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Philadelphia sets date for key hearing on controversial ‘comfort women’ statue

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s Art Commission has set Sept. 19 as the date for a public hearing on a controversial proposal to place a statue in the city’s Queen Village section about the suffering imposed on Korean “comfort women” in the year leading up to and including World War II.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Del Kathryn Barton: ‘I was totally unprepared for how much the story would re-trigger me’

The Archibald-winning artist’s debut feature film Blaze is informed by a trauma she experienced as a child. Directing and cowriting it hasn’t come easy

The Guardian - AU

Columbus statues should not return to Grant Park and Little Italy, mayor’s monument commission recommends

It is not clear if the city will follow the recommendations of the Chicago monuments project advisory committee. In May, Mayor Lori Lightfoot hinted strongly at ignoring them.

Chicago Sun-Times

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A Chicago businessman saw some artists painting boarded-up buildings. Here’s what came next.

“So I went up to them and said, ‘This is super-cool. I have a business. I always wanted to have some murals,’ ” David Chaimovitz says. And now he does.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jennifer Bartlett obituary

American painter whose systemic yet figurative artworks defied categorisation

The Guardian - UK

Incredible Edinburgh paintings capture historic royal visit 200 years ago this week

With this week marking two hundred years since King George IV's visit to Edinburgh, we're looking at the stunning oil paintings completed to mark the occasion.

Edinburgh Live

Earth Goddess statue in Cornish town sparks unholy row with church leaders

Sculpture, which is 11.5m high and stands in St Austell town centre, has been deemed an idol that is ‘offensive to God’

The Guardian - UK

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Check Out This Radical XSCI1 Futuristic Motorcycle Concept

The radical XSCI1 motorcycle concept is the brainchild of Mongolian designer Munkhjin Otgonbayar, and isn’t constrained by the laws of physics.

RideApart

Flashing lights, iPhone cameras and racing action – the week in art

There’s a hallucinatory light show and some ‘Bosno-futurism’ in Edinburgh, Leeds honours its West Indian heritage and Robert Wilson shows ‘filmed portraits’ of movie stars and porcupines

The Guardian - UK

Fields of light: an arty Somerset glampsite with glowing gardens and a space pod

Marston Park glampsite is a canvas for budding artists, offering tents with a ‘light garden’, easels, guitars, and live music sets

The Guardian - UK

Illinois, behold: Your 700-pound state fair butter cow is here

The Illinois State Fair’s butter cow is back in all its creamy glory.

Chicago Tribune

Ivo Graham review – bashful posh comic grows up with a skilful new show

Maturity has made the awkward standup more at ease with himself and lent heft and fruitful battle-scarring to his shtick

The Guardian - UK

Cambodia says lost artifacts found in Gallery 249 at the Met

In the 1970s, long after its encyclopaedic collection had been acknowledged as among the world’s finest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognised it had slender holdings in South or Southeast Asian art. One in-house estimate suggested that no more than 60 objects were worth exhibiting.

Bangkok Post

Mick Ashley's new calendar is why we love Canberra

Ashley says the 2023 calendar will contain "quite possibly the most controversial image I've ever done".

The Canberra Times

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Blue Poles park opens in new suburb of Whitlam

The new playground is now open for lots of fun.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Parade of Hearts’ aims to show how South Side communities are healing from the pandemic

“Our hope is that people will be inspired by what they see and encouraged to see a new normal,” said LUV Institute Executive Director Cosette Wilburn.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters target the Vatican's Laocoon statue

Italian environmental activists have staged a second museum protest in as many months

The Independent UK

Famed Iran art museum closes to deal with insect infestation

Tehran’s contemporary art museum has issued an apology for temporarily closing to handle a pest infestation

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The Guardian - UK

Jean-Jacques Sempé obituary

French cartoonist who depicted the adventures of Le Petit Nicolas and produced more than 100 covers for the New Yorker

The Guardian - UK

Cedric Titcombe obituary

Other lives: Painter who created carnivalesque worlds full of raw energy

The Guardian - UK

Kate Day obituary

Other lives: Champion of the arts who was director of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought drink and drugs enabled my creativity’: Julia Cameron on the drama behind The Artist’s Way

When even Hunter S Thompson tells you to take it easy, you must be overdoing it. The bestselling author talks about marrying Martin Scorsese, sobering up, and writing a bestseller

The Hindu

Postcards bear witness to memories of a fateful 1947 day

Simple prompt at ‘March to Freedom’ exhibition brings out untold stories of India’s first Independence Day

The Hindu

Seven South Korean artists from Jeju Island exhibit their work in Chennai

Seven artists from Jeju Island in South Korea tell stories of resilience through varied mediums in this Chennai exhibit

Manchester Evening News

Man buys 'UK's biggest gold chain' and hopes it will be snapped up by Tyson Fury

“I have never seen anything like this, or as big as this, before and we might not see anything like it again. It’s extra special."

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