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• Meet the ‘graffiti grannies’ of Lisbon

  13-09-2015 19:00
  
  The oldest is 90, the youngest 59 – and workshops in the Portuguese capital for older people who want to make street art are proving hugely popular‘I don’t paint on walls every day; I need to have the nerve to do it. And the spray cans get heavy so it’s better if I have a friend along to help carry them,” says 65-year-old retired doctor turned street artist Luísa Cortesão.In most cities, Cortesão would earn the title of the oldest graffiti artis
  
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• Proms 75 and 76, Royal Albert Hall, review: Vienna Philharmonic serve up sumptuous finale

  13-09-2015 16:17
  
  Saving the best till last, the Proms gave us two brilliant nights with the Vienna Philharmonic, first under Semyon Bychkov’s inspired and meticulous direction with symphonies by Brahms and Franz Schmidt, then under Simon Rattle’s direction with Elgar’s Gerontius.
  
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• William Kentridge; Uwe Wittwer review – exhilarating and melancholy

  13-09-2015 09:00
  
  Marian Goodman gallery; Parafin gallery, London
  South Africa’s William Kentridge considers a whole new world of influences, not least China, in his compelling new showIn the charcoal dusk of a William Kentridge animation, a pageant of living beings trudges, twirls and sways its way from one vast film screen to the next. Round and round the gallery they go, like figures from some medieval procession. Here are saints bearing palms and sinners bearing nameless burdens, church choirs sashaying
  
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• Charles Traub's Lunchtime draws attention to the 'distinct uniqueness of everyday people'

  13-09-2015 01:00
  
  Charles Traub has little time for celebrity. "It is regular people who interest me most," he says. "I'd like to stop them all and ask them who they are, what they do, and why they are where they're at. And to find out if my suppositions about them are right. It's a kind of game."
  
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