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• Hollywood And Abortion Activism

  14-07-2022 23:28 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Meetings, walkouts, subtle out of office notes – and representation: “Many in Hollywood have begun to think about how they portray characters receiving abortion and reproductive care. And some in the industry have been turning to their guilds for guidance.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• X-Rays Reveal A Hidden Van Gogh Self-Portrait

  14-07-2022 23:03 via bbc.com
  
  “Experts at the National Galleries of Scotland made the find when the canvas was X-rayed before an exhibition. The hidden self-portrait was covered by layers of glue and cardboard on the back of an earlier work called Head of a Peasant Woman.” – BBC
  
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• Meryl Streep’s One Weird Trick

  14-07-2022 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  You can never unsee this, so only click if you dare. – The New York Times
  
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• What the Fuck Is This by Celeste Mountjoy review – David Shrigley for the terminally online

  14-07-2022 19:30
  
  Popular internet comic @filthyratbag takes pitch-black experiences and alchemises them into painful, pithy punchlines – with emphasis on the punchAt 16, Celeste Mountjoy had already found viral fame as an illustrator under her moniker @filthyratbag. The username, in her words, referred to being “a sneaky lil shit”, but it was also an apt descriptor of the Australian artist’s comics – deadpan, self-effacing, grotesque, bleakly relatable – which made their way f
  
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• Living With Ghosts review – Africa’s revolutionaries come back from the dead

  14-07-2022 11:56
  
  Pace Gallery, London
  The lives of forgotten, suppressed and erased political figures, as well as ordinary people, are explored by nine artists in this gripping showDineo Seshee Bopape has placed various forms of processed earth, each with a link to human culture, on low plinths made of mudbrick. There are subtle washes of coloured pigment, a dried circle of pale paste and dustings of gold leaf. Around them are dozens of clay cylinders, roughly shaped by the clenching fingers of a hand.These clay
  
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• Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait discovered behind earlier painting

  14-07-2022 07:00
  
  X-rays reveal artist’s face with hat and neckerchief on canvas in National Galleries of Scotland collectionIt was on a Friday afternoon that they found him, staring intently from the back of a canvas in a wide-brimmed hat and loose neckerchief: a previously undiscovered self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most popular and influential figures in western art history, which had been hiding in plain sight in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland for more than half a ce
  
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