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• Shades of grey: the 2022 Mono awards – in pictures

  27-08-2022 22:00
  
  Dedicated to the art of black-and-white photography, the Mono awards celebrate the very best in three categories: people, place and animalsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...
  
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• Brave mew world: Lim Heng Swee’s cat landscapes – in pictures

  27-08-2022 18:00
  
  Since 2019, Kuala Lumpur-based artist Lim Heng Swee has been creating digital artworks of cats camouflaged as landscapes. “I found that the body shape of cats lying on the floor is very similar to the shape of a mountain,” he says. “So I decided to blend or hide them inside colourful minimal landscape art.”Although he has never owned a cat, he is inspired by the strays he sees wandering around his neighbourhood. “Cats for me are solitary and mysterious, but at the s
  
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• ‘The flash of red by her ankles is reminiscent of defiance’: Ako Salemi’s best phone picture

  27-08-2022 11:00
  
  The Iranian photojournalist on a woman he spotted in northern AfghanistanIn 2015, Ako Salemi was on a photography trip to northern Afghanistan with fellow Iranian photojournalist Majid Saeedi. One day, the pair were exploring near the tomb of Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib, known locally as the Blue Mosque for its intricately detailed blue tiled domes and exterior. People feed the many doves – a symbol of peace – that gather around the tomb, and Salemi photographed this woman as she carved
  
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• From Chris Rock to Burning Man: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  27-08-2022 07:00
  
  Whether your idea of fun is cutting-edge US comedy or a desert festival-meets-country house sculpture clash, we’ve got you coveredOfficial Competition
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  Fresh from its UK premiere at the Edinburgh international film festival, and worth seeing for Penélope Cruz’s sensational wardrobe alone, this is a thoroughly entertaining and pointed satire of actors and acting. Antonio Banderas has the time of his life playing an A-list thesp attempting a serious arthouse film for the
  
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• Another Theatre Closes In San Francisco

  27-08-2022 00:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  The Exit Theatre — the stalwart Tenderloin venue with three small theaters and a cafe, home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival — is closing its Eddy Street doors by the end of 2022. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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