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• The artist who removes skin colour and boundaries – in pictures

  12-02-2022 18:00
  
  In this series of vibrant oil paintings, Nigerian artist Ekene Stanley Emecheta depicts figures drawn from fantasy, history and his own life, replacing their skin colour with a layer of white paint.“My paintings are based on the human aura,” he says. “I paint over them with white because I think it gives it a soulful look and creates a sense of inward expression… when I eliminate the skin colour, it removes the boundary that makes us limit our humanity and the ways we ca
  
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• Empty shops could be studios for next Bacon or Hirst, says leading curator

  12-02-2022 14:09
  
  Opening up dead retail space to artists could revive town centres and cultural life, says Whitechapel Gallery directorBritain’s empty high street shops and derelict department stores should be transformed into artists’ studios and galleries to bring life back to city centres, according to the outgoing director of one of the country’s leading art spaces.With artists being pushed out of city centres by soaring rents and living costs, galleries under financial pressure and high st
  
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• ‘The twee beach huts stand in contrast to the bleak industrial landscape’: Fred MacGregor’s best phone picture

  12-02-2022 11:00
  
  On holiday in North Yorkshire, the photographer spotted a perfect surfer shot off Saltburn PierWith a newborn in a sling and a polystyrene tray of fish and chips in his hands, Fred MacGregor came across this scene at the end of North Yorkshire’s Saltburn Pier. The photographer was on holiday with his wife and children, so had “neither the space in the bag, nor the headspace” for his usual DSLR.“The photographer Chase Jarvis once said, ‘The best camera is the one you
  
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• Marina Abramović: ‘I don’t want to have my life in control’

  12-02-2022 10:00
  
  The performance artist is known for putting herself in challenging situations. Now, she says, it’s your turn, with a set of instruction cards aiming to ‘reboot your life’Go into a park, find a tree you like, hold the tree and complain to the tree. This was Marina Abramović’s technique for staying focused during the pandemic. In 2020, she and a group of volunteers tried out this tree-hugging exercise during a five-hour programme on Sky Arts that sought to educate watc
  
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• From Uncharted to Foxes: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  12-02-2022 07:00
  
  Whether it’s Tom Holland searching for lost treasure or the return of a synthpop star, our critics have your plans for the week coveredUncharted
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  Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star as Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan in a big-screen adaptation of one of the bestselling video game franchises of all time. Join them on their efficient multi-tasking quest to find both long-lost treasure and a long-lost brother. Continue reading...
  
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• The Case For Translators As Collaborators

  12-02-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  For Jennifer Croft, the campaign to bring greater recognition to translators isn’t just a plea for attention and credit, though it’s partly that. Croft also believes that highlighting translators’ names will bring more transparency to the process and help readers evaluate their work. – The New York Times
  
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