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• Board masters: artists’ palettes as works of art – in pictures

  28-09-2024 18:00
  From Piet Mondrian’s plain white smudge to the vivid flourishes of Egon Schiele, the palettes artists use to create their masterpieces are mysterious, vibrant creations in their own right (Picasso’s palette from 1961 recently fetched £56,250 at auction despite being made of cardboard). Fifty of these small artworks, smeared with their owners’ personalised spectrum of paint, have now been collected in a new book, many of them for the first time. “A palette is both a
  
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• China Wilson shares the best DEI practices to impact students

  28-09-2024 16:49 via artsjournal.com
  China Wilson, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, shares key best practices in DEI for impacting students.
  
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• ‘Is this landscape fictitious or does it exist?’: Davide Pitetti’s best phone photo

  28-09-2024 11:00
  
  The Italian photographer got more than just lunch when his visit to a cafe turned into a self-portrait opportunity with a novel backdropThe hilltop Roman town of Vasto, in southern Abruzzo, overlooks the Adriatic Sea. Seen here is the view from the Loggia Amblingh, a path along the medieval walls that still stand today. Except, that’s not quite what is pictured.Davide Pitetti was indeed in Vasto’s old town; that morning he had completed a wallpapering job for a local c
  
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• Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  28-09-2024 07:00
  
  Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord MuckMegalopolis
  Out nowFrancis Ford Coppola’s incredible back catalogue (The Godfather! Apocalypse Now!) means a new FFC joint is always going to be a must-watch, regardless of the quality of some of the more recent work (Tetro, Youth Without Youth). This sprawling sci-fi stars Adam Driver as a visionary architect who locks horns with the dodgy mayor of a vast futuri
  
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