,500 for his 1982 piece White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers, which used intricate shapes and raw powder pigment. The money was enough to keep him working as an artist for many months at a time when most of his contemporaries despaired of earning a living from their art. The exhibition – at the free admission Manchester Art Gallery, now losing staff to voluntary redundancy and struggling to make major savings for a second year – includes loans from other public collections. Her Blood, three enormous reflecting discs which took two lorries to transport, is owned by the Tate but has never been exhibited in the UK before; a major mirror piece came from Bradford, and another very early pigment piece is from Liverpool, and has not been displayed for years. “The value of having these pieces in public collections is immense,” Kapoor argued. “Not just in money terms, though they are all worth far, far more than these institutions paid, but in being where people can see them freely, be inspired, believe that this is possible.” Kapoor is on a roll. His giant twisting red tower is already rising on the 2012 Olympics site, and he became the first living artist since Henry Moore to be exhibited in the royal parks when several of his mirror pieces were installed in Hyde Park last year. He mounted a huge twin city show backed by the British Council in India last year, his first in his native country, and he is also working on commissions for the Venice Biennale, as well as a site specific piece for the gigantic 13,500 sq metre nave of the Grand Palais in Paris. Surprisingly, although Kapoor is responsible for giant public art installations in cities across the UK, his last exhibition outside London was in 1999. He helped choose the works for this show, which include loans from his studio of new pieces in alarmingly blood-red wax. This is the second Flashback exhibition drawn from the Arts Council Collection, showing off some of the curators’ most inspired hunches, artists now world-renowned whom they backed in their earliest days: the first show was of Bridget Riley, and the next will be Gary Hume. The collection, now run by the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank arts complex, was founded in 1946 – “two years before the National Health”, as director Caroline Douglas points out – to support emerging artists, and holds work by Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin. At a time when most cash-strapped public collections have pared acquisitions to the bone, it still has an annual acquisitions budget of £180,000, and adds around 30 works every year. As well as mounting exhibitions, the collection makes loans to institutions such as hospitals and schools. Kapoor looks fondly at the brilliant colours of the piece he made and sold just two years after graduating from Chelsea School of Art. “It made a huge difference. That a public institution had enough confidence in me to put its money where its mouth was, that meant everything.” Anish Kapoor: Flashback. Manchester Art Gallery March 5 – June 5, then touring.
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