The UK-based Clore Duffield Foundation is giving more than £2.5m of grants to support learning and community work affected by the pandemic at cultural organizations across the country, it was announced this week. The money will be distributed between 66 recipients, including the RA and V&A in London, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, the National Gallery of Scotland, and the National Museum Wales. Funds will be allocated according to the size of the grant each organisation first received from the foundation to open its learning space.
I visited Laila Muraywid’s studio in Paris, it is the kind of place that rearranges your inner geography. A Syrian artist working between painting and sculpture, she creates objects that feel at once intimate yet cosmic, like relics from ancient times that pulse with contemporary pain and splendour.