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• ‘It shouldn’t be a bucket list place’: these people went to Antarctica. They hope you don’t

  08-08-2024 17:00
  As Antarctic tourism grows, so does the environmental impact. Now scientists and artists who work on the continent hope to encourage us to admire from afar“If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart,” the Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton once wrote, after one of his many (at least seven) trips to the continent. “Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it shou
  
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• Fourth new Banksy artwork stolen in London hours after it appeared

  08-08-2024 16:38
  
  Another animal-based work appeared on Rye Lane in Peckham, one of a series completed in the capital this weekBanksy’s latest animal-themed artwork has been stolen from London just hours after it went on display.The latest piece is a stencil of a wolf howling towards the sky, painted on what appears to be a satellite dish on top of a building on Rye Lane in Peckham, south-east London. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We invest in artists as changemakers’: using art to help increase US voter participation

  08-08-2024 09:10
  
  Michelle Obama’s non-partisan organization When We All Vote has partnered with Art for Change for a new collection of artwork aimed at enhancing voter turnoutEverything is politics, so the saying goes, and never more so during an election year. With its newest collection, Art for Change is taking the “everything” one step further.Since 2018, Art for Change has curated programs of online sales and exhibitions to raise money for a number of charities. Ahead of the 2024 presidenti
  
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• Archibald prize 2024: Marcia Langton portrait wins people’s choice award

  08-08-2024 03:34
  
  Angus McDonald wins people’s choice category for second time, after his 2020 portrait of human rights campaigner Behrouz BoochaniThe artist Angus McDonald has won the 2024 Archibald prize people’s choice category for his portait of Indigenous rights leader and academic Marcia Langton.McDonald, a seven-time Archibald finalist, is just the fifth artist ever to win the $5,000 people’s choice category more than once, having also won it in 2020 for his portrait of human rights campa
  
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