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• Barb Chaffer Authier talks about the dual priorities of artists and audiences

  29-06-2024 16:42 via artsjournal.com
  Barb Chaffer Authier, Marketing Director of The Ark, talks about their dual priorities of artists and audiences and creating the space where they meet.
  
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• On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

  29-06-2024 16:00
  
  The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the deadBorn in Cambridge in 1957, Simon McBurney is an actor, playwright, and theatre and opera director. In 1983 he co-founded the theatre company Complicité, which has put on productions such as the award-winning The Encounter, A Disappearing Number, A Dog’s Heart, and 2022’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. McBurney’s fil
  
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• Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s due

  29-06-2024 16:00
  
  The artist and writer is celebrated in a new UK show – but why was a woman of such talent so little known in her lifetime, asks her cousin?Almost 20 years ago I travelled 5,000 miles to meet my father’s cousin, who had been estranged from our family for 70 years. Back then, Leonora Carrington – though feted in her adoptive country, Mexico – was barely known in her native Britain. She had been as neglected by the art world in general as by her country, and our family.Two d
  
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• ‘Reminder we are all humans’: Glastonbury’s Terminal 1 shows dark side of arriving in UK

  29-06-2024 15:58
  
  Installation shows experiences of immigration for many as politicians try to exploit issue in run-up to electionGlastonbury live – latest updatesYou approach a desk and are met by two stern immigration officials. A line of instructions and questions are barked at you: “Stand shoulder to shoulder”; “Look me in the eyes”; “Are you British?”This is the welcome visitors receive at Terminal 1, a new area at this year’s Glastonbury festival ran by artist
  
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• Perimenopause finally gets more attention – because there’s something in it for men | Arwa Mahdawi

  29-06-2024 15:00
  
  Celebrities have spoken up about their experiences – and Silicon Valley types learned ovaries may hold the key to long lifeIf you had asked 20-year-old me to explain what “perimenopause” was, I would have stared at you blankly. Honestly, I would have struggled to even tell you much about menopause. It was never a mainstream topic of conversation and studies have found most women were never educated about it. Indeed, I’m pretty sure I learned far more at school about Henry
  
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• ‘It’s the quagmire of teenage existence - vulnerability with confidence’: Denise Marcotte’s best phone picture

  29-06-2024 11:00
  
  The photographer updates her 80s teen series, capturing young people in their bedroomsIn the late 80s and early 90s, Denise Marcotte had a project photographing teens in their bedrooms. Decades later, with a teenage son of her own, the Massachusetts-based photographer decided to revisit the subject. Back then she used a Fujica 6x9 film camera with a tripod; this time she used an iPhone.“There is nothing that makes a teenager feel more comfortable than an iPhone,” Marcotte says.
  
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• Kinds of Kindness to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  29-06-2024 07:00
  
  Yorgos Lanthimos teams up with Emma Stone for the third time in this off-kilter and provocative tale, while Emma Myers leads the new YA drama adaptation from Holly Jackson’s smash-hit novelKinds of Kindness
  Out nowYorgos Lanthimos is, simply put, one of the best directors working today, fearlessly bringing his off-kilter visions of everything from dating to monarchy to misogyny to the big screen with characteristic biting wit and dark humour. His latest is a provocative triptych starring E
  
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• By reflecting a world in crisis, art can be a powerful part of the climate solution

  29-06-2024 02:00
  
  Artists can open hearts and minds to inspire environmental action, and help grieve the loss and damage already inflictedChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] Climate Guardians appeared in Westernport Bay in southern Victoria in February 2021, standing in solidarity with the locals protesting plans by e
  
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• Getting Real With Art (What Matters)

  29-06-2024 00:01 via harpers.org
  
  The Real that art helps us come into contact with is something far more slippery, and far closer to what Walter Benjamin called the “true surrealist face of existence.” – Harper’s
  
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