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• Everyday objects sculpted from scraps – in pictures

  16-10-2021 18:00
  
  Philadelphia artist Lydia Ricci sculpts from scraps and rubbish. “I treasure a discarded electrical bill like others value their family jewels,” she says. She uses this stuff to make miniatures of overlooked everyday objects: hairdryers, shopping trolleys, couches. “They are messy and imperfect, just like memories.” See more at fromscraps.com Continue reading...
  
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• On my radar: Courttia Newland’s cultural highlights

  16-10-2021 16:00
  
  The novelist and playwright on Thundercat’s bass genius, an insight-filled black history exhibition and the colourful ceramics of Lubna ChowdharyCourttia Newland was born in 1973 and raised in west London. After an early start in music, he turned to writing fiction and published his first novel, The Scholar, aged 23. Eight more books followed, including A River Called Time, which came out earlier this year. Newland has written eight plays, beginning with Estates of Mind, which was first st
  
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• The art of style: fashion at London’s Frieze Art Fair – in pictures

  16-10-2021 12:20
  
  From Rick Owens to Ebay, we found out what the stylish visitors to the first post-pandemic fair are wearing – and what they thought of the art Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Basil Watson to design Windrush monument in London

  16-10-2021 10:21
  
  Statue will pay tribute to generation who arrived from Caribbean, but itsWaterloo location has been criticisedThe internationally renowned artist Basil Watson has been chosen to design a permanent national Windrush monument that will be unveiled in Waterloo next year, despite criticism of its location in London.The statue, which is backed by £1m of government funding, will showcase three figures – a man, woman and child – dressed in their “Sunday best” climbing a mo
  
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• Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes

  16-10-2021 09:00
  
  Tourist board in Austrian capital rails against censorship of art on social media platformsMore than a century after the artists of the Vienna Secession declared “to every age its art; to art its freedom”, the Austrian capital has found a new site for artistic expression free from censorship: the adults-only platform OnlyFans.Vienna’s tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against pla
  
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• From Succession to The Last Duel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  16-10-2021 07:00
  
  Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week coveredear for eye
  Writer-director debbie tucker green brings her affecting play to the big screen at the London film festival. The BBC are premiering it simultaneously on BBC Two and iPlayer. Continue reading...
  
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• Symphony San Jose Seeks President/General Director

  16-10-2021 06:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  About Symphony San JoseFounded in 2002, Symphony Silicon Valley has progressed from daring idea to exciting reality, rapidly becoming the greater South Bay’s premier professional orchestra and a notable community success story. In October 2021, the Symphony changed its name to Symphony San Jose, recognizing the long connection to the nation’s 10th largest city. The Symphony budget for the current season is $3.8 million.The Symphony’s artists, nationally recruited, locally resi
  
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• The Team Orchestrating Your Brain’s Consciousness

  16-10-2021 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This new framework points to a view of the brain as a fusion of the local and the global, arranged in a hierarchical manner. – Psyche
  
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