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• The beauty of the ‘new’ Van Gogh is to point up the work that goes into genius | Bidisha

  16-07-2022 19:00
  
  A freshly discovered self-portrait shows the necessary routine of the creative processVan Gogh has been spotted in Scotland. No, this isn’t a Loch Ness-like apparition but the manifestation of the likeness of someone with equally mythic status. A self-portrait by the man himself has been found on the back of a small painting called Head of a Peasant Woman. Discovered by an X-ray during a routine conservation and cataloguing process, the portrait, estimated to date from after his move to Pa
  
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• Folded wings: birdlife as colourful collages – in pictures

  16-07-2022 18:00
  
  Sarah Suplina has long been fascinated with the birds flitting around in her back yard in Connecticut. The artist decided to capture them in collage form: painting thick watercolour paper, cutting it with scissors and knives and layering everything together using extra-strong glue. “I want my work to capture the beauty of each bird, along with some of his or her natural surroundings,” she says. As the series evolved, Suplina started looking further afield to create hens and sparrow,
  
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• What Hate Can Do: inside a devastating new exhibition on the Holocaust

  16-07-2022 08:05
  
  At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, an expansive new exhibition traces back the story of Jewish life before, during and after a horrifying periodOne enters The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, the updated core exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, through a dark corridor. Yiddish and Hebrew songs are piped in as well-lit photographs and bright video screens show moments of domestic life from across the Jewish diaspora from decades ago. Families from Germany, Poland, Latvia, the N
  
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• From The Good Boss to The Kid Laroi: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  16-07-2022 07:00
  
  Whether you want a wry look at the workplace or some youthful, Bieber-assisted pop-rap, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysThe Good Boss
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  A fabulously appealing Javier Bardem performance anchors this Spanish comedy (above) that takes aim at the worst excesses of matey modern workplace culture – and what happens when all that corporate bonhomie goes south. Continue reading...
  
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• General Manager – Ogunquit Playhouse

  16-07-2022 05:29 via artsjournal.com
  Ogunquit Playhouse seeks a dynamic General Manager to work alongside a dedicated senior leadership group led by Executive Artistic Director Bradford Kenney, to help lead the day-to-day administrative operations and strategic growth of a $12.5 million budget regional theater.The General Manager will oversee finance, facilities (property management), information technologies, and human resource departments. The Playhouse is looking for a strong manager and collaborative team player.Experience in n
  
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• Garish, Gaudy, Goofy: Seeing Double from Metropolitan Museum’s “Chroma” Clones of Ancient Statues

  16-07-2022 00:46 via artsjournal.com
  Ever since I learned that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were originally cloaked in color (not in shades of
  
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