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• What If Reality Is Defined By Relationships Rather Than Physical Properties?

  07-09-2022 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Quantum physics may just be the realisation that this ubiquitous relational structure of reality continues all the way down to the elementary physical level. Reality is not a collection of things, it’s a network of processes. – The Guardian
  
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• Barack and Michelle Obama return to White House for unveiling of portraits

  07-09-2022 19:47
  The Obamas did not have their unveiling ceremony while Donald Trump was in officeBarack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, returned to the White House on Wednesday for the unveiling of their official portraits, hosted by Joe Biden more than five years after the 44th president left office.Large, formal portraits of presidents and first ladies adorn walls, hallways and rooms throughout the White House. Customarily, a former president returns for the unveiling during the tenure of his successor. B
  
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• Revenge fantasies for colonised Australia: Ryan Presley’s vivid, violent tableaux

  07-09-2022 19:30
  In work that may shock, the Marri Ngarr artist subverts centuries-old Christian art to interrogate the ‘daytime horrors’ of Australia todayGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe heroes of Ryan Presley’s latest paintings are often young Aboriginal women and men, casually dressed in trainers, tees and jeans. Off the canvas, they and their peers might be disproportionately policed, detained and vilified – but in Presley’s work they stand triumphant, heads wreat
  
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• ‘Painting takes me over – like witchcraft’: Jadé Fadojutimi, art’s hottest property

  07-09-2022 19:27
  At just 29, her paintings have already been scooped up by the Tate and auctioned for over £1m. Now she’s thinking even bigger. On the eve of a new exhibition, she talks colour visions and her anime obsession A corrugated metal door rattles open and Jadé Fadojutimi appears. She welcomes me inside, as the sun beats down on the south London industrial estate where she keeps a studio. An extremely stylish dresser, who often poses on Instagram in an outfit coordinated with her pain
  
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• Smeared with mackerel, chased by police: the wild, miraculous art of Carolee Schneemann – review

  07-09-2022 19:18
  Barbican, London
  Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope of a phenomenal artistThe semi-naked performers writhe about the floor, getting lewd and intimate with the dead mackerel, hotdogs, plucked chickens and other offerings being strewn among them by someone wearing an apron. There seems to be a lot of wet paint and plastic tarp lubricat
  
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• So Richard III was a good guy? Really? The Lost King: Imagining Richard III – review

  07-09-2022 15:29
  Wallace Collection, London
  The standout exhibit is Paul Delaroche’s painting of the two princes the monarch jailed awaiting death. Why does this vogue-ishly pro-Richard show, a tie-in with the Steve Coogan film, place a question mark over it?It’s always unwise to assume today’s history is better than yesterday’s. Interpretations change, and the current vogue for seeing Richard III, so long portrayed as a tyrant, as a nice guy who somehow lost track of his nephews’ w
  
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• Barack and Michelle Obama to return to White House for unveiling of portraits

  07-09-2022 14:57
  The Obamas opted not have a ceremony to unveil the paintings while Donald Trump was presidentBarack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, will return to the White House on Wednesday for the unveiling of their official portraits, hosted by Joe Biden some five years after the former president left office.Large, formal portraits of presidents and first ladies adorn walls, hallways and rooms throughout the White House. Customarily, a former president returns for the unveiling during his successor&rsqu
  
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• ‘The Guardian? What are you doing here?’ My odyssey through England’s cultural cold spots

  07-09-2022 07:00
  What’s it like to be an artist in a place deemed in need of cultural levelling up? Our writer meets a Nuneaton couple with big hub dreams, finds a DIY ethos alive in Chatham and has a Blade Runner moment with a painter from Stockton-on-TeesAlisha Miller is recalling the time the Abbey theatre, the heart of arts and culture in Nuneaton, set up a weekly gathering for all the creatives who lived in the Midlands market town. “I had this vision of me being like Francis Bacon talking to ot
  
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