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• Duncan Grant's erotica is a blast of defiant joy in tough times for the arts | Barbara Ellen

  10-10-2020 19:00
  
  Recently discovered drawings are a relief from Rishi Sunak’s cold message to artistsAn inspiring story has surfaced about the re-emergence of more than 400 erotic drawings by the late Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant, who lived most of his life as a criminalised gay man.The drawings, thought to be destroyed, have been offered to the Charleston Trust, which manages Grant’s former East Sussex retreat. And what images they are: defiantly subversive and explicit multiracial homoerotica, bu
  
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• On my radar: Russell Tovey's cultural highlights

  10-10-2020 16:00
  
  The actor on David Byrne’s kooky show, the joy of mountain walks and a moving memoir by a gay MuslimActor Russell Tovey was born in Essex in 1981. He had his big break in 2004 as one of The History Boys in Alan Bennett’s award-winning stage play and subsequent film. He has since appeared in a number of acclaimed TV shows including Being Human and Him & Her, and was nominated for a 2020 Critics’ Choice award for best supporting actor in Years and Years. Tovey is also an art
  
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• Freelance Project Coordinator (Maternity cover) / Artlink Hull / Yorkshire / Hull

  10-10-2020 14:51
  £21,589 pro rata
  Part Time 
  Fixed term freelance contract, Dec-Mar 21
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a community orientated project coordinator to help deliver Artlink...
  
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• Assistant to the Directors / Biddle & Webb Auctioneers / West Midlands / Birmingham

  10-10-2020 13:46
  Biddle and Webb Auctioneers and Valuers are looking for a driven individual to help implement the changes to our business model.  Helping to replace a wonderful, 19-year veteran, as they move...
  
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• George Floyd, isolation and Zoom: hundreds of artists fuel pandemic exhibition in San Francisco

  10-10-2020 12:00
  
  The reopened de Young Museum hosts 877 works by Bay Area artists telling the story of the momentNearly seven months after San Francisco became the first US city to enter a pandemic lockdown, its cultural institutions and nightlife are beginning to resurface.As the city grapples with whether 25% occupancy caps will help or harm its beleaguered restaurant scene, its famed de Young Museum has unveiled a major new exhibition of 877 individual works, all by 722 Bay Area artists who submitted them dur
  
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• Purrfect match: cats and their human doubles

  10-10-2020 10:00
  
  We all know someone who looks like their dog, but what about our feline friends? Photographer Gerrard Gethings set out to match moggies with their lookalikes – with uncanny results. By Kathryn BromwichIf you’ve spent much time on the internet over the past decade, chances are you’ve seen some cats on there. Cats chasing their own tails. Cats attempting ill-judged jumps from one piece of furniture to another. Or, in the case of Gerrard Gethings, a cat who looked exactly like the
  
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• By The Waters of Liverpool in April 2021 / Blackpool Grand Theatre / North West

  10-10-2020 08:42
  Featuring a star-studded cast from stage and screen; Sian Reeves, Mark Moraghan, Parry Glasspool, Lucy Dixon and Eric Potts join Lynn Francis, Danny O’Brien, Roy Carruthers and Chloe...
  
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