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• Note perfect: Ed Atkins’s daily Post-it drawings – in pictures

  22-03-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  In 2020, the English artist Ed Atkins started drawing on Post-it notes and sticking them to his daughter’s school lunchbox. As well as “little hellos”, they were also, amid the power-down of the pandemic, “a way for me to achieve something every day”, says Atkins. Some of the drawings are cute if a bit creepy – a smiley-faced ghost, a bell lifted to reveal a foetal human underneath – while others involving axes and claws might induce nightmares in adults
  
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• ‘The DJ’s focus makes time stand still’: Joshua Hasanoff’s best phone picture

  22-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Quick work + a quirky concept + a cool neighbour = a winning shot for this young Australian photographerJoshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The Australian winter sunset is notoriously fast-moving, so I started preparing for the shoot as soon as I got home,” Hasanoff says. “I knew I’d only have a 20-
  
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• ‘Putting the unvarnished history out there’: art and activism during the Aids crisis

  22-03-2025 09:03 via theguardian.com
  A new series of events and exhibitions aim to remember the art made during a devastating time, centered on the powerful Aids quiltIn the 1980s, while the Aids pandemic ravaged the LGBTQ+ population of the United States, then president Ronald Reagan failed to help. He didn’t even acknowledge the illness existed until 1985, four years into the outbreak, and research has shown that Reagan’s government spent four times as much researching cures for Legionnaire’s disease than HIV (i
  
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• From Flow to Harry Hill: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  22-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A cat survives a watery apocalypse in an Oscar-winning animated treasure, and the veteran comic takes his surreal oddities on tourFlow
  Out nowThis year’s Oscar winner for best animated feature had a cult following even before the Academy ratified its status as something special. This simple, dialogue-free story about a cat surviving in a post-apocalyptic world is one of those treats that appeals in equal measure to children and adults. Continue reading...
  
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• City of Mesa seeks Arts & Culture Director

  22-03-2025 02:11 via artsjournal.com
  The Arts and Culture Director (the Director) will serve on the Executive Team as the cultural diplomat for the City of Mesa and provide leadership and arts education advocacy, direct department-wide fundraising and development, and provide strategic direction for the department, articulating the positive impacts of the arts and culture in and for the city. The Arts and Culture Director, who will report to Mesa’s City Manager’s Office, will function as an arts and culture advisor to t
  
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• Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed

  22-03-2025 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a touristIn a city of trams, there’s one kind that’s really hard to ignore. They make a phenomenal racket as they rattle along down the street. You feel the shrieking brakes in your teeth every time they grind to a stop. And, unlike the sleek-spaceship-modern trams, they look exactly like how you would have drawn a tram when you were six years old.I
  
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