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Can Hastings’s seafront gallery get it right second time around?

A new lease of life for Hastings art; a London clinic for dancers closes; and whose reviews to trust on David Mamet’s new play?

Forget 1066. For the past decade, the new battle of Hastings has been fought at the south coast resort over an art gallery. Next weekend, the Hastings Contemporary opens after an acrimonious tussle with the owners of the building, the Jerwood Foundation. Back in the late 2000s many Hastings folk tried to stop a gallery being built on the seafront, as local gas guzzlers wanted to keep the area as a car park. But culture won out, and the Jerwood Gallery, funded by the foundation, opened in 2012.

Over the next few years its fortunes were mixed - with displays of its 300-plus British collection, including works by Hepworth and Lowry, and exhibitions. But visitor numbers disappointed, partly because of excellent nearby rivals, the De La Warr in Bexhill and Towner in Eastbourne. Mutual bitching finally led to a parting of the ways between foundation and gallery.

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