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• Cramping my style: street art that highlights London living conditions – in pictures

  12-03-2022 18:00
  
  Artist Raphael Vangelis has lived in London for seven years and is all too aware that renting is expensive – and that you don’t get much space for your money.His street art, Brickflats, reflects the cramped living conditions many endure. Vangelis finds a wall with a brick missing, then fills the space with a resin-cast box that has figures of people squashed in. The first appeared last year, and so far nearly a dozen of his colourful bricks have been spotted in the capital, sometimes
  
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• Sarah Johnson discusses arts education and The Lullaby Project

  12-03-2022 17:21 via artsjournal.com
  Sarah Johnson, Chief Education Officer of Carnegie Hall, shares the importance of arts education and the impact of Carnegie’s Lullaby Project.
  
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• The best free spring culture, chosen by Observer critics

  12-03-2022 17:00
  
  Amid the cost of living crisis, free culture has never been more vital. Here are 20 events to enrich mind and wallet this season, from Hockney in Cambridge to Cardiff’s 6 Music fringe festivalHenry Moore: Sharing Form
  Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 27 May-4 September Continue reading...
  
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• From a Thatcher nutcracker to a Trump toilet brush: my curious collection of political memorabilia

  12-03-2022 12:00
  
  As a foreign correspondent I used to report on dictators and democrats. Now I collect them‘Emmanuel Macron? No, we have nothing at all. People were happy for a day or two after he was elected, but now they all hate him.” It was a disappointing response from a souvenir shop owner in the heart of Paris between the Boulevard St Germain and Notre-Dame. Figurines of Marianne, models of the Eiffel Tower and tricolore-draped bric-a-brac were ranged on shelves looking out over the Seine on m
  
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• ‘There was this lone, shirtless guy on the street’: Bradley Meinz’s best phone picture

  12-03-2022 11:00
  
  The LA-based photographer on the sunbather he stumbled across on a walk to Beachwood Canyon during the pandemicIf you looked through Bradley Meinz’s living room window, you’d see the Hollywood sign. The photographer lives in LA’s Beachwood Canyon, and in February 2020 he was taking daily hikes to the landmark and back. News of a pandemic was beginning to circulate, and the streets were uncharacteristically deserted. It was on one of those hour-long walks that he stumbled across
  
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• ‘I couldn’t face the resentment and rage’: can artistic couples have successful relationships?

  12-03-2022 10:00
  
  From Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Philip Roth and Claire Bloom – novelist Charlotte Mendelson on the seething envy within famous partnershipsWhy would anyone be interested in authors? It’s not as if they’re a charismatic, or even good-looking, breed. I mean that lovingly. Having spent my life in books, publishing, editing, reviewing, teaching and writing them, I can exclusively reveal that most of the writers I’ve met are exactly as you’d expect; formerly Indoor C
  
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• From Top Boy to Warhol: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  12-03-2022 07:00
  
  Whether you want gritty, Hackney-set drama, Chvrches’ glittering synthpop or an insight into the pop art icon, our critics have your plans for the next seven days coveredThe Metamorphosis of Birds
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  Shot on 16mm, Portuguese writer-director Catarina Vasconcelos’s poetic documentary essay starts with the Vasconcelos’s grandfather Henrique, and traces a thoughtful pathway through a family dynasty, using voiceover, archive and photography to create a multi-generational collag
  
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• Techtopia: When Work Becomes The New Religion

  12-03-2022 00:01 via religionnews.com
  
  The larger problem with worshipping work is that it sucks up employees’ interest and energy in any kind of civic engagement in neighborhoods, cities, local and national politics. “Techtopia,” she writes, “is corroding the collective capacity to build and sustain the common good.” – Religion News
  
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