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• Little Free Library Plans To Get Banned Books Into The Hands Of The People

  08-09-2024 22:30 via lithub.com
  
  Check the map. “Florida and Texas have the most bans in place, with 2647 and 1469 in place respectively. Thankfully the number of Little Free Libraries is higher in both states: Florida has 2886, and Texas has 2373.”– LitHub
  
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• An Unconventional Approach Can Put The Life Back Into Autobiography

  08-09-2024 22:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  That’s what Janet Malcolm did for Sylvia Plath in 1994, and thirty years later, that’s what Alexis Pauline Gumbs decided on for a new book about poet and essayist, publisher and teacher Audre Lorde. – The Atlantic
  
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• Flood the golf courses, demolish the freeways: what could Melbourne look like in 2070?

  08-09-2024 17:00
  
  The NGV’s first landscape architecture exhibition has invited eight visionaries to picture the future of different sites along Birrarung – the Yarra RiverGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn half a century, should Melbourne’s golf courses be flooded and transformed into wetlands? Could the city’s freeways be replaced with public parks? Will underwater robotic drones have a part to play in ridding our waterways of invasive species?These are some of the questions e
  
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• ‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

  08-09-2024 12:59
  
  Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colourIn 1961, aged 20, Michael Craig-Martin enrolled at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and immediately found himself all at sea.“Back then,” he recalls, “abstract expressionism was still lingering and painting was painterly.
  
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• Put levy on smartphones to help creatives survive AI threat, top UK artists tell Labour

  08-09-2024 10:00
  
  Open letter to culture secretary also proposes ‘freelancers’ commissioner’ to champion cause of the low-paid in creative industriesMore than 4,000 artists have called on the government to create a levy on smartphone sales to fund ­visual art in the face of cuts, studio closures and the rise of generative AI.Creatives including Sir John Akomfrah, Britain’s representative at the Venice Biennale, and Dame Sonia Boyce, the first black woman elected to the Royal Academy of
  
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• Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review

  08-09-2024 10:00
  
  White Cube Mason’s Yard; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
  Puzzling portraits mine the memory in Donna Huddleston’s stylised look at the 70s, while Liorah Tchiprout paints a cast of dolls inspired by women from Yiddish theatreTwo new shows by London-based artists tell stories, or imply backstories, through the art of painting. Both feature the same group of characters. And as so often in today’s contemporary art, these characters are all women.The Irish Australian artist Donna
  
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• The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst

  08-09-2024 08:00
  
  ​The ​Japanese actor turned ​photographer ​seeks an element of chance in her ethereal scenes from everyday life
  International interest in Japanese photography has tended to focus on male photographers; a new book featuring 25 Japanese women practitioners, I’m So Happy You Are Here, aims to redress that balance. The collection takes in the history of Japanese women photographers with particular emphasis on those working from the 1950s to the 1990s.Many of the early s
  
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