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• Rachel Cooke on criticism: ‘What is the point of a critic if not to tell the truth?’

  28-03-2020 19:30
  
  In this age of pile-ons and ‘cancellations’, complacency and cliques, how does a critic stay free-thinking and engaged? Our reviewer pauses for thought...When Mary Beard’s new BBC documentary series Shock of the Nude began last month, I had high hopes. A new censoriousness is abroad both in the art world, and in our wider culture, and I hoped that she might have something to say about this: something clear, clever and non-prurient. But alas, it was not to be. I disliked her app
  
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• Musical Director / Mosaic Chamber Choir (Woking) / South East

  28-03-2020 19:00
  Mosaic Chamber Choir, one of Surrey's leading chamber choirs, is looking for an experienced and ambitious Musical Director to start in September 2020.Mosaic is a high calibre, auditioned, mixed voice...
  
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• For one tide only: modernist sandcastles – in pictures

  28-03-2020 18:00
  
  Artist Calvin Seibert grew up on a ski resort strongly influenced by brutalist architecture in 1960s Colorado. “The construction sites were never fenced in, so they were great places to play and always had piles of sand,” he says. Later, after studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Seibert began making modernist sandcastles.See more on Seibert’s Instagram page Continue reading...
  
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• Cancelled culture: at-home substitutes for major theatre, art and music events

  28-03-2020 17:00
  
  The Observer’s critics offer creative alternatives to major forthcoming gigs, concerts, shows and exhibitions that have been postponed or called offCancelled: Eurovision Song Contest 2020Alternative: Charli XCX’s Self-Isolation IG Livestream (Instagram)It’s hard to know how long CXCX will continue with her top-notch series of daily livestreams, in which she’s played at talkshow host, communing with collaborators Christine and the Queens, Rita Ora and Kim Petras, or workin
  
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