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The City of London Corporation has voted to re-site monuments to William Beckford and Sir John Cass in Guildhall.

Art Basel has been postponed from June to September. In a statement released yesterday the organisers of the fair stated that their goal is to ‘achieve the broadest possible international attendance for the show’ when it does take place. Last year, Art Basel was postponed from June to September before being cancelled altogether. This year, the hope is that vaccination programmes across the world will have advanced enough to make an event possible. Earlier this week, a fire at the Bozar (the Centre for Fine Arts) in Brussels was put out by nearly 100 firefighters. The building was closed ...

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The City of London Will Remove Statues of a Former Mayor and a 17th-Century Merchant, Both Slaveholders, From Its Headquarters The statues honor former Lord Mayor of London William Beckford and 17th-century merchant Sir John Cass. Statue of Sir John Cass in Guildhall. Photo by the wub via Wikimedia Commons. The City of London, the municipal governing body that oversees the city’s historic centre, where much of the UK’s financial sector is located, will move two statues of controversial historical figures who profited from the Transatlantic slave trade from its Guildhall headquarters. Fo...

Slavery statues in City of London to be removed What is city talk? Statues of two prominent figures in the City of London with links to the Transatlantic slave trade will be removed and re-sited, the City of London Corporation’s Policy and Resources Committee has decided. The committee voted to move statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass which currently stand in its historic Guildhall headquarters. The City Corporation will set up a working group to oversee the removal of the statues and the works that could replace them, and will also consider commissioning a ne...