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• Alex Laing talks about leadership in a new era

  14-12-2024 18:24 via artsjournal.com
  Alex Laing, President & Artistic Director of Gateways Music Festival and 2018 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, shares their historic programming as well as his approach to leadership in a new era.
  
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• On my radar: Fran Healy’s cultural highlights

  14-12-2024 16:00
  
  The Travis musician on William Eggleston’s unseen photographs, a superhero show worth watching, and where he likes to eat and drink on the US’s east and west coastsFran Healy was born in Stafford in 1973 and raised in Glasgow. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he joined the band Travis (originally known as Glass Onion), becoming their singer and principal songwriter. They released their first album in 1997 but it was their second, 1999’s The Man Who, that provided t
  
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• ‘It reminds me of my time studying in Paris – it looked glamorous, but was exhausting’: Queenie Cheen’s best phone picture

  14-12-2024 11:00
  
  The Chinese photographer was taken back to her student days by this pensive model on a bus after a shootis now a professional portrait photographer based in China, but she was once a photography student living in Paris, making barely enough money to cover her tuition and living expenses. That is perhaps why she was inspired to take this image.After a decade learning the ropes in France, she returned to China to become an imaging product manager for Vi
  
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• From Queer to Snoop Dogg: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  14-12-2024 07:00
  
  Daniel Craig shakes up his image in a Burroughs adaptation and the veteran rapper reunites with Dr Dre for knowingly titled new album MissionaryQueer
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  Daniel Craig continues to shake up his post-Bond image, here playing an American expat in Mexico City who falls hard for a young ex-Navy guy (Drew Starkey), in this adaptation of William Burroughs’ 1985 autobiographical novella from Luca Guadagnino (Challengers, (Call Me By Your Name). Continue reading...
  
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