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• Director, Marketing & Communications

  15-06-2016 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director, Marketing & Communications at The Ohio State University
  Serves as chief marketing and communications officer, providing vision, strategy, and direction for institutional marketing and communications.
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• Development Communications Manager

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  UMS an independent multi-disciplinary performing arts presenter affiliated with University of Michigan is seeking a Development Communications Manager Apply at www.umjobs.org Search: Job ID:127116. The manager will be responsible for overseeing and implementing a comprehensive internal and external communication plan for the UMS Development office including responsibility for the primary writer and editor for the team communications.
  University Musical Society (UMS)UMS is an independent multi-di
  
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• How We Define Creativity In The 21st Century (And Around The World)

  15-06-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Interviewing 806 young professional men and women in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, China, and India, the report highlights three key topics. First, it defines a new global definition of creativity—combining originality, meaningfulness, and value—and the way that this manifests itself around the world. Second, it reveals a surprisingly lower degree of creative self-confidence in Europe and, in contrast, the creative optimism on display in markets that are cur
  
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• Director: It’s A Terrible Time To Be Director Of A Theatre

  15-06-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have become fundraisers who occasionally get time off to do a play, as opposed to theatre directors who have to take an interest in fundraising.”
  
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• Vitra opens first permanent home for landmark designs

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Vitra Schaudepot, which opened this month at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, south-west Germany, has made one of Europes greatest Modern design collections accessible to the public for the first time. Designed by the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Schaudepot is essentially a huge shed displaying highlights of the museums collection. Inside are rows of tall display cases, or vitrines, filled with 400 key pieces of Modern furniture from 1800 to the present d
  
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• The gospel according to Bruce Conner: on the artist's show at Paula Cooper Gallery

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  In one way or another, much of the late, San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner's best work is about radical change. His 1976 film CROSSROADS, which will be included in his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (3 July-2 October), is culled together from footage of US nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands. It is a catalogue of how swiftly such awful weaponry can alter a quiet landscape. Another film, REPORT (1967), includes footage of a serene John F. Kennedy riding t
  
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• Russian authorities thwart Moscow gallery's Design Miami/Basel plans

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  A Moscow-based gallery is showing cardboard cut-outs of Soviet Art Deco at Design Miami/Basel after Russian authorities refused a temporary export licence for the fair. Heritage Gallery, the fairs only Russian exhibitor, applied to the ministry of culture for permission to export the objects, including furniture by Nikolay Lanceray and a vase by Vera Mukhina. The ministry started to ask for more and more papers, then rejected the application a day before the scheduled shipment, says the gallery
  
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• Paint with the polar bears: Norwegian government launches art foundation and residency on Svalbard

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  In the Arctic ocean, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, lies an archipelago of four islands called Svalbard, which is home to more polar bears than people. The remote glacial landscape might seem like an unlikely place to grow a contemporary art scene, but on 12 June the Norwegian ministry of culture announced it is launching an art foundation and artist residency in the capital of Longyearbyen, the worlds northernmost town, where the sun never sets during summer.There are plans to invi
  
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• Long-lost still-life by Gauguin rediscovered in Connecticut

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  A still-life of flowers by Paul Gauguinwhich hung for 30 years in the home of a retired Manhattan antiques dealer, who did not know it was by the artisthas been rediscovered by a Connecticut auction house. Authenticated by the Paris-based Wildenstein Institute, the painting certainly appears to be the long-lost still-life Summer Flowers in a Goblet listed in the artists catalogue raisonn, says the Gauguin specialist, Sylvie Crussard. The work is now due to be sold on 29 June at Litchfield Count
  
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• Kids commission the darnedest things: New York high-schoolers choose public art for Long Island City

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Like it or not, most public art is chosen by people in suits. (Think real estate executives, architects and local officials.) But a funky outdoor sculpture unveiled on 9 June in Long Island City, New York, was selected by a very different panel of judges: high school students.
  For the project, more than three years in the making, the non-profit SculptureCenter invited eight local students to take a two-week course in public art. At the end, the students interviewed three shortlisted artists and
  
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• Jonas Mekas: the film-maker’s film-maker

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  In my life and work, I choose to celebrate the beautiful. Ive seen enough horror, so why put it in films or on paper? asks the nonagenarian artist Jonas Mekas, also known as the godfather of avant-garde cinema. Others concentrate on the dark, depressing aspects of humanityand theres a lot to document because humanity today is pretty horrible. But there are still fragments of paradise around us and we have to keep them alive. That is my responsibility. That is simply what I do.Born on Christmas
  
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• It’s a family affair at Dieter Roth’s studio plus more Basel gossip

