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• Cold War Steve: satire is my antidote to a scary world

  15-06-2019 21:05
  Twitter collagist tells how what started as a coping mechanism has led to the cover of Time and a Glastonbury hook-upAs the world around him gets madder by the day, the process of creating satirical collages has kept Christopher Spencer sane.The artist known as Cold War Steve, whose image of Brexit Britain sinking beneath the Thames graced the cover of Time magazine this month, could have “gone on Twitter and ranted”. Instead he used the social media platform to share his versions of
  
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• Deputy General Manager / The 99 Club / London

  15-06-2019 18:57
  The 99 Club is an award-winning comedy club, working the finest comedians in the country seen on shows such as Live at the Apollo & Mock the Week. We’ve been awarded Best London Club at the...
  
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• Dwell Time Exhibition Opening & Issue 2 Open Call Launch / / Yorkshire / Huddersfield

  15-06-2019 18:09
  Dwell Time Exhibition Opening & Issue 2 Open Call LaunchThursday 18th July, 6:30-9pm
  Huddersfield Railway StationExhibition Opening: 6:30pm Main Concourse Waiting Room
  Issue 2 Open...
  
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• Lunar Gardening | Kingsgate Project Space / Kingsgate Workshops / London

  15-06-2019 17:11
  Lunar Gardening 
  Samuel Palmer, Helen Sear, Lydia Brockless, Johanna Love, Charley Vines, Angus McCrum, Nina Royle, David Harrison, Rebecca Guez, Leah Stewart
  with additional material...
  
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• Franco Zeffirelli, 96

  15-06-2019 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Critics sometimes reproached Mr. Zeffirelli’s opera stagings for a flamboyant glamour more typical of Hollywood’s golden era, while Hollywood sometimes disparaged his films as too highbrow. But his success with audiences was undeniable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Auction House Internship / Brompton`s Auctioneers / London

  15-06-2019 16:16
  Brompton’s Auctioneers is one of the world’s leading string instrument auction houses; holding 6 auctions a year with additional private sales. We have been operating from our Mayfair...
  
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• Auction Manager / Brompton`s Auctioneers / London

  15-06-2019 13:13
  Brompton’s Auctioneers is one of the world’s leading string instrument auction houses; holding 6 auctions a year with additional private sales. We have been operating from our Mayfair...
  
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• Performers for Expanded Cinema Show Latitude Festival 2019 / Compass Presents / South West

  15-06-2019 13:11
  We are looking for Dancers, Movement Artists, Acro Performers, Mime Artists, or Ground-Based Circus Performers for an expanded cinema show that will take place at Latitude Festival on...
  
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• Survey: Working in the Arts & Mental Wellbeing / Dwell Time / Yorkshire / Huddersfield

  15-06-2019 12:07
  On the flip side of the studies and headlines articulating how powerful and positive art can be for mental health, there’s a dark underbelly of the stresses and neglect of mental health in the...
  
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• 'They didn't look old enough': who filled a French art gallery with fakes?

  15-06-2019 12:00
  Last year, a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him. How did it get there?Odette Traby was dying. It was the summer of 2016 and the sun baked the terracotta roofs of her hometown, Elne, in the south of France, as she lay in bed. Weeks earlier, the 78-year-old had been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. This grande dame of Elne town life had refused all treatment and chosen to tough it out alone. “She was someone who wanted
  
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• Opportunity for young people at Theatre Deli Sheffield / Louise Orwin & Co / Yorkshire

  15-06-2019 02:37
  This is an opportunity for young actors, age 14 - 18 to meet performance artist Louise Orwin and work with her on her brand new one woman show.The workshop is for female & femme identify...
  
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• Calling artists: art for victims of domestic violence / The Blooming Apple Campaign / London

  15-06-2019 00:43
  We will be holding an art exhibition on the 21st of July 2019 as a fundraising and raising awareness for victims of domestic violence in London. We are looking for artists, creatives and...
  
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• Renegade, prolific, formidable: was Mary Kunyi the NT's Jackson Pollock?

  15-06-2019 00:17
  A new retrospective of paintings by the Indigenous artist shows a maverick at work Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann launched the first retrospective exhibition of her mother’s multi-decade painting career with an open question to the audience.She recalled the 1973 controversy surrounding the National Gallery of Australia’s purchase of the US painter Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist work Blue Poles. “Well, if they bought that then, why weren’t they interested in
  
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• Does Owning A McMansion Make You Happier?

  15-06-2019 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be clear, having more space does generally lead to people saying they’re more pleased with their home. The problem is that the satisfaction often doesn’t last if even bigger homes pop up nearby. “If I bought a house to feel like I’m ‘the king of my neighborhood,’ but a new king arises, it makes me feel very bad about my house.” – The Atlantic
  
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