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• Bill Cunningham, Photographer Of New York Street And Society Fashion, Has Died At 87

  25-06-2016 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist, one who used the changing dress habits of the people he photographed to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic.”
  
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• Alejandra Atarés's portraits from the back – in pictures

  25-06-2016 18:00
  
  When the painter Alejandra Atarés began collecting pictures of her family and friends, she was struck by those with their back to the viewer. This was the inspiration for her series Retratos, which aims to understand “the relationship between the individual and the environment”. The 28-year-old Zaragoza native, based in Barcelona, paints herself, her loved ones and celebrities, all from behind, and uses the backgrounds to evoke moments in the subject’s life. Ataré
  
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• Artists are in shock after the vote, but we need them now more than ever | Charlotte Higgins

  25-06-2016 14:53
  
  In the years to come, artists and intellectuals will venture across the rift to interpret the two halves of our divided kingdom to one other“We had a headache,” wrote Philip Pullman on Twitter on Friday, “so we shot our foot off. Now we can’t walk, and we still have the headache.”There is, of course, no one like a novelist to reach for the apt and telling metaphor at a time of chaos. The referendum result rings particularly bleakly for Britain’s cultural world
  
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• How painter Winifred Knights became Britain’s ‘unknown genius’

  25-06-2016 13:00
  
  Knights’ use of classical subjects in a modern age made her the most promising painter of the 1920s. So why is she only now receiving her first retrospective exhibition?The Deluge (1920) remains one of the most instantly familiar artworks of the first half of the 20th century. Bought by the Tate in 1989, Winifred Knights’ 6ft canvas is packed with 21 anguished, beseeching figures and a worried-looking dog. The nominal subject is the biblical story of Noah’s ark, but the timeles
  
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• Tony Feher, Sculptor of Simple Objects With Far-Reaching Meaning, Dies at 60

  25-06-2016 05:07 via artnews.com
  Tony Feher, the American sculptor whose low-key work involving everyday objects captured the transience of life, died today of cancer-related causes. He was 60.Feher’s work involved the careful, deliberate use of everyday materials, which he just barely altered. Often these were things … Read More
  
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• The Stark Awfulness Of Conflict Journalism

  25-06-2016 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s an awful word that Western media folk sometimes use to describe my kind of journalism that’s meant to be flattering but always makes me cringe precisely because it expresses so well this gap between audience and subject, and the conflict therein. The word is “humanizing.” By my own standards, if my article has succeeded, if I’ve done what I set out to do, I have to some degree “humanized” a situation—a conflict, a crisis—for th
  
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