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• South Korean convenience stores preserved in ink – in pictures

  10-02-2024 18:00
  
  In 1997, after moving to the South Korean countryside from Seoul, artist Lee Me Kyeoung came across a “beautifully dilapidated” old convenience store in her neighbourhood and was compelled to paint it. The two months it took her to complete the drawing, using ink pens, was such a “joyful experience” that she decided to seek out more. “These small, old mom-and-pop stores were more than just places to buy goods, they were essential to the community,” she says, b
  
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• On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights

  10-02-2024 16:00
  
  The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriterDave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970, raised in Illinois and now lives in San Francisco with his wife, the novelist Vendela Vida, and their two children. He is the author of many books for adults and children, among them The Circle, What Is the What, The Every and The Eyes and the Impossible. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, a nonprofit, independent publishing c
  
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