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• John Salt obituary

  05-01-2022 18:44
  
  British pioneer of photorealist painting in the US in the 1960s and 70sJohn Salt, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of photorealist painting, a genre that emerged in late 1960s America, in part, like its predecessor pop art, as a response to abstract expressionism. The paintings were of photographs of random subjects, enlarged and rendered in such detail that they themselves could be mistaken for photographs.John was British but, while living in the US, and painting photographs of cars and tra
  
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• Italy returns Parthenon fragment to Greece amid UK row over marbles

  05-01-2022 16:23
  
  Loan deal could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate ancient Parthenon marbles to AthensItaly is returning a fragment belonging to the Parthenon’s eastern frieze to Greece in a breakthrough deal that could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century.The marble fragment, which depicts the foot of a goddess, either Peitho or Artemis, peeking out from beneath an elaborate tunic, is currently held at the Antoni
  
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• Craig Ruddy, Archibald prize-winning painter, dies at 53 from Covid complications

  05-01-2022 11:20
  
  Ruddy was best known for his paintings of leading Indigenous Australian figures including David Gulpilil, Bruce Pascoe and Cathy FreemanThe Archibald prize-winning Australian artist Craig Ruddy has died aged 53 as a result of Covid complications.Ruddy, who was based in the New South Wales northern rivers region, won Australia’s most celebrated portrait prize in 2004 for his painting of David Gulpilil, titled Two Worlds. He also won the Archibald people’s choice prize that year, and a
  
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• Craig Ruddy, Archibald prize-winning painter, dies at 53

  05-01-2022 07:53
  
  Ruddy was best known for his paintings of leading Indigenous Australian figures including David Gulpilil, Bruce Pascoe and Cathy FreemanThe Archibald prize-winning Australian artist Craig Ruddy has died aged 53.Ruddy, who was based in the New South Wales northern rivers region, won Australia’s most celebrated portrait prize in 2004 for his painting of David Gulpilil, titled Two Worlds. He also won the Archibald people’s choice prize that year, and again in 2010, for his portrait of W
  
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• Craig Ruddy, Archibald-prize winning painter, dies at 53

  05-01-2022 07:53
  
  Ruddy was best known for his paintings of leading Indigenous Australian figures including David Gulpilil, Bruce Pascoe and Cathy FreemanArchibald-winning Australian artist Craig Ruddy has died aged 53.Ruddy, who was based in the New South Wales northern rivers region, won Australia’s most celebrated portrait prize in 2004 for his painting of David Gulpilil, titled Two Worlds. He also won the Archibald People’s Choice prize that year, and again in 2010, for his portrait of Warwick Tho
  
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• How Hobbies Took Over America (For Good And Bad)

  05-01-2022 00:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Hobbies take on this aura of being good, useful, appropriate, and socially sanctioned. Something you should—the word here is should—be doing. And if you’re one of those slackers that doesn’t have a hobby, then you are suffering from some kind of a moral weakness or failing.” – The Atlantic
  
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