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• ‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods

  16-09-2023 18:00
  
  Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in OxfordshireWhen the war comic was at the height of its popularity, titles included Battle, Warlord, Valiant, the Hotspur and the pocket-sized Commando, which is still published today.Many of the stories published in the 1950s and 1960s relayed the gung-ho heroics of plucky British troops, often up against the odds, fighting two-dimensional German foes who routinely barked phrases
  
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• Fragile, fantastical designs in cardboard – in pictures

  16-09-2023 18:00
  
  Daniel Agdag began working with cardboard after seeing his architect neighbour use it to mock up designs. The Melbourne-based artist and film-maker was struck by its ability to resemble timber or steel. “Cardboard gave me means to realise ideas I had only imagined previously,” he says. His latest series is Tide Houses, a collection of spare structures on stilts. “The narratives that feed my work tend to stem from my subconscious. The pieces are like mathematical problems, which
  
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• Patricia Mooradian talks about moving the historic Jackson House to Greenfield Village

  16-09-2023 16:56 via artsjournal.com
  Patricia Mooradian, President & CEO of The Henry Ford, talks about The Jackson House, its historical importance and incorporating it into Greenfield Village.
  
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• ‘Drawing was her center of gravity’: another side of sculptor Ruth Asawa

  16-09-2023 12:15
  
  The artist, best-known for elaborate wire sculptures, has a new exhibition at the Whitney highlighting lesser-known drawings“Drawing, always, was the through line.” So concludes Whitney curator Kim Conaty in her introductory essay to the catalogue for the exhibition Ruth Asawa Through Line, which she co-curated with the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. Among other things, Ruth Asawa Through Line seeks to demonstrate the centrality of the daily practice of drawing to both Asawa&rsq
  
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• ‘In the depths of the city labyrinth, here he was’: Tamás Andok’s best phone picture

  16-09-2023 11:00
  
  The photographer had given up on his quest to capture a poetic moment of city life when he came across a solitary figureBudapest has three train stations that, between them, can take you to Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich, Berlin and Bucharest (to name but a few). Nyugati Pályaudvar is Hungary’s busiest station, with its peaked glass facade bookended by ornate domed buildings. Inside, cafes and commuters jostle for space, but nearby lies a closed-up line, almost derelict.Tamás Andok h
  
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• From A Haunting in Venice to Sex Education: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  16-09-2023 07:00
  
  Kenneth Branagh twirls his moustache once more in this new Agatha adaptation, and the no-shame high-school comedy returns for one final outingA Haunting in Venice
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  Based on Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party, this new Poirot yarn, with Kenneth Branagh featuring again as the Belgian detective, is set in the atmospheric version of Venice familiar from the likes of Don’t Look Now, with the kind of stacked cast that makes the Knives Out films so watchable (in this case
  
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• Inaugural Managing Director, Music of Remembrance

  16-09-2023 06:00 via artsjournal.com
  Leading new work commissioner seeks an entrepreneurial leader to serve as its first Managing Director.Music of Remembrance invites applications from arts management leaders interested in providing strategic and collaborative leadership in the inaugural role of Managing Director.WHO ARE WE?Music of Remembrance (MOR) is a Seattle-based performing arts organization focused on addressing questions of human rights and social justice. Established in 1998 to ensure that voices of witness to the Holocau
  
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• How Putin Eliminated Theatre In Russia

  16-09-2023 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  New legislation has banned the use of obscenity in literary texts, theatre and cinema. They’ve also censored blasphemy, forbidden the promotion of “non-traditional” (a euphemism for LGBTQ+) family values to anyone under 18, outlawed any public expression of disrespect towards people or symbols representing the authorities and forbidden the representation of historical events. – The Conversation
  
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