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• Two men playing draughts on an abandoned train: Gosette Lubondo’s best photograph

  19-01-2022 16:16
  
  ‘Both of the people on this train in Kinshasa are me. I superimposed myself because I can’t afford models’This image, part of a series called Imaginary Trip, was taken in an abandoned train outside Kinshasa station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was looking for a site to evoke an imaginary voyage to convey the idea of memory, the passage of time and the reappropriation of old places. A lot of young men hang around this area, which is a poor neighbourhood, and they s
  
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• Dutch purchase of Rembrandt work criticised over tax haven link

  19-01-2022 14:26
  
  Questions raised over move to buy The Standard Bearer for €175m from trust in the Cook IslandsThe Dutch government is facing criticism after it emerged that a Rembrandt masterpiece is to be bought by the state from the Rothschild family through a tax haven in the South Pacific.A debate in the country’s senate heard that the €175m (£145m) purchase of The Standard Bearer would be from a trust located in the Cook Islands whose holding company is located in Saint Vincent and th
  
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• Mapping fictions: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps

  19-01-2022 13:20
  
  In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond ChandlerFrom efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On Exactitude in Science (where the only sufficient map is in fact as large as the territory it depicts), fictions and maps have long maintained a complicated, entwined relationship. While the right map can uniquely resonate with a literary text, this resonance exists amid an undeniable tensio
  
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• Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps

  19-01-2022 13:20
  
  In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond ChandlerFrom efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On Exactitude in Science (where the only sufficient map is in fact as large as the territory it depicts), fictions and maps have long maintained a complicated, entwined relationship. While the right map can uniquely resonate with a literary text, this resonance exists amid an undeniable tensio
  
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• Black, queer and visible: Ajamu’s intimate images – in pictures

  19-01-2022 08:00
  
  For three decades, artist and ‘sex activist’ Ajamu has celebrated the pleasure and eroticism of Black British life. A new book showcases his work Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A very Adelaide thing to do’: who is behind the city’s googly eyes wave?

  19-01-2022 01:40
  
  Adelaide residents have their eyes glued to a low-stakes whodunnit hitting landmarks across the suburbs, including a KFC sign and a colonial statueGet the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingA serial prankster has been leaving a trail of novelty oversized googly eyes across metropolitan Adelaide, from fast food and liquor store mascots to one of the city’s most recognisable colonial monuments.The eyes first appeared in the early hours of 11 January, when a pair of suburban Dan
  
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