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• Budget or Fudge It? Will NEA & NEH Actually Get Their “Historic Increase” in Federal Arts & Humanities Funds?

  01-10-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as Donald Trump was (thankfully) denied his repeatedly expressed wish to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for
  
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• Rothko on paper, Rossetti in love and Télémaque on the rampage – the week in art

  01-10-2021 16:30
  
  Shilpa Gupta celebrates imprisoned writers, Rankin has fun with baldpieces, Rothko reaches for the sublime and the Turner prize goes in for group love – all in your weekly dispatchHervé Télémaque
  This radical Parisian pop artist mixes Tintin and Roy Lichtenstein to tell global stories of modern life.
  • Serpentine, London, from 7 October to 30 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Fruit sculptures in Hackney honour Windrush generation

  01-10-2021 13:45
  
  Veronica Ryan creates UK’s first permanent artwork dedicated to people affected by the scandalThe first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation in the UK has been unveiled in the east London borough of Hackney, as councils across the country kick off the first day of Black History Month.The work, created by the artist Veronica Ryan, is one of two permanent sculptures that symbolise the council’s respect and commitment to the Windrush generation and their legacy and contri
  
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• Fruit and veg sculptures in Hackney honour Windrush generation

  01-10-2021 13:45
  
  Veronica Ryan created UK’s first permanent artwork dedicated to people affected by the scandalThe first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation in the UK has been unveiled in the east London borough of Hackney, as councils across the country kick off the first day of Black History Month.The work, created by the artist Veronica Ryan, is one of two permanent monuments that symbolise the council’s respect and commitment to the Windrush generation and their legacy and contrib
  
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• Embracing vitiligo: Ugandan artist dispels skin stigma with portraits

  01-10-2021 09:01
  
  People with the condition can face being seen as ‘cursed’ in the east African country, says Martin Senkubuge, whose art aims to make them proud of their skinIt was a confrontation with a female Michael Jackson fan that first drew Martin Senkubuge’s attention to the skin condition vitiligo.Senkubuge, a Ugandan artist, was describing his tattoo of the musician to the woman at an art exhibition in Kampala in 2019, when he accused the pop star of bleaching his skin. Continue readin
  
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• Black History Month launches in UK with ‘proud to be’ campaign

  01-10-2021 08:00
  
  Local authorities raise pan-African flag to mark start of series of events for October across BritainBlack History Month launches with hundreds of events across the country this October, amid a new campaign encouraging people of all ages to share what they are proud to be on social media.Now in its 34th year, this Black History Month has a renewed focus on black British resistance to racism – inspired in part by last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests – and celebrates key fig
  
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• A new start after 60: ‘I started sketching at 72 – and graduated with a fine art degree at 96’

  01-10-2021 07:00
  
  Archie White was a keen teenage artist, but gave it up for five decades as a solicitor. Now he is starting a new student charity and painting furiouslyArchie White says he would like to retire, but I’m not sure I believe him. This summer he made headlines when he graduated with a fine art degree from East Sussex College. He was 96 years and 56 days old – a few months short of setting a new world record for the oldest graduate.Graduation was only the beginning. “I’m pretty
  
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• Jonathan Franzen And His Evil Twin

  01-10-2021 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sometimes it seems like there are two people called Jonathan Franzen: the successful, acclaimed novelist, and his evil twin. This can be the only explanation for why he polarises otherwise like-minded people in a way that even Donald Trump or Meghan Markle can’t. – BBC
  
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