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• Randy Cohen shares the importance of numbers and storytelling when advocating for the arts

  09-03-2024 17:45 via artsjournal.com
  Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research at Americans for the Arts, shares the power of sharing the impact of both stories and numbers in advocating for the arts.
  
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• Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name

  09-03-2024 17:13
  
  Two art collectors are taking legal action against artist over his ‘refusal’ to confirm the authenticity of one of his famous imagesHis identity has long been a matter of speculation and investigation, but Banksy may be forced to reveal his real name if a dispute over a print of the late Queen Elizabeth depicted as a bejewelled primate ends up in court.Two art collectors are taking legal action against the graffiti artist’s company, Pest Control, following its apparent refusal
  
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• TalkTV’s natural home was never going to be on television | Tomiwa Owolade

  09-03-2024 16:00
  
  The station’s moveonline will cater for die-hard viewers who want to watch its content wherever they canDuring school holidays, around 15 years ago, I used to stay up late to watch TV. There were certain channels I would gravitate to. One featured loud and passionate American men and women; so loud, I had to turn the volume down. I didn’t want to wake the neighbours. This was my guilty pleasure.I am talking of Fox News. It certainly wasn’t good for me, the conspiracy-monge
  
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• ‘It was a real carnival of the senses’: Shamil Tanna’s best phone picture

  09-03-2024 11:00
  
  The London-based photographer on capturing the buzz of a festival celebrating Menorca’s purebred horses‘There’s a slight voyeuristic quality to using a phone to take pictures,” Shamil Tanna says. The London-based photographer was in Menorca last summer for Fiestas de Sant Lluìs, a series of events “revolving around the island’s purebred horses and traditional Menorcan dressage”.“I was staying on the island for a while and was keen to shoot s
  
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• From Copa 71 to Ariana Grande: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  09-03-2024 07:00
  
  A new documentary tells the fascinating story of the 1971 unofficial Women’s World Cup, and the pop superstar returns with her first album in four yearsOrigin
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  Ava DuVernay (13th, When They See Us) has a consistent track record of making films that engage subtly with questions of racial identity in the US. This latest is no different: a biopic of the author Isabel Wilkerson (played here by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), during the period that she was writing her nonfiction book Caste: The
  
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