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• The amazing street photography of Eamonn Doyle

  23-07-2016 20:00
  
  For 20 years he hardly picked up his camera – now Martin Parr is a fan and the Beckett-inspired Dubliner is the talk of this summer’s Arles photography festival• See a gallery of Eamonn Doyle’s Dublin photographs hereEamonn Doyle is an unlikely candidate for the title “saviour of street photography”. When he began photographing old people passing by his front door on Parnell Street in Dublin in 2011, it was the first time he had used a camera in more than 20 ye
  
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• Around Dublin with street photographer Eamonn Doyle – in pictures

  23-07-2016 20:00
  
  Five years ago, Irish photographer Eamonn Doyle began snapping people near his Dublin home. Here we show images from his Dublin trilogy of books i, ON and End.All photographs © Eamonn Doyle, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery• Read more about Eamonn Doyle’s street photography Continue reading...
  
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• Gallery offers visitors a 3D digital sculpture in four seconds

  23-07-2016 19:20
  
  Royal Academy of Arts to give people ‘a sense of what you actually look like’ using the Veronica Chorographic ScannerThe Royal Academy of Arts is to launch a groundbreaking experiment designed to give visitors the unsettling opportunity to see themselves as they really are.The London gallery is to install cutting-edge technology in September as part of a major interactive experiment using the Veronica Chorographic Scanner, which can capture every pore and pimple – as well as mo
  
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• Meet and eat: characters made from fruit and veg – in pictures

  23-07-2016 18:00
  
  Photographer Emily Dryden and sculptor/actor Zahydé Pietri combine theatricality and organic produce to compose the photographs for their series Fresh Faces. The portraits are made from a wide range of fruit and vegetables and aim to highlight humanity’s diversity – Pietri is from Puerto Rico and Dryden is from New York. Each face has its own name and identity: “We have stories for them, which you can see in the expressions,” says Dryden, “but we decided to k
  
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• Ten Things That Can Make Your Organization More Diverse

  23-07-2016 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To make a real impact we need to think beyond the here and now to who the next generation of arts professionals are going to be. We need to go into schools and colleges and talk to young people about the careers that are available to them. We need to take arts and culture job fairs out into communities to tackle socio-economic barriers and increase awareness of opportunities.”
  
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• The Art Of Moralizing About The Food You Eat

  23-07-2016 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Perhaps the clearest proof that the way we talk about food is saturated with moralism is the ubiquity of the term “guilt”. Marketing departments have seen the power of this and promoted “guilt-free” snacks and treats. This promises an escape from self-recrimination but simply reinforces it by suggesting that eating the “wrong” kinds of foods does and should make you feel guilty.
  
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• How Rich Donors Change The Behavior Of America’s Museums

  23-07-2016 00:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For museum executives, the dirty secret of expansions has been that they are often motivated by the need to have some exciting new thing to rally board members and interest potential patrons. These institutions depend heavily on rich people to fund them. Those rich people like to pay for flashy new buildings; no one wants to donate to boring old museum upkeep.”
  
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• The Principal Dancer’s Career-Ending Injury That Created An Actress

  23-07-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “November 12, 2013. I was ready to make a jump, I hit a slippery spot on the floor and heard two huge pops in my right knee,” she says. “The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) had ruptured. The pain came from my tibia slamming into my femur.” She’d had injuries before – what dancer hasn’t? – but realized this could be career-ending: “I went into surgery, knowing I might not come back.”
  
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