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Just what is phygital art, and why is Dubai going big on it?

Egypt Independent 29 May 2023
In 2021 the Firetti Contemporary gallery held an exhibition called “NFT/ IRL” (in real life), displaying physical artworks next to their digital counterparts; The Mondoir Gallery recently opened in downtown Dubai, specializing in NFTs and embracing phygital, while the Theatre of ...
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Peter Rabbit hops into Beijing's UCCA Lab

China Daily 29 May 2023
... from the Peter Rabbit series, present the audience with the idyllic country scenery depicted by Beatrix Potter and inform them of the author’s legendary life stories,” said You Yang, deputy director of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, in his remarks at the opening ceremony.
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Peter Rabbit hops into Beijing’s UCCA Lab

China Daily 29 May 2023
... from the Peter Rabbit series, present the audience with the idyllic country scenery depicted by Beatrix Potter and inform them of the author’s legendary life stories,” said You Yang, deputy director of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, in his remarks at the opening ceremony.
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Macready! Dickens' Theatrical Friend

British Theatre Guide 28 May 2023
... of working that paved the way for contemporary practices ... Macready may be amongst the least celebrated of his illustrious contemporaries, but in presenting his life, Stratford also tells a timeless story of struggle, perseverance and sacrifice in making a living from one’s art.
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New book ‘Last On His Feet’ captures brilliantly boxer Jack Johnson and the Battle of ...

Lima Ohio 28 May 2023
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates once called it “the drama of life in the flesh.” ... The pair center their story of Johnson’s life on a 1910 championship fight in Reno, Nevada ... This is a great American story, it echoes across the contemporary landscape ... to live my life like a man.
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ANC’s failures, coalition politics in spotlight amid cholera crisis

Independent online (SA) 28 May 2023
By Professor Bheki Mngomezulu ... Those who died fighting for freedom did so with the hope for a better life for their contemporaries and future generations ... Indeed, there was discernible change in different spheres of life. This was evidenced in the adoption of the country’s Constitution in 1996 in which human rights were enshrined in Chapter 2.
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Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future

Off Guardian 28 May 2023
The basis to this practice was the belief — which the readings would explore and reaffirm — that poetry is a spoken art in which we best participate collectively, and that only in this way could its values be first discovered and then conjured back into the alienation and interiority of contemporary life.
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The challenge of rehangs: galleries wrestle with changing politics of art

The Observer 28 May 2023
Marianne Stokes’s 1899 work, A Fisher Girl’s Light (A Pilgrim of Volendam Returning from Kevelaer), depicts a workaday scene in a poor girl’s life from a female artist’s perspective. What is more, the gallery is now boasting that, overall, half the contemporary works on show are by women.
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Should We Psychoanalyze Our Presidents?

The Atlantic 28 May 2023
However irresistible the temptation to burrow into the inner life of kings, prime ministers, and tycoons, he wouldn’t analyze famous contemporaries from afar ... A Psychological Study , has a life and afterlife nearly as complicated and fascinating as its subject.
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Tunisia.. The return of the days of Carthage after being hidden for three years

The Eastern Herald 27 May 2023
Al-Asaad Saeed, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Cultural Affairs, felt that the current edition of Carthage Contemporary Art Days is a return to life and art after its invisibility due to the Corona pandemic, stressing that this event sheds light on a territory which ...
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REVIEW - Famed US Diplomat Henry Kissinger Celebrates 100th Birthday as Geopolitical Work Continues

Urdu Point 27 May 2023
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 27th May, 2023) Former US Secretary of State and prominent geopolitical thinker Henry Kissinger turns 100 years old on Saturday, as his contributions to contemporary political discourse and the field of international relations continue following a storied life and career.
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‘La Chimera’ Review: Josh O’Connor Is Superb as a Haunted Man in Alice Rohrwacher’s Beguiling ...

The Hollywood Reporter 27 May 2023
The three films make up an informal trilogy — set in the regions of Tuscany and Umbria where Rohrwacher was born and grew up — about the delicate thread between life and death, present and past. The latter remains very much alive almost everywhere you look in Italy, an ancient specter with a long reach extending into contemporary life.
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Church Calendar

Sulphur Springs News-Telegram 27 May 2023
Image. Church Calendar. Body. Week of May 27. To add your regular church event or special service to the weekly church calendar, email don@ssnewstelegram.com or call 903-885-8663 ... EVENTS. Monday. „ Christian Initiation Sessions are held Mondays at 6.30 p.m. at St ... Wednesday ... (Ignite Contemporary Service in the Ignite Worship Center-Family Life Center) or 11.
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Call to develop ICT infrastructure

Gulf Daily News 26 May 2023
... sustainable development goals and improving the quality of life.

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