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• Artful embroideries of everyday products – in pictures

  22-10-2022 18:00
  Polish artist Alicja Kozłowska has always been addicted to handicrafts. “From an early age I experimented with fabric; learning and testing techniques such as crochet and patchwork.” Since 2017 she’s combined that love of craft with a fascination with pop art to create Embroidered Ordinariness, a set of felt and embroidery versions of mass-produced items. Kozłowska is inspired by Andy Warhol and her Warholesque felt banana skin sculpture was the first piece she exhibi
  
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• Vernese Edgehill-Walden talks about the role of the arts on inclusion

  22-10-2022 17:33 via artsjournal.com
  Vernese Edghill-Walden, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer of Northern Illinois University, talks about the role the arts play in diversity and inclusion.
  
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• John Lydon’s handwritten Sex Pistols lyrics sell for over £50,000

  22-10-2022 13:16
  Lyrics were in collection of artwork, posters and documents sold at auction for total of £354,567A sheet of handwritten lyrics by the Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has sold at auction for more than £50,000 in a special sale of memorabilia from the infamous UK punk band.The page features original working lyrics to two of the band’s hit singles, Holidays in the Sun and Submission, which are believed to have been written by Lydon, known as Johnny Rotten, in 1977. Continue readin
  
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• ‘It’s really desperate’: cost of living crisis spells bleak times for British arts venues

  22-10-2022 13:00
  Many in the UK’s creative sector are being hit hard by rising fuel costs and reluctant audiencesWhen Sarah Munro was first appointed director of one of Britain’s biggest art galleries, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, she would joke about sticking a tidal mill on its side to make the most of its location on the river Tyne in Gateshead.Seven years on, amid an escalating fuel price crisis, the cost of heating the cavernous building is no joke – and neither is the tidal ene
  
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• ‘It is like revisiting my childhood in vivid, high definition’: Gerry Brakus’s best phone picture

  22-10-2022 11:00
  While taking shots of her daughter during a holiday in France, memories of the photographer’s own youth flooded backIt was a stiflingly hot day in the south of France and editor and photographer Gerry Brakus and her 15-year-old daughter, Honor, had gone indoors to cool off. Along with her husband – the couple are both half English, half French – and beloved dog Rudy, the cavapoo, they were holidaying near Avignon. “I spent a lot of my own childhood in France,” Braku
  
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• From The Banshees of Inisherin to Taylor Swift: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  22-10-2022 07:00
  A black Irish comedy or the return of country-pop’s finest? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days Decision to Leave
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  When a man’s body is found at the foot of a mountain just outside Busan, police inspector Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) starts to suspect the dead man’s beautiful widow Seo-rae (Tang Wei). The brilliant Park Chan‑wook (Oldboy, Stoker) riffs on Hitchcock’s Vertigo in this elegant murder mystery. Continue reading...
  
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• Production Manager- South Coast Repertory

  22-10-2022 06:05 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Production Manager for South Coast Repertory is a member of the executive staff and is directly responsible to the Artistic Director and the Managing Director. The Production Manager functions as the supervisor for all areas of production including long-range and season planning and scheduling, budgeting, allocating resources, contracting employees and designers, monitoring progress of all production elements while maintaining high standards for all productions.
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• When The Stories We Tell About History Change… An Existential Crisis

  22-10-2022 00:01 via aeon.co
  Though the true past is fixed and unrevisable, stories about that past are not. Palaeontologists understand these stories as theories, but their audiences often experience them in the same ways they would experience fictional tales – as narratives that shift with mood and politics and time.  – Aeon
  
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• Brisbane-based Indigenous art collective proppaNOW wins prestigious global prize

  22-10-2022 00:00
  Curator at school which awards Jane Lombard Prize says the artists’ work would ‘galvanise arts and social justice communities’ in New YorkGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email
  Indigenous Australian art collective proppaNOW has won a prestigious prize that will take them to New York next year after the selecting jury found their practices would serve as “models for political empowerment throughout the world”.But don’t expect traditional Aboriginal artwork
  
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