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Its a family affair at Dieter Roths studio
  Ever since the death of Dieter Roth in 1998, the Basel studio in which the famously reclusive artist worked and died has been preserved pretty much intact, faithfully retaining the spirit and feel of its late occupant. The lair-like space is rarely open to visitors, as it remains the workplace of Bjrn, Roths son and former collaboratorbut Bjrn decided to host a couple of open evenings for selected guests at the start of this years fair. Not only were vi
  
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• Four decades on, punk’s not dead at Art Basel

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Forty years on from the birth of punk, a high-end art fair seems an unlikely place to find vestiges of its spirit. But if you look closely enough, you will find punk-inspired works across Art Basel. Punks earliest pioneers included The Fugs with their song Nothingan anti-everything nod to, well, nothing. The fairs Unlimited section includes a work by Joseph Kosuth called Titled (Art as Idea as Idea) (1968), which features the text of ten dictionary entries for the word nothing. The conceptualist
  
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• Design Miami branches out in Basel by doubling its cutting-edge Design Curio section

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Design Miami/Basel is diversifying a little bit more every year, says Rodman Primack, the director of the Miami Beach- and Basel-based sister fairs since 2014. Although three new exhibitors are participating in the 11th Basel edition this year, the emphasis is on qualityand varietyover quantity, he says. With 46 galleries in the main section and eight (up from four last year) in the more experimental Design Curio programme, the fair aims to look beyond the mid-century French backbone of the col
  
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• Beyeler gets the balance right

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Alexander Calder and Fischli/Weiss, now on show at the Fondation Beyeler, seem an unlikely pairing for an exhibition. What does the Modernist mobile-maker have in common with the contemporary conceptual collaborators? Balance, movement and the potential for things to fall apart, says the shows curator, Theodora Vischer.
  The obvious link, and what one thinks of first, Vischer says, is Fischli/Weisss Equilibres series (1984-87)photographs of precariously balanced sculptures made out of household
  
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• Art-shipping start-up raises $1m investment

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  The New York-based art-shipping start-up Arta has raised $1m in new venture capital. The funding round was led by art-world investors such as David Zwirner gallery, Sothebys, the artist Rashid Johnson and the collectors Poju and Anita Zabludowicz, along with more traditional tech investors, such as Graph Ventures and Alex Chung, the founder of Giphy, a platform for sharing gifs. Arta, which had its debut at New Yorks Armory Show in 2015, seeks to disrupt the art-shipping business. It enables sh
  
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• Art Basel puts photography in the frame

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Move over painting and sculpture: the definition of blue-chip is expanding. As the International Center of Photography prepares to reopen in New York next week and the new Pritzker Center for Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art welcomes its first visitors, dealers at Art Basel are dedicating extensive (and expensive) wall space to photography, which is being embraced by a new generation of collectors.Meanwhile, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, near Basel, is planning its first
  
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• A monument to the living and the dead: on the Queen's arms and armour

  15-06-2016 23:00
  
  Her Majestys armour, most of which resides at Windsor Castle, is comparatively small in numbers. Modesty of size, however, belies breathtaking quality. As the early 20th-century scholar, Sir Guy Laking, put it in the introduction to his selected catalogue of arms and armour at Windsor (1904), each item can stand the most severe scrutiny.Laking, however, did not bring that kind of intense focus to bear in his own treatment. Although it appears a weighty tome, Lakings catalogue is comparatively s
  
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• Derrick Adams at Pioneer Works

  15-06-2016 22:35 via artnews.com
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• Elon Musk: Odds Are Good We’re All Living In A Giant Simulation

  15-06-2016 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Citing the speed with which video games are improving, he suggested that the development of simulations “indistinguishable from reality” was inevitable. The likelihood that we are living in “base reality,” he concluded, was just “one in billions.”
  
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• Legal Dispute Over Picasso Sculpture Settled, With Leon Black Named Its Owner

  15-06-2016 21:05 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reported today that Leon Black, the billionaire art collector, will now own the Pablo Picasso sculpture Bust of a Woman (1931) that has been at the center of a months-long legal battle. The Qatari family, which had also … Read More
  
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• Legal Dispute over Picasso Sculpture Settled, with Leon Black Named as the Work’s Owner

  15-06-2016 21:05 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reported today that Leon Black, the billionaire art collector, will now own the Pablo Picasso sculpture Bust of a Woman (1931) that has been at the center of a months-long legal battle. The Qatari family, which had also … Read More
  
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• Why A Movie Version Of “Hamilton” Will Take A Long Time

  15-06-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ” ‘Hamilton’ is a show that will make more than ‘Star Wars.’ Why do they have any incentive to try to be like ‘Star Wars’?”asked one Broadway producer who declined to be identified because they were speaking about a rival production.
  
