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• Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles

  28-11-2024 15:00
  
  From union banners to sewn sculptures, a major new exhibition in Adelaide celebrates the emotional and revolutionary force of textilesGet Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle emailWoven, threaded, stitched and sewn, textile practice predates all recorded history; in fact some anthropologists speculate that textiles – made for warmth and shelter – may have been humanity’s first technology.Manual textile-making has historically been a communal process, too, pr
  
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• Keeping Time review – ravishing timepieces tell you to make love, be happy and face down the reaper

  28-11-2024 14:24
  
  Wallace Collection, London
  In this scintillating show, André-Charles Boulle’s sumptuous clocks invite you into an extravagant world of sensuality and dreamsThinking about time can make you despair. In art, it often turns up as a reminder of death. Yet walking into the Wallace Collection’s ravishing display of early 18th-century clocks by André-Charles Boulle, you find out that it can be joyous after all. There are no brooding images of mortality and Judgment day here, j
  
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• ‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

  28-11-2024 11:00
  
  The earth-brick barn house nestled among cassava and yam fields in southern Nigeria is one of two artists’ residences established by the British-Nigerian artistPerched on a hilltop and surrounded by a lush 22-hectare (54-acre) farm, the G.A.S. Farm House outside the village of Ikiṣẹ in southern Nigeria is not your average place for an artist residency. For Kosisochukwu Nnebe, who works at the intersection of food and art, it’s the ultimate retreat.The 31-year-old Nigerian
  
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• ‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich

  28-11-2024 09:00
  
  Highly decorated skin is everywhere these days, but tattoos have a more elevated pedigree than you may think. A new book aims to make us think differently about Victorian aristocrats … and bank managersIn an age in which it appears impossible to walk down the high street every summer without being confronted by countless examples of inked flesh, you may be inclined to think that tattoos are no longer associated with the underground, or indeed the underclass. But the history of the practic
  
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• North Carolina Symphony seeks Director of Communications

  28-11-2024 06:59 via artsjournal.com
  North Carolina Symphony is seeking a communications professional skilled in strategic storytelling, social media, press outreach, video production, and email communications for the performing arts. Explore this opportunity to support one of the nation’s most vital orchestras in one of the most desirable locations. Music Director Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the North Carolina Symphony in an exciting era of artistic vitality and robust community service.MORE
  
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• To not know if you will ever be safe is torture. Labor’s deportation laws are cruel | Mostafa Azimitabar

  28-11-2024 02:59
  Trauma is a friend of mine. I’m healing myself through the connection I have with many amazing Australians A couple of days ago I heard that the Labor government is seeking the power to deport non-citizens under its controversial migration bills. I’m really worried. So many refugees and asylum seekers are also worried about what these new laws will mean for us. Who will be deported and when? We already have no real security and this latest political gamesmanship makes us worry even m
  
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