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• Designing Motherhood: project puts objects shaped by maternity in focus

  22-06-2021 18:29
  
  In a new book and exhibition, the experience and industry of motherhood isviewed through the lens of designThe humble breast pump, long used behind closed doors, is finally getting its moment in the sun.In 2015, Michelle Millar Fisher, then a curatorial assistant at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, proposed the 1956 Egnell SMB Breast Pump be acquired for the museum’s design collection. One of the first breast-pump designs derived from observing humans instead of bovine subjects, it s
  
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• Jarman award shortlist 2021 tackles and transcends the Covid pandemic

  22-06-2021 15:33
  
  Contenders for the £10,000 video art prize have been announced, including supermarket dance numbers and a London nature reserve turned mortuaryA year locked up inside has done nothing to diminish the scale and scope of this year’s Jarman award nominees, whose work reflects on our unusual times, whether addressing the pandemic directly or offering dazzling escape routes from it.Among the six shortlisted artists for the £10,000 prize, which is named after late film-maker Derek Ja
  
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• ‘My parents’ trauma is my trauma’ – Veronica Ryan on making first Windrush monument

  22-06-2021 15:00
  
  She used to worry about ‘not making enough to pay the rent’. But with a solo show, a commission to make UK’s first Windrush monument and an OBE, the artist has stepped out of the shadows
  Veronica Ryan’s handbag is always heavy. The British sculptor has been a collector since childhood, and her bag is her toolbox, her magpie’s nest, her anchor for a life lived in many places. It’s also fertile ground. Ryan’s mother once caught a glimpse of a date stone sh
  
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• Unknown treasures: the forgotten women of Manchester’s Factory Records

  22-06-2021 10:00
  
  A new exhibition shines a light on the female creatives and managers who helped turn the home of Joy Division and New Order into a three decade-long powerhouseFrom its figurehead Tony Wilson through to the male-dominated bands that found fame on the label, Factory Records is sometimes seen as the epitome of a muso lad fest. But a new exhibition at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum is having a go at changing all that, casting welcome light on the women who were integral not only to F
  
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• Eastbourne’s arty new hotel marks it out as a seaside town on the up

  22-06-2021 08:00
  
  The once-staid East Sussex resort now has a lively bar scene and a cool new place to stay, as well as the striking Towner gallery and those soaring white cliffsThe airy restaurant-cum-reception of Eastbourne’s newest hotel, Port, has blush pink walls hung with local art above mid-century modern furniture, and is filled with the clatter of sharing plates being passed around. Sitting here, I find it hard to imagine how this boutique newcomer could provoke any controversy.Yet it did. Before P
  
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• ‘You run in screaming’: Nude swimmers brave cold to mark winter solstice at Dark Mofo

  22-06-2021 04:58
  
  Some 1,500 skinny dippers took plunge in Hobart’s River Derwent in act of purification to signal end of arts festivalAfter a year off because of coronavirus, Hobart’s Dark Mofo nude winter solstice swim has returned to a nippy River Derwent.Some 1,500 people braved the 3C air temperature to strip off at 7.42am on Tuesday and mark the shortest day of the year. The water was a comparatively warm 12C. Related: ‘A firework is a beautiful way to pay tribute’: Dark Mofo ceremon
  
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• How To Make Audiobook Narrators More Diverse?

  22-06-2021 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most novels feature characters with an assortment of different backgrounds, and this can require narrators to voice characters with identities very different from their own. – Slate
  
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