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• Lace-inspired murals celebrating European folk traditions – in pictures

  22-07-2023 18:00
  
  The artist NeSpoon creates lace-patterned murals on the side of buildings across Italy, France, Spain and beyond, inspired by local traditions. ‘Lace patterns can be found everywhere around us – in the calyxes of flowers, in the skeletons of sea creatures, in snowflakes,’ she says. As a child, in the 1980s, NeSpoon lived in West Berlin when the wall was still standing, and its graffiti was one of the inspirations for her to start painting walls herself. Each design is unique, i
  
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• Alex Gonzalez talks about leadership in an ensemble of soloists

  22-07-2023 17:51 via artsjournal.com
  Alex Gonzalez, Concertmaster of the Sphinx Virtuosi and Assistant Professor of Violin at UC Boulder College of Music, discusses leadership in an ensemble of soloists and their debut album on Deutsche Grammophon.
  
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• Even if you hate true crime, you should watch The Sixth Commandment | Rachel Cooke

  22-07-2023 17:31
  
  Timothy Spall’s extraordinary performance lifts this drama, which is more interested in the victims than the killer, to a different levelIt’s hard to imagine better television – more dignified, more noticing – than The Sixth Commandment, which began last week on BBC1.Mostly, I loathe true crime. To make entertainment of the horrifying acts of a Dennis Nilsen or a Jeffrey Dahmer isn’t just gratuitously exploitative; it can only bring more pain to those who loved the
  
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• On my radar: Simon Schama’s cultural highlights

  22-07-2023 16:00
  
  The historian and broadcaster on his favourite new sitcom, a moving art memoir, and why no one beats Anselm KieferThe historian Simon Schama was born in London in 1945. He studied at Cambridge and wrote his first book, Patriots and Liberators, in 1977, though it was with Citizens, his 1989 history of the French Revolution, that he came to wider notice. Alongside a prolific writing career, Schama has made numerous TV series including A History of Britain (2000-2002) and Simon Schama’s Power
  
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• ‘I rotated the shot, then layered on top the silhouette of a passenger’: Brendan Ó Sé’s best phone picture

  22-07-2023 11:00
  
  How the Irish photographer mashed up multiple images from the streets of Seoul, Tokyo and KyotoIn his day job as head of development in the Language Centre of University College Cork, Brendan Ó Sé takes annual trips to Japan for student recruitment. In his free time, he shapeshifts to street photographer, exploring with his iPhone the cities to which he’s been temporarily transplanted. Using the Snapseed app, he created this multilayered image out of three trips: to Seoul (in
  
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• Looted artifacts found in Met trustee’s home were bought ‘in good faith’

  22-07-2023 08:00
  
  Shelby White, collector and benefactor of the prestigious New York art museum, did not knowingly buy stolen antiquities, lawyer saysA major collector of antiquities and benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art took a reputational hit this week as efforts by the Manhattan district attorney to return looted artifacts to their countries of origin moved into high gear.Shelby White is a Met trustee whose name, with that of her late husband, Leon Levy, hangs over the spectacular Greek and Roman Ar
  
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• From Barbie to Grayson Perry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  22-07-2023 07:00
  
  Whether it’s Greta Gerwig’s toy story or a Scottish retrospective of a Turner prize-winning artist, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysBarbie
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  She’s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world, as visualised by Greta Gerwig, the film-maker behind 2019’s zesty reimagining of Little Women. Margot Robbie stars in the role she was born to play, while Ryan Gosling as Ken deliciously reminds us that before he was an Oscar-nominated actor he did a stint as a Disney
  
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• Indigenous art unites Australians in a common cause: abuse of the ocean

  22-07-2023 06:00
  
  The country’s ‘first mining boom’ drove its oyster reefs to near extinction. But a new generation of artists has a voice their ancestors never didMegan Cope calls it the “first mining boom”, one that drove Australia’s oyster reefs to near extinction. First, British colonists raided the enormous piles of shells and animal bones Indigenous people had gathered after feasting and ceremony, mixing these middens with water into a lime slurry for building the new col
  
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• Scientists Develop Whitest Paint Ever (It Can Cool Surfaces)

  22-07-2023 00:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  “We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint. We wanted to help with climate change, and now it’s more of a crisis, and getting worse. We wanted to see if it was possible to help save energy while cooling down the Earth.” – Artnet
  
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