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• Jeffrey Sposato shares his strategy behind building a music department for the City of Detroit

  12-04-2025 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  Jeffrey Sposato, Chair of Wayne State University’s Department of Music, shares his ethos of building a music department for the City of Detroit.
  
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• ‘Women are better at weighing the risks and rewards’: Aurora Straus on blazing a trail for female racers

  12-04-2025 16:00
  
  The race car driver is drawing attention to the gender imbalance in motorsports – and auction houses – by teaming up with female artists on an ‘art car’ projectWhen the race car driver Aurora Straus first began competing professionally aged 16, she was the only female racer on the tracks in North America. Unsurprisingly, her entry into the male-dominated world of motorsports was not without its sexist challenges. In one incident, while she was being filmed for a documenta
  
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• On my radar: Kit de Waal’s cultural highlights

  12-04-2025 16:00
  
  The award-winning author on the folk musician who inspired her second novel, a Parisian celebration of black artists in France, and the wonder of Whitby AbbeyBorn in Birmingham in 1960, Mandy Theresa O’Loughlin is better known as author Kit de Waal. After a career as a magistrate specialising in adoption and foster care, she studied creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. Her debut novel, My Name Is Leon, was published in 2016, winning the Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award.
  
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• ‘The plane I was supposed to be on passed above me’: Nima Bank’s best phone picture

  12-04-2025 11:00
  
  Losing track of time at the airport made the Iranian-born photographer reflect on how we deal with setbacksNima Bank was meant to be on the plane soaring overhead in this image. Unfortunately, he had been daydreaming in Istanbul airport, enjoying a coffee, and lost track of time. Once he realised his error, and that he would be stranded in the airport for the rest of the day, he says, “I found myself contemplating how a single missed connection could alter a life’s entire t
  
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• From The Return to The Last of Us: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  12-04-2025 07:00
  
  Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second seriesThe Return
  Out nowOdysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up looking like something the cat dragged in after 20 years away at the Trojan wars. Penelope (Juliette Binoche), his wife, has troubles of her own: a bunch of unwelcome suitors plotting to marry her and kill her son. An adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey notable for reuniting the leads of The English Patie
  
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• ‘When I came out of prison, I couldn’t wait to create’: leading artists and inmates team up to break the prison cycle

  12-04-2025 02:00
  
  Blak In-Justice, staged by the Torch and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, features works by Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and Destiny DeaconGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMelissa Bell loves to paint images of water. In her work, blues and greens swim alongside one another in a colourful flow. “I grew up on the river in the backyard,” the artist says. “I was pretty lucky with that, living on country at Cummeragunja on Yorta Yorta, where I’m from. The water was alwa
  
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• ‘Space junk’: huge astronaut statue coming to Perth park is one giant leap too far for many

  12-04-2025 02:00
  
  Council criticised over plan to replace beloved public artwork with 7-metre tall effigy of spaceman created by a former Wall Street traderGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe City of Perth is under increasing pressure to drop its plans to replace one of the city’s most beloved public artworks with a 7-metre tall effigy of an astronaut, which as been derided as a piece of “factory-produced space junk”.Until four years ago, Ore Obelisk, affectionate
  
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• Dobell prize 2025: Australia’s leading prize for drawing – in pictures

  12-04-2025 02:00
  
  The $30,000 biennial Dobell drawing prize is known for pushing the boundaries among Australian artists. Rosemary Lee’s 24-1 – an ‘exploration of the urban landscape and gentrification of the Sydney suburbs of Ashfield and Summer Hill’ – was selected winner from 56 finalists and 965 entries• The finalists of the 2025 Dobell drawing prize will be showing at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney, until 21 May Continue reading...
  
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