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• Turner prize 2023 review: bring on the contenders – and the zombie apocalypse

  27-09-2023 14:52
  
  Towner EastbourneThe art of Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim will make you laugh, cry and possibly yawn as they confront the dystopian crisis we’re inWhat a dreadful fix we are in, socially, environmentally, politically. You name it. What now seems worth doing or making as an artist – to respond or not to our dystopian crisis, is the big question. You don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This year’s Turner prize show, at the Towner Eastbourne
  
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• Rubens & Women review – ‘Naked breasts moved him religiously’

  27-09-2023 13:10
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonFrom nuns to nobles, the Flemish artist loved painting unclothed women. But, as this staggering exhibition reveals, there’s so much more to him than frolicking nudesMaria Serra Pallavicino is a queen. Technically she’s a Marchesa. But no one could look more monarchical here, in the painting by Peter Paul Rubens. She looks down imperiously from the throne where she sits swathed in silver, with an impossibly huge ruff collar of floating filigree lace ting
  
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• Director of Development – Paper Mill Playhouse

  27-09-2023 06:00 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityPaper Mill Playhouse, the nation’s premier musical theater, located in Millburn, NJ, seeks an energetic, collaborative, and experienced leader to join their team as Director of Development. This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented fundraising professional to advance the work of the skilled team that is in place and bring a beloved institution into its next chapter of achievement. The successful candidate will be skilled at conceptualizing, organizing, and impleme
  
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• Frans Hals review – boring, lifeless portraits with flamboyant facial hair

  27-09-2023 01:01
  
  National Gallery, London
  Comprehensive collection of the 17th-century painter’s work aims to place him alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, but his technically brilliant paintings are weirdly soullessThe National Gallery has put together what must be the most comprehensive array of the portraits of the 17th-century painter Frans Hals ever assembled, filling eight rooms on the museum’s main floor with a subtly lit splendour of black silk, white ruffs and orange flags. I was bored rigid.Ri
  
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• In Early America, Settlers Had To Make Up A Lot Of Words

  27-09-2023 00:01 via laphamsquarterly.org
  
  Much of the landscape of North America was new to the English, so many early word inventions applied to the natural world. Often these simply combined a noun with an adjective: backcountry, backwoods (and backwoodsman), back settlement, pine barrens, canebrake, salt lick, foothill, underbrush, bottomland, cold snap. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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