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• Johnny Depp to direct film about celebrated Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani

  15-08-2022 16:30
  
  Film about the artist who died aged 35 will be Depp’s first directing credit for a quarter of a century and he will produce the film alongside actor Al PacinoJohnny Depp is to direct a biopic of Amedeo Modigliani, the celebrated Italian painter who died in poverty in 1920 but who subsequently became renowned for his pictures of nudes with elongated faces and limbs.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Depp will also produce the film alongside actor Al Pacino, who tried and failed to get a M
  
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• Best of the iPhone photography awards 2022 – in pictures

  15-08-2022 14:02
  
  The awards have been celebrating the creativity of iPhone users since 2007. We take a look at a selection of the winners of the 15th annual competition Continue reading...
  
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• Strike! How 80s post-punk band Lining Time crystallised a moment in feminist protest history

  15-08-2022 11:28
  
  The mid-point between the Raincoats and Life Without Buildings, the short-lived Plymouth group brought improv, humour and European radicalism to their newly rediscovered debut albumIn 1982, a group of women found their collective voice. “If I can strike, you can strike, she can strike, we can strike,” they sang during a performance in Plymouth, passing the chant like a baton as they performed playground rhythms on woodblock percussion. Calling themselves Lining Time, this assemblage
  
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• Everyone’s a cynic! Film, TV, music, books and art about pessimism

  15-08-2022 11:00
  
  From Wall Street savagery to withering R&B, choose art that shows humanity at its most misanthropicTaking place over one night in 2008, Margin Call is a taut display of sharp suits and sharper dialogue, in which the cantankerous colleagues at a Goldman Sachs stand-in have to decide between tanking their company or the world economy. It may lack the zany thrills of The Big Short, but by presenting the bankers as calculated insiders, its critique is altogether more damning. Against stiff compe
  
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• Damage limitation: how sculptor Ali Cherri is reworking vandalised art

  15-08-2022 10:00
  
  From the slashed Rokeby Venus to a bullet-scarred Leonardo – artworks famously changed by violence provide inspiration for the Lebanon-born artistOn 14 November 1940, the city of Coventry endured a night of relentless bombing – lives were lost, homes were destroyed and the city’s cathedral was left in ruins. In response, provost RT Howard called, from the ruins of his cathedral, for forgiveness. It was a message that would resonate through the generations.“Coventry is now
  
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• ‘I’m desperate’: how Gillian Wearing exposed our innermost thoughts

  15-08-2022 09:00
  
  In the third of our new series about artworks by women that are relevant today, our writer looks at a series of photographs that revealed the worries of people facing an economic recessionA man in a suit holds up a sign saying: “I’m desperate”. A police officer’s sign says: “Help.” A man in jeans and a striped shirt asks: “Will Britain get through this recession?” Two beaming women write: “Best friends for life! Long live the two of us.&rdquo
  
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