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• Hollywood Guilds Back Bill To More Rigorously Enforce Foreign Work Visas

  15-06-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For years, the guilds have complained that they are not adequately involved in the process and that applicants aren’t properly evaluated. The new bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide appropriate organizations with copies of the Citizenship and Immigration Services’ O visa application decisions.”
  
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• Clare McAndrew, Leading Art Market Economist, on Her Defection to Art Basel

  15-06-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  It’s not so often that a bit of news about a market report can overshadow the opening of Art Basel, the cornerstone of the fair circuit that’s become so integral to the business of buying and selling works. But the … Read More
  
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• Shapely Numbers: Richard Tuttle at Pace, New York

  15-06-2016 19:38 via artnews.com
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• Why The Silence On The Chicago Theatre Abuse Case?

  15-06-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Was everyone hypnotized and mesmerized like some kind of Manson Family Member? Were all these women and stage managers and directors bedazzled by all the attention and full houses to the point where they simply had to submit to the abuse? Were they drugged? C’mon, people, where is the personal responsibility?”
  
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• The Lost Masterpiece Of Pakistan’s Avant-Garde Cinema (?)

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  “Pakistani cinema is assumed to have been untouched by the 20th century’s avant-garde film movements. But, with its documentary treatment of village life, labour and capitalist exploitation bearing recognisable traces of socialist realism, Italian neo-realism and Indian parallel cinema, Day Shall Dawn proves otherwise. The intimate involvement of revered poet [Faiz Ahmad] Faiz – credited with story, lyrics and dialogue – adds gravitas to an already intriguing endeavour.&r
  
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• Birgit Jooss Will Head the Documenta Archive

  15-06-2016 18:57 via artnews.com
  From the Department of Cool Jobs comes news that Birgit Jooss has been named the director of the Documenta Archiv of the Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries in Kassel.The Archiv—or archive, if you prefer—contains a voluminous amount of … Read More
  
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• Who Gets To Have An Arts Career? Increasingly, Only The Affluent

  15-06-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Logically, it makes sense: if an occupation is attractive but probably low-paying, and then there are socioeconomic inequalities in the road to becoming a professional, inevitably that line of work would beckon more people from affluent backgrounds.”
  
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• This is the 1.17 to nirvana: how a Yorkshire commute became a work of art

  15-06-2016 18:13
  
  Bouquets beneath the Humber bridge, the mayor of Gibraltar in his trunks, windfarms and mudflats … the train ride from Goole to Hull has become a symphony of stories
  A short while after leaving Hessle station, my daughter hands me a drawing. She’s been sketching the vast 2,200-metre-long Humber bridge, which we’ve just this minute passed under. What, I ask, are those tiny figures? The people who’ve jumped, she explains.We’re wearing headphones attached to a laptop
  
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• Nabucco, Royal Opera House, review: 'Verdi's essay on oppression and exile now feels searingly topical'

  15-06-2016 18:05
  
  To those asking if it's time Placido Domingo made his final bow, one answer came via the box office: all his performances in the title role of Nabucco are booked solid.
  
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• The World’s First International Sex Advice Expert (She Was Also A Suffragette) Insisted On Female Pleasure

  15-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With her 1918 book Married Love (Downton Abbey fans may recognize the title) “prompting a tidal wave of correspondence,” Marie Stopes became “the closest thing to an expert on sexual equality that the early 20th century ever had – despite, as all evidence suggests, her being a virgin herself.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Alicia Gibson

  15-06-2016 17:44 via artnews.com
  Alicia Gibson is a Brooklyn–based artist who recently staged a solo show, “Purgatory Emporium,” at Canada on the Lower East Side in New York. Previously, she was included in the group show “Hill of Munch” at Rachel Uffner in New York and … Read More
  
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• We’re Losing Our Freedom Of Speech (Here’s How)

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  “While the 20th century saw a worldwide expansion of free-speech protections, over the past decade, press freedom and human rights organisations have reported a troubling rise in governments cracking down on free speech, especially in areas related to digital communication.”
  
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• Medieval Graffiti, And All The Things We Can Learn From It

  15-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one thing, explains historian and archaeologist Matthew Champion, there’s a lot of it, especially in churches – faces, hands, personal marks, horses, geese, “witch marks” made with compasses, sailing ships,demons (but no angels) – and it provides some of the only direct evidence we have of the medieval European 99%.
  
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• Our Digital Life Is Changing Our Sense Of Time (And How We Pay Attention)

  15-06-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the smartphone brings messages, alerts, and notifications that invite instant responses—and induces anxiety if those messages fail to arrive—everyone’s sense of time changes, and attention that used to be focused more or less distantly on, say, tomorrow’s mail is concentrated in the present moment.”
  
