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• Women for women at collector Valeria Napoleone’s house

  18-03-2017 22:00
  
  I dont do politics, I do philanthropy, stated the patron and collector Valeria Napoleone, during an in-conversation with Women for Women Internationals Brita Fernandez Schmidt during an all-woman gathering hosted at the Napoleone family home in Kensington to celebrate and support this important organization, which supports women in countries affected by war and conflict. Yet although she might not see it in these terms, Ms Napoleone can also be said to epitomise the personal-as-political in her
  
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• Is it me you're sewing for? Lionel Richie street embroidery – in pictures

  18-03-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When she was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Molly Evans Fox created #LionelStitchie, a street embroidery project that combined her talent as a textile artist and her love of photography. The project features Lionel Richie hits embroidered on to discarded furniture in a fitting cheese-coloured yarn. “I have a thing for old furniture,” Evans Fox says. “I think the textiles in our homes somehow retain the residue of our daily habits in their threads.” The series began when
  
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• New York graffiti tour turns the illicit underground into accessible art

  18-03-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Meet the street artist who gives tours around the city as part of a group that’s found success showing the legal side of what some consider urban blightIt’s a blistery March afternoon and I am standing in a huddle of around 40 St John’s University freshmen outside of a high end coffee shop on the Lower East Side. We are all waiting for Leaf, our graffiti guide for the day from Graff Tours, a company that specializes in graffiti how-to workshops and tours of notable graffiti art
  
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• G&G has become a Royal Academician (singular)

  18-03-2017 04:00
  
  Gilbert & George has become a Royal Academician. This is the first time that
  Londons Royal Academy of Arts has chosen two people as a single artist in its
  248-year history. Gilbert (born Italy, 1943) and George (born Devon, 1942) have
  just been elected by the Academys General Assembly (their surnames, which are
  not given in the announcement, are actually Proesch and Passmore). An Academy spokeswoman
  confirmed that G&G, as they are often known, will only hold a single vote
  
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