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• Literary Magazine The White Review Suspends Publication

  28-09-2023 23:29 via theguardian.com
  
  This comes after the not-for-profit journal’s applications for funding were rejected by Arts Council England for three consecutive years. The charity relied on this funding for “a substantial portion of its annual budget” between 2011-2021, read the statement. – The Guardian
  
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• Lens flair: the 2023 Bowness photography prize – in pictures

  28-09-2023 22:00
  
  Anne Zahalka has won the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness photography prize for her work Kunstkammer, which references the trompe l’oeil (trick of the eye) painting technique to replicate the artists’s studio. Here is a selection of works from other finalists in the Museum of Australian Photography’s prestigious annual survey Continue reading...
  
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• Arkansas moves to install ‘monument to unborn children’ on state grounds

  28-09-2023 21:59
  
  Designs for the commemoration to ‘unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade’ must be turned in by SaturdayArkansas is building a “monument to unborn children” on the grounds of its state capitol, and Saturday marks the last day for its would-be artists to submit prospective designs for it.The monument is planned to commemorate the “unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade”, the 1973 US supreme court decision that legalized abortion natio
  
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• Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters

  28-09-2023 14:53
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behindIn Claudette Johnson’s large drawings of Black women and men, faces and bodies hold you, frozen in poses that seem more significant than words can say, as if each spontaneous expression or gesture were at the same time a studied symbolic act. Reclining Figure, which is arou
  
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• ‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes

  28-09-2023 09:00
  
  A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images“I’m getting old,” cackles Michael Kenna, when I ask how it feels to look back on 50 years in the photography business. “Much wiser,” he says, before cackling again. “I wish.” I’m talking to the English photographer over video from his office in Seattle, Washington, where he is su
  
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