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• The big picture: all of Birmingham’s human life is here

  13-04-2024 17:00
  
  Claire Douglass’s giant vista of ‘late-stage capitalism in frightening times’ features many city notables, including Joe Lycett clutching a carrier bagIf you look hard, in a Where’s Wally kind of way, at artist Claire Douglass’s fabulous painted imagining of Birmingham street life, you will find our guest editor, Joe Lycett. He’s in a rainbow-coloured coat, clutching a Tesco bag. Speaking about Douglass’s last large-scale canvas – that one a distin
  
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• On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

  13-04-2024 16:00
  
  The comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney SpearsBorn in Ontario, Canada in 1983, comedian Katherine Ryan won the Funny Women award in 2008. Since then she has appeared on numerous TV sitcoms and panel shows including Taskmaster and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She has two Netflix standup specials, In Trouble and Glitter Room, and in 2020 created Netflix comedy series The Duchess. She has won the outstanding female comedy entertainment performance award at
  
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• Revealed: the picture sneaked by employee into a German gallery

  13-04-2024 14:27
  
  Technician, who hung his own picture in an exhibition about art world glitches, has been sacked and given a three-year banThe first picture that greeted visitors to the first-floor exhibition space in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne gallery on 23 February may not have immediately grabbed their attention.The 60cm by 120cm artwork was a retro-looking photograph of a family of four, with the background and parts of the faces and bodies roughly painted over in white. It was unassuming compared
  
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• Revealed: the artwork sneaked into a German gallery by an employee – and the story behind it

  13-04-2024 14:27
  
  Technician, 51, who hung his own picture in an exhibition about art world glitches, has been sacked and given a three-year banThe first picture that greeted visitors to the first-floor exhibition space in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne gallery on 23 February may not have immediately grabbed their attention.The 60cm by 120cm artwork was a retro-looking photograph of a family of four, with the background and parts of the faces and bodies roughly painted over in white. It was unassuming comp
  
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• Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

  13-04-2024 12:55
  
  Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and newOn 26 April 1937 the Basque town of Guernica was bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe and the Italian Legionary Air Force. Picasso, a Spanish artist settled in Paris, paid homage to the killed with this cubist history painting. Moments of revelation punch through the jagged may
  
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• ‘The lone hand prompts us to ask what is going on behind the curtain’: Callie Eh’s best phone picture

  13-04-2024 11:00
  
  The photographer was in Nepal when she happened upon a wedding ceremony and a once-in-a-lifetime imageJoyful, dancing wedding guests were following a ceremonial procession and car through the streets of Bhaktapur, Nepal, when Callie Eh happened upon them. The Malaysian photographer was in the country for a photography workshop.“I try to attend them every year or so,” says Eh, who now lives in Switzerland. “I can improve on existing skills and learn new ones,
  
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• From Back to Black to Blue Lights: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  13-04-2024 07:00
  
  Sam Taylor-Johnson brings us her Amy Winehouse biopic, and the cracking Belfast police drama returns for a second seriesBack to Black
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  Sam Taylor-Johnson teams up with Matt Greenhalgh, who penned Joy Division biopic Control, for a portrait of another music icon who died under tragic circumstances. Rather than focus on Winehouse’s untimely death, this film takes a character-driven approach that puts her music first and foremost. Continue reading...
  
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• FringeArts seeks CEO & Producing Director

  13-04-2024 06:38 via artsjournal.com
  The Chief Executive Officer and Producing Director (CEO & PD) will drive the organization’s next level of growth through a strategic evolution that enhances FringeArts’ impact and reach. The CEO & PD will serve as the ambassador for the organization locally, nationally, and internationally and will passionately articulate its vision of elevating Philadelphia as a primary nexus for cultural conversation, progressive ideas, and innovative performance art creation. Reporting to
  
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• Harry Burleigh’s “Deep River” of Common Humanity on NPR

  13-04-2024 06:16 via artsjournal.com
  
  If you’ve ever heard Marian Anderson sing “Deep River,” you’ve heard an immortal concert spiritual by Harry Burleigh. His name won’t appear
  
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• Non-Profit Journalism Is Growing. But Where’s The Audience?

  13-04-2024 00:01 via poynter.org
  
  “Journalists are not very good marketers. They do a story they are excited about and think most people in the addressable audience will want to read it — maybe 60%. No, that’s way high. More likely 10%.” – Poynter
  
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