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• Remember Microfiche?

  15-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ernie Smith offers tidbits from the history of those little sheets and their coiled cousin, microfilm – from the invention of the process for making and reading them back in the mid-19th century to when carrier pigeons transported microfilmed documents across enemy lines to the adoption of microfilm and -fiche by libraries to the thing the medium is still well-suited for today.
  
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• Even Tap Dance Genius Michelle Dorrance Has Been Reduced To Rehearsing In A Boys’ Bathroom

  15-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Space for dance rehearsals in New York City is so scarce (and getting scarcer as real estate prices keep rising) that even a MacArthur “genius” fellow must resort to desperate measures just to prepare her company to perform. (audio)
  
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• There’s A Full-Size Replica Of The Sistine Chapel Touring Mexico

  15-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rising on the Plaza de la República [in Mexico City], the massive structure marks the first time the Vatican has given permission to reproduce the chapel on this scale … Michelangelo’s paintings are photographic reproductions printed on canvas, their religious scenes composed of over 2.6 million images each about an inch large.”
  
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• Going to the new Tate Modern extension? Here's what to wear

  15-06-2016 15:01
  
  The Tate Modern open their new extension – the Switch House – this week. No dress codes here, but it’s worth thinking about co-ordinating with the grey concrete, the Picasso, Duchamp and Mondrian colour schemes, and Sadiq Khan, who was at the launchA white-hot new London venue brings with it a dress code, spoken or unspoken. When Richard Caring’s Sexy Fish restaurant arrived in Mayfair last year, the look was all about Balmain, contouring and an over-the-knee boot. (And t
  
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• Visual Artists In England Now Have Their Own Union

  15-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artists’ Union England (AUE) has been formally certified as the first trade union representing visual, applied and socially engaged artists in England. … The founding group of visual artists initially launched the union in May 2014, but obtaining [certification] was a three-year process that began in 2013.”
  
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• Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Abruptly Suspends Operations

  15-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rising rent costs, dwindling institutional support, and [company director Carmen Khan’s] personal battle with cancer last winter all contributed to the decision to temporarily cease performances. Until this morning, [the company’s] website was stuffed with programming through December, and when the Inquirer asked about the status of the theater last week, Khan insisted that nothing out of the ordinary was brewing.”
  
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• Morning Links: Tate Modern Protests Edition

  15-06-2016 14:39 via artnews.com
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• Another Music Critic Has His Job Eliminated: Timothy Mangan At The Orange County Register

  15-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was on my way to Gustavo Dudamel’s debut at L.A. Opera on Friday when I was laid off. I could have still gone and reviewed it here (for free) but as you will understand I didn’t feel up to it. … I was not fired for cause (as the lawyers say) or for the quality of my work. In fact, I was told the quality of my work had nothing to do with it. Just need to make that clear.”
  
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• L.A. Dance Project Lands Three-Year Residency In South Of France

  15-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Benjamin Millepied’s company “will spend five nonconsecutive weeks a year in Arles, where the company will be able to work, create and produce, a spokesman for the LUMA Foundation said by email. The foundation is the brainchild of Maja Hoffmann, the cultural philanthropist and heiress of a prominent Swiss pharmaceutical fortune.”
  
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• Why Violinist Jennifer Koh Is Sticking With New York Even Though Her Life Would Be Easier In Berlin

  15-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stateside, she fundraised for eight years to acquire her current violin, while European countries loan instruments to their top artists. Being a self-employed artist in the United States means paying for your own health insurance or going without, not the case in Europe. But at the end of the day, she says, New York wins out on …” (audio)
  
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• Bill Murray Wins Mark Twain Prize For American Humor

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  “‘I’m honored by the award and by its timing,’ Murray said in a statement. ‘I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won’t disturb his peace.'”
  
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• It’s Official: ‘Hamilton’ Is Headed To The West End Next Year

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  “The musical, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, will run at the Victoria Palace Theatre, which is currently being refurbished after Cameron Mackintosh purchased it. Tickets will go on sale for the show in November.”
  
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• What’s it like to be queer and Muslim? Let this photographer show you

  15-06-2016 12:00
  
  Samra Habib, a queer Muslim photographer, has been travelling through North America and Europe to take the portraits of LBGT Muslims willing to share their life stories and desire for connectionPhotographer Samra Habib is queer and Muslim. She has written about attending a queer-friendly mosque in Toronto here, and about the need to listen to queer Muslims in the wake of the Orlando attack here. Her photography project, Just Me and Allah, documents the lives of LGBT people in North America and E
  
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