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• Animator PoC (freelance) / Humblebee Creative Ltd. / London

  15-11-2020 22:29
  Humblebee Creative are excited to champion the work of Black British animators in the UK through the Black History School and we believe in the power of representation in onstage and backstage roles....
  
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• Creativity can help to heal Britain's divided society

  15-11-2020 11:30
  
  The arts are key to enabling different ethnic groups to empathise with one another, especially in these difficult timesIt goes without saying that 2020 has been an enigma to many. We’ve all heard the word “unprecedented” many times and perhaps we even let ourselves indulge in the fantasy that when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the unpredictable nature of this somewhat dystopian year will be over and 2021 will bring us a more familiar sense of stability, ce
  
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• A family feud, a mystery firm and the Botticelli masterpiece that quietly vanished

  15-11-2020 10:35
  
  Whereabouts of $10m painting are unknown as legal fight over its ownership continuesIt is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance depicting one of the most celebrated images in civilisation.Reportedly once owned by Imelda Marcos, Madonna and Child (1485), from the studio of Sandro Botticelli, was valued at $10m when it was the subject of a lengthy court case to prove ownership. Related: The gangster vanishes: twist in hunt for world’s largest haul of stolen artContinue reading...
  
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• The bigger picture: should British museums sell to stay afloat?

  15-11-2020 10:15
  
  As galleries auction off treasures to retain staff and plug cash gaps left by Covid, the art world is divided on ethics of disposalGoing up close to a great work of art, perhaps to Auguste Rodin’s full-height sculpture of a shy Eve, is a rare pleasure in a neighbourhood gallery, especially since opening hours are now restricted by the pandemic. The Southampton City Art Gallery is one of those municipal buildings with perhaps more than its fair share of unexpected treats due to the bequest
  
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• The big picture: remembering Okwui Enwezor, a giant of the art world

  15-11-2020 09:30
  
  The pioneering curator and mentor to Steve McQueen pictured before the opening of his landmark 2002 MoMa show, The Short CenturySteve McQueen, our guest editor, chose this portrait of Okwui Enwezor to open this special edition of the New Review. It shows Enwezor, arguably the most influential curator of his generation, at the opening of his 2002 show The Short Century at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition, which featured 48 living artists, revealed work that was intimately inte
  
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• On my radar: Jay Bernard's cultural highlights

  15-11-2020 09:30
  
  The poet on logic puzzles, sweetcorn ribs and listening to Idles on repeatSteve McQueen answers questions from celebrity admirersJay Bernard (who uses the non-binary “they”) is a British artist, writer and poet born in Croydon, London in 1988. They studied English at Oxford University and, in 2005, were named a Foyle young poet of the year. Their multimedia performance work Surge: Side A, which explores the New Cross fire of 1981, won the 2017 Ted Hughes award for new poetry. Bernard
  
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• I want to focus on possibilities, on young, emerging talent

  15-11-2020 09:00
  
  The artist and film-maker introduces his special issue of the Observer New Review, coinciding with the premiere of his Small Axe anthology on BBC One Steve McQueen answers questions from celebrity admirersI often find myself asking: “What’s it all about, Alfie?” I am a son, brother, husband, father, uncle, cousin and friend. I am a Londoner, who grew up in a working-class environment on the White City estate in Shepherd’s Bush, but I live in Amsterdam. Again, what’s
  
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• Poor Mary Wollstonecraft – reduced to a Pippa doll with pubic hair | Rachel Cooke

  15-11-2020 08:30
  
  Maggi Hambling’s statue to commemorate the mother of feminism is causing quite the wrong kind of stir When we moved to this corner of north London 16 years ago, two things thrilled us. The first was the fact that Charles Dickens’s secret love, Nelly Ternan, once lived in a house at the end of our street, to which the writer was a regular visitor. The second was that Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism and my all-time heroine, worshipped at the nonconformist chapel up the road
  
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