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• Meaning of new Banksy series revealed as latest London artwork emerges

  10-08-2024 15:20
  
  Exclusive: secretive artist wants to cheer up people with pelicans, goats, monkeys – and now a black cat on a billboardA big cat by Banksy appeared, poised ready to pounce, on a bare wooden advertising hoarding on Edgware Road in Cricklewood, north-west London, on Saturday.The anonymous artist known as Banksy, who confirmed that the image is his at lunchtime on Saturday, is now also promising a little more summer fun to come. Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy’s week of London artworks – in pictures

  10-08-2024 14:30
  
  The street artist’s murals have appeared across the city this week, beginning with a silhouette of a perching goat on the side of a building near Kew Bridge and culminating in a big cat on Saturday in CricklewoodMeaning of new Banksy series revealed as latest London artwork emerges Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The women are both me’: Heather McAlister’s best phone picture

  10-08-2024 11:00
  
  A mirrored image shows how the photographer uses self-portraiture to explore feminism, motherhood and identityHeather McAlister was staying in a remote California farming community when she took this self-portrait. “We were staying in Tomales, near the Point Reyes national seashore. The landscape is known for its simple farmhouse architecture and green hills lined with windswept cypress trees,” she says. “It’s very serene.”She uses self-portraiture “
  
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• From The Instigators to Bludfest: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  10-08-2024 07:00
  Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in a breezy Bostonian crime caper, while Doncaster’s favourite goth-pop pup, Yungblud, stages his own festivalThe Instigators
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  Matt Damon and Casey Affleck return to their Boston roots for this heist comedy, in which two ne’er-do-wells spot an opportunity to score big bucks by targeting a corrupt politician. When – inevitably – it all goes south, their therapist (Hong Chau) finds herself mixed up in the getaway.Borderlands
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• One Of The Best Dance Exports From The United States Is Having Its Spotlight In The Olympics

  10-08-2024 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Hip-hop first landed in France in 1982, when an elite group of ambassadors from New York City, including … popular breakers the Rock Steady Crew, toured the country. Crowds were often small, but by the time they had left, a contingent of French fans was hooked.” – The New York Times
  
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