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• Jeanette McCune talks about the positive impact of the arts on mental health

  02-09-2023 17:21 via artsjournal.com
  Jeanette McCune, Senior Director of School and Community Programs at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, shares the breadth of their work in community and the positive impact of the arts on mental health.
  
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• On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights

  02-09-2023 16:00
  
  The Bafta-nominated British actor on the book that broke her heart, a gig to remember with 50,000 Geordies, and Daniel Kaluuya’s new filmHayley SquiresBorn in Forest Hill, London in 1988, actor Hayley Squires’s breakthrough role was in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and best British film at the 2017 Baftas, where Squires was nominated for best supporting actress. Since then she has starred in TV shows including Lucy Kirkwood’s Baf
  
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• Artist captures the impact of climate crisis over 150 years on Mont Blanc

  02-09-2023 15:05
  
  Paintings from a climb that retraced an 1800s route on western Europe’s highest mountain reveals the extent of the peak’s melting iceA British landscape artist who recreated a climb made 150 years ago to document the impact of the climate crisis on western Europe’s highest mountain says what he found was so grim it reminded him of the “dark paintings” of Francisco de Goya.James Hart Dyke ascended Mont Blanc’s ancien passage north face, the route taken in 1786
  
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• Season to be cheerful: 50 autumn arts events to make you forget the nights are drawing in

  02-09-2023 12:55
  
  From outdoor festivals and big-screen spectaculars to binge-watches and thumb-twiddlers, all the TV, theatre, film, art, games, music and more you need to get through to Christmas Continue reading...
  
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• Sung Neung Kyung: ‘All art is fundamentally at least a bit political’

  02-09-2023 12:16
  
  The eccentric79-year-old South Korean performance artist talks about his incredible career and why it’s important to mix the light with the darkWhat is the moral responsibility of the artist? With balding pate, white goatee and mischievous mien, Sung Neung Kyung is sitting in his studio in Seoul, South Korea, looking back half a century to the country’s authoritarian regime and wondering whether, as a radical young artist, he made a difference.“I have to say, thinking back to m
  
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• From Passages to the Pretenders: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  02-09-2023 07:00
  
  Whether it’s a steamy bisexual love triangle or Chrissie Hynde’s eye for acute melodic rock, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysPassages
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  Coasting a sexy wave of controversy after getting slapped with the infamous NC-17 rating in the US, this bisexual love triangle from Ira Sachs isn’t just about the sex scenes – it also happens to boast stellar performances from three of the best actors currently working: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ben Whishaw an
  
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• From Passages to Michael McIntyre: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  02-09-2023 07:00
  
  Whether it’s a steamy bisexual love triangle or a crowdpleasing superstar standup, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysPassages
  Out now
  Coasting a sexy wave of controversy after getting slapped with the infamous NC-17 rating in the US, this bisexual love triangle from Ira Sachs isn’t just about the sex scenes – it also happens to boast stellar performances from three of the best actors currently working: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski
  
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