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• Robert McGrath talks about building a groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement

  12-10-2024 17:09 via artsjournal.com
  Robert McGrath, COO of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, talks about their groundbreaking new collective bargaining agreement incorporating core DE&I best practices.
  
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• Leeds sculpture celebrates 400 women, from suffragists to boxers

  12-10-2024 16:37
  
  Ribbons, by Pippa Hale and initiated by Labour’s Rachel Reeves, bears names of Leeds women past and presentA public sculpture celebrating nearly 400 inspirational women has been unveiled in Leeds.The work by the artist Pippa Hale, titled Ribbons, features the names of women voted for by the public. “It stemmed from this idea of celebrating lots of women, and also naming them,” Hale said. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Try them in different places’ – how and where to hang your pictures

  12-10-2024 11:00
  
  Hanging those artworks isn’t easy, so follow these dos and don’ts to bring the most out from your artWherever you get your pictures, in your mind’s eye you want them to be as expertly hung as the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition. But poorly spaced frames and wonky canvases can spoil the final effect.In the first instance, think about where a piece of art will look its best and the hanging system – picture rail or hooks – that suits your home. Continue
  
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• ‘Children like these are in a battle for their livelihood’: Ziaul Huque’s best phone picture

  12-10-2024 11:00
  
  What the Bangladeshi photographer saw at a city’s garbage dumpThe word Ziaul Huque uses to describe the recent deadly violence against student protesters in his country of Bangladesh is “despicable”.“In the end, the government could not survive by resorting to violence,” says Huque, who was once a university student himself. “History has repeatedly shown that no government can survive for long against a radical movement of students.” How quickly that pol
  
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• ‘I’m waiting for that eureka moment’: I join a £40,000 hunt for some Frieze masterpieces

  12-10-2024 09:00
  
  One hour before the crowds get into the art fair in London, buyers race around all the gallery booths trying to snap up great works. Our writer joins a group of women with a very specific wishlist – and no time for toilet stopsA group of women are gathered around a stunning watercolour, arguing about all the erections it contains. “It’s nothing you wouldn’t see on ancient Greek pottery,” says one. “I think it symbolises freedom,” ventures another. But Ha
  
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• Picture perfect: how to buy art at prices you can afford

  12-10-2024 08:00
  
  Thanks to online galleries and affordable fairs, collecting art is no longer an exclusive club for the well-offThat a Banksy painting is worth more partly shredded than when it was whole can make the art world seem like another planet for “in the know” people with big bank balances. But don’t be put off, it has never been easier to start your own collection.Next week, 20,000 visitors will descend on the Affordable Art Fair (AAF) in London’s Battersea Park and over the fou
  
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• Salem’s Lot to Rivals: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  12-10-2024 07:00
  
  Stephen King’s classic vampire horror is resurrected, and Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster book gets the Disney treatmentSalem’s Lot
  Out nowThis new adaptation of the 1975 novel by Stephen King stars Lewis Pullman (nepo-watch: son of Bill) as writer Ben Mears, who returns to his childhood home town of Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine, hoping inspiration will strike, only to find it providing an all-you-can-drink buffet for a vampire. Continue reading...
  
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