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• Donna Walker-Kuhne shares steps to building an anti-racist organization

  20-08-2022 17:07 via artsjournal.com
  Donna Walker-Kuhne, Founder of Walker International Communications Group, shares key steps towards building an anti-racist arts organization.
  
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• K-boom! South Korea’s art and high culture lands in Britain with a bang

  20-08-2022 17:00
  
  After K-pop and kimchi led the way, a major UK exhibition and cultural season will celebrate the best of the country’s vivid art, music and styleKimchi, the fermented pickle, led the way, establishing a taste for colourful Korean food in Britain. It was followed by a youth wave of K-pop music hysteria. Then came those two international screen hits, Bong Joon-ho’s shocking 2020 Oscar winner Parasite and last year’s brutal television series Squid Game.Now the influence of South K
  
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• On my radar: Kayo Chingonyi’s cultural highlights

  20-08-2022 16:00
  
  The award-winning poet on his favourite New York record store, the mindfulness of taking photos on film cameras, Ann Patchett’s captivating essays and the lyrical appeal ofMedellínBorn in Zambia in 1987, poet and writer Kayo Chingonyi moved to Newcastle at the age of six. In 2017 he published his first poetry collection, Kumukanda, which won the Dylan Thomas prize and the Somerset Maugham award. His second collection, A Blood Condition, was published last year and in July he became
  
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• Banana split: artists set for court battle over who first taped fruit to the wall

  20-08-2022 14:14
  
  Judge rules that Joe Morford has no ‘copyright in bananas or duct tape’ but can take Maurizio Cattelan to court over Comedian pieceThe latest US lawsuit over a work of art is absolute bananas in every sense. An Italian artist who attached a banana to a wall with duct tape and titled it Comedian – reportedly selling several versions for more than $100,000 – is facing legal action over whether he copied another artist’s work.Maurizio Cattelan is accused of copyright i
  
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• Wish you weren’t here: the photos that show an hour in the life of ‘quiet’ tourist hotspots

  20-08-2022 14:00
  
  Travellers trek to remote destinations in search of Instagram-worthy photos. But at what cost? Photographer Natacha de Mahieu visualises the impact of overtourismNatacha de Mahieu arrived at the edge of Obersee, a remote lake surrounded by lush green mountains and dramatic waterfalls in a south-east corner of Germany, in August 2021. It was chilly; rain pelted down. “It was not so fun to be there. It was so cold and everything was wet,” De Mahieu, 26, says from her home in Brussels,
  
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• ‘When the sun sets, there is this incredible pink’: Thomas Jordan’s best phone picture

  20-08-2022 11:00
  
  The US-based photographer on finding a warm, quiet moment in West ChicagoThomas Jordan was faced with a problem. In the summer of 2021, the US-based photographer was actively focusing more on his own health, both physical and mental, and finding respite in nature. He was looking for what he describes as “warm, quiet moments” for his work, but found the pressure of the search was ruining the experience itself.“I had to stop trying to achieve ‘serious photography work&rsquo
  
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• From The Feast to House of the Dragon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  20-08-2022 07:00
  
  Whether you’re after a gruesome Welsh horror to sink your teeth into or a return to Westeros, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysThe Feast
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  An unsettling but effective horror told entirely in Welsh (with English subtitles), The Feast, starring Annes Elwy, is a visual and sonic banquet. Its eerie sound design will have you shifting uncomfortably in your seat, long before this slow-burning chiller gets its teeth into some much more gruesome imagery. Continue reading..
  
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• Workhouse Arts Center seeks Vice President – Finance

  20-08-2022 05:40 via artsjournal.com
  Workhouse Arts Foundation, Inc., which runs the Workhouse Arts Center, invites applications and nominations for the position of Vice President of Finance, available in the Fall of 2022.About Workhouse Arts Centerhttps://www.workhousearts.org/The Workhouse Arts Center is a regionally and nationally recognized innovative collaboration of visual and performing arts, education, community engagement, historical perspective, and personal enrichment.The Workhouse Arts Center (Workhouse) is housed in t
  
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• Drought Exposes Ancient Spanish StoneHenge

  20-08-2022 00:01 via tinyurl.com
  
  Experts believe the striking circle of dozens of megalithic stones has existed since 5000 BC. However, it was first discovered by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in 1926 before it became flooded in 1963 due to a rural development project under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. – ABCNews
  
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