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• Letter: Tom Phillips obituary

  19-12-2022 18:12
  I was at the Henry Thornton grammar school in Clapham, south-west London, with the artist Tom Phillips and we became close friends, swapping passions and enthusiasms: his for painting and mine for cinema, and mutually music. He was undoubtedly the cleverest person at the school, with such a range of interests that it was difficult to keep pace with them. He was restless and loved challenges, telling me once that he chose to learn the bassoon simply because he had been told it was the most diffic
  
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• The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution

  19-12-2022 15:00
  Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’Dust motes, it turns out, are born performers. They have humble staging requirements, too. Just give them an eye-high beam of light and a dark room and they’ll spin, sparkle, prance and pirouette so energetically that, says Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno, “people come to me and say, ‘Wh
  
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• Iced gems: art, books, music and more to keep the home fires burning this winter

  19-12-2022 11:00
  From storm-tossed seascapes to skating on the Thames, our cultural critics select wintry wonders for the season’s dark days
  Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play secret lovers in Carol, Todd Haynes’s sumptuous 2015 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s semi-autobiographical novel The Price of Salt. In 1950s Manhattan, Therese (Mara) is an aspiring photographer working in the toy section of a department store for the Christmas season. There, she meets the glamorous Carol (Blanchett),
  
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• Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global

  19-12-2022 09:01
  Freed from the shadow of 9/11, the country’s artists are building on a rich heritage – to international acclaimIn August, Pakistan’s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq’s award-winning film Joyland for release. Shot in Lahore, the film is about a young married man from a conservative family who finds work at a dance theatre and falls in love with a trans woman struggling to land her moment on stage. It was the first Pakistani film to screen at Cannes and it won the Un
  
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• Pope Francis orders Parthenon marbles held by Vatican be returned to Greece

  19-12-2022 01:51
  Three 2,500-year-old pieces will be ‘donated’ to Greece’s Archbishop Ieronymos II amid wider conversation about future of Parthenon marbles held by BritainPope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for two centuries.The Vatican said in a brief statement that the pope was giving them to Archbishop Ieronymos II, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church and Greece’s spi
  
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