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• ‘We should all try to be this sexy cockatoo’: a voluptuous sculpture’s ode to Australiana

  07-01-2023 20:00
  In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Que Minh Luu shows us the supremely kitschy sculpture that makes her feel ‘almost patriotic’Read more wall stories hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFor years, an “utterly absurd and totally sexy” sculpture located in her in-laws’ garden captivated Netflix Australia’s director of content, Que Minh Luu: an anthropomorphic ceramic cockatoo with “a solid rack” sitting in repose on a beach tow
  
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• Is 2023 the Year of Anti-Nihilist Gen Z?

  07-01-2023 18:08 via artsjournal.com
  The British magazine Prospect has just published an article making the case — the claim is perhaps a better way to put it — that "2023 could finally hold a salve to the dark, glittery tunnel we’re living inside.” Mixed metaphor aside, good luck with that.
  
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• Balloon animals beyond the poodle – in pictures

  07-01-2023 18:00
  Masayoshi Matsumoto was working as a chemical engineer when he first learned how to make balloon animals. Matsumoto doesn’t use marker pens or tape for details on his creations: every eyeball, feather and claw is made from balloons. Inspired by wildlife photography, his menagerie of creatures includes startlingly detailed hermit crabs, baboons, ants and birds. He says the most difficult animal to make is a pangolin. “Many people imagine a poodle or such when they hear the term balloo
  
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• Karla Donehew Perez talks about the innovative life of a performing artist

  07-01-2023 17:20 via artsjournal.com
  Karla Donehew Perez, founding member of the Catalyst Quartet, Violin Faculty at Longy School of Music of Bard College and New World Symphony Fellow, talks about the innovative life of a performing artist and the New World Symphony’s inclusive programming.
  
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• On my radar: Andrea Elliott’s cultural highlights

  07-01-2023 16:00
  The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist on the art of children’s games, an addictive podcast and the most breathtaking place on EarthBorn in Washington DC in 1972, journalist Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for the New York Times. She was awarded the Pulitzer prize for feature writing in 2007 for her series An Imam in America, and the 2022 Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction for her book Invisible Child. The original 2013 series, about a schoolgirl’s experience of homeles
  
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• ‘The people are almost Lowry-esque’: Matt Writtle’s best phone picture

  07-01-2023 11:00
  The British photographer didn’t want to climb Pulpit Rock in Dorset, but his wife didMatt Writtle wasn’t scared of heights in his youth, but says that over the years he’s become increasingly reluctant to take the risk. As such, the British photographer didn’t make it to the pinnacle of Pulpit Rock, on the Dorset coast, though his wife, Caroline, did. The couple were holidaying with their two young sons, Billy, six, and Thommi, four – a two-week affair of typical Bri
  
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• From Empire of Light to Hunters: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  07-01-2023 07:00
  Between Sam Mendes’s love letter to cinema and Al Pacino hunting Hitler, our critics unpack all the culture you need to keep going for the next seven daysEmpire of Light
  Out 9 January
  Starring the incomparable Olivia Colman plus a host of other national treasures and bright young things, and set on the coast of England in the 1980s, Empire of Light is director Sam Mendes’s ode to the beauty and profundity of the silver screen – the titular Empire being, of course, a cinema.Cont
  
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• President & Chief Executive Officer

  07-01-2023 01:42 via artsjournal.com
  Museum of African American HistoryPresident & Chief Executive OfficerBoston, Massachusetts About the Museum of African American History The Museum of African American History (MAAH) is a premier not-for-profit institution that was established in 1963. It is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving, and interpreting the contributions of African Americans in the 18th and […]
  
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• Saving 100-Year-Old Pianos From The Landfill

  07-01-2023 00:01 via bbc.com
  “Pianos do kind of take on the character of 100 years of playing, you know?” says Tim Vincent-Smith, co-founder of Pianodrome – a project that saves old pianos from ending up in landfill. – BBC
  
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