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• On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights

  02-11-2024 16:00
  
  The writer and academic on stories and poetry from Gaza, an exhibition of friendship, and the cat rescue website she prefers to dating appsBorn and raised in Pakistan, Noreen Masud is a lecturer in 20th-century literature at Bristol University and an Arts and Humanities Research Council/BBC New Generation Thinker. In 2022 she published the academic monograph Hard Language: Stevie Smith and the Aphorism, and in 2023 A Flat Place (Hamish Hamilton). Part memoir and part travelogue through the UK&rs
  
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• Sally Blandón talks about a Music For All approach to engaging young people

  02-11-2024 15:32 via artsjournal.com
  Sally Blandón, Early Childhood and General Music Program Director at the Merit School of Music, shares the impact of their Music For All approach to programming.
  
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• Up in smoke: the artist who lost 1000 paintings in a house fire

  02-11-2024 14:00
  
  Max Ayres has spent much of his life capturing Lancashire – and himself – without ever selling a painting. Now a blaze has transformed much of his singular body of workMax Ayres has a hole in his head. Well, his self-portrait does. He’d like to fix it, but there’s a great big gash in the canvas. As he steps into his living room, the corner of the ceiling droops down in a great triangle. The walls around him are black. He faces another self-portrait where flames have strip
  
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• ‘I hope it gives a sense of joy’: Mayowa Lawal’s best phone picture

  02-11-2024 11:00
  
  The Nigerian photographer aimed to capture the power of femininity with his part-planned, part-spontaneous image – while leaving plenty open to interpretationThe photographer Mayowa Lawal has lived in Lagos, Nigeria, most of his life. It’s a place he describes as highly influential on his creativity, but he wonders whether his environment has placed some limitations on what, or more specifically who, he captures.“I’ve always found it difficult to have women in front
  
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• From Anora to The Day of the Jackal: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  02-11-2024 07:00
  
  A Palme d’Or-winning comedy, and Eddie Redmayne is a dapper contract killer in a slick new Frederick Forsyth adaptationAnora
  Out nowThe juicy premise of Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning comedy wouldn’t feel out of place in Succession: a Russian oligarch’s son impulsively marries a sex worker (Mikey Madison, in a universally acclaimed performance), teeing up all manner of farcical wrangling. Continue reading...
  
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