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• Timothy Spall’s teenage obsessions: ‘For my art A-level I nailed up apples covered in pubic hair’

  02-09-2021 15:17
  
  The actor on studying with the Sex Pistols, being in a Bowie tribute act, the appeal of Roxy Music, the help of teachers and the power of surrealismMy 13th birthday in 1970 coincided with David Bowie coming out of Space Oddity and turning into Ziggy Stardust. My mate Peter was a dead ringer for Bowie. He had the same haircut and dressed in gold lamé tights and platform shoes. I got a pair of horn-rimmed glasses from a junk shop and this frock coat from Kings Road and we went round togethe
  
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• No jab, no job: David Walsh mandates Covid vaccination for all Mona staff

  02-09-2021 09:18
  
  The owner of the Hobart gallery penned a colourful memo defending his decision, which has renewed discussion on the legality of compulsory vaccinationGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTasmania’s flagship gallery, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), has become the first cultural institution in Australia to compel employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19.In a memo issued to staff on Thursday, Mona’s idiosyncratic owner David Walsh utilised a dissident Soviet wr
  
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