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• Sketches traded for stories at Billingsgate fish market – in pictures

  03-07-2021 18:00
  
  Commuting to Docklands at 5am is not the typical artist’s routine, but it’s been Pat Wingshan Wong’s since she started visiting Billingsgate fish market in 2019 to capture life there ahead of its planned move to Dagenham in 2025 . “ I wanted to show the significance of the space, and how it’s affected by rapid urban development,” she says. She would sketch portraits of the fishmongers and barter these in return for their stories and memorabilia. “That&rs
  
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• ‘You are the one spark in my life’: Laurie Lee’s loving letters to secret daughter

  03-07-2021 15:00
  
  Newly discovered exchanges between the Cider with Rosie author and painter Yasmin David show their joy at finding one anotherAdoring, hidden letters exchanged between the Cider With Rosie author Laurie Lee and the painter Yasmin David, his secret daughter from an illicit affair with a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, have been unearthed in lockdown.The emotional correspondence, found concealed in an old chest in the David family home in Devon, is full of the pair’s delight at find
  
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• Gap In Museum Pay Is Widening

  03-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museum directors brought home an average annual salary of $320,600, compared to $317,500 in 2019. Meanwhile,visitor services associates, who were most impacted by job cuts, earned less in 2020: an average of $31,600 (full-time) compared to $32,600 in 2019. – Hyperallergic
  
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• ‘I was filled with dread’: after her father killed her mother, Amani Haydar found words to heal

  03-07-2021 00:00
  
  In her new book, the lawyer, artist and women’s advocate turns family trauma into something extraordinary, far-reaching and ultimately hopefulThe day after Amani Haydar’s father murdered her mother, the rewriting of her life’s story began.Her childhood, her memories, her beliefs, her ideas about her parent’s relationship – they were all up for reassessment after “the night everything happened”. In those first few days in 2015, that phrase were the only w
  
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