Picasso in Fontainebleau: what happened in the summer of 1921?
Posted on March 26, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Pablo Picasso’s The Spring Fontainebleau, 1921. Photograph: Foto: Moderna Museet/Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkPablo Picasso’s The Spring Fontainebleau, 1921. Photograph: Foto: Moderna Museet/Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkPablo PicassoA new exhibition at MoMA in New York offers a strange selection of differently styled masterworks from the artist
A short train ride from the center of Paris, the town of Fontainebleau is a picturesque tourist destination, widely loved for the rich forest that surrounds it and its magnificent, opulent palace.
[Read More]Stella Moris on her secret family with Julian Assange: Hes unlike anyone I have ever met
Posted on March 26, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Stella Moris with sons Gabriel and Max: ‘I tell them there are some people who don’t want Daddy to come home.’ Photograph: Harry Borden/The GuardianStella Moris with sons Gabriel and Max: ‘I tell them there are some people who don’t want Daddy to come home.’ Photograph: Harry Borden/The GuardianFamilyWhat’s it like raising two boys when their father is wanted by the US? The partner of the WikiLeaks founder tells her story
[Read More]Teen girls are struggling. They need our help | Nancy Jo Sales
Posted on March 26, 2024
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OpinionGender This article is more than 10 months oldTeen girls are struggling. They need our helpThis article is more than 10 months oldNancy Jo SalesGirls and young women report rising rates of suicide, depression and sexual violence in North America – and a lot of it has to do with social media
Teenage girls are in crisis, and have been for some time. The CDC’s recently released Youth Risk Behavior Survey has received a great deal of media attention, but it’s only one of many alarming studies, even before the pandemic, charting rising rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide in girls.
[Read More]Ukraine + Russia | World
Posted on March 26, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Strike on Friday targeted a Rosneft oil storage facility about 50km from the Ukrainian border, in Russian town of Klintsy, officials saidAt a glance: what we know on day 696
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Before We Die review a weak, bleak hour thats totally lost in translation
Posted on March 25, 2024
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TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewBased on a Swedish series, this dire Channel 4 police drama boasts downright woeful acting – and a script that seems cobbled together via Google Translate
Channel 4’s new drama Before We Die is based on a Swedish series of the same name. It figures: viewing it felt exactly like watching something where all the important things had been lost in translation.
A pace that might perhaps have fostered a sense of dread in the original here tips over into simple slowness.
[Read More]Cory Wells obituary | Pop and rock
Posted on March 25, 2024
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Pop and rockObituaryCory Wells obituarySinger and musician who co-founded the American band Three Dog NightCory Wells, who has died aged 74, was a founder member of the pop vocal trio Three Dog Night. Despite never being the band of choice for hip insiders, they enjoyed huge chart success in the late 60s and early 70s, scoring 21 consecutive Top 40 singles in the US between 1969 and 1975, including three No 1 hits.
[Read More]Facebook 'friends' did not act on suicide note | Facebook
Posted on March 25, 2024
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FacebookFacebook 'friends' did not act on suicide noteMother of Simone Back, who died after posting that she had taken pills, asks why no one called for help in timeThe mother of a woman who told 1,048 Facebook friends that she had taken a fatal overdose has questioned why none of them sought help until it was too late.
Simone Back, 42, posted a message on the social networking site after 10pm on Christmas Day saying: "
[Read More]Gwendoline Christie: Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional | Game of Thro
Posted on March 25, 2024
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Gwendoline Christie. Photograph: Gustavo Papaleo/The Guardian. Dress, Roskanda from MatchesFashion.comThe rule-breaking, risk-taking actor and model on what’s next after Game Of Thrones. By Tom Lamont
by Tom LamontLittle about the actor and sometime model Gwendoline Christie is strictly conventional: she describes herself as someone who sees a norm and wants to sprint in the opposite direction. Even so, in the hours before we meet, Christie has really outdone herself. The 40-year-old is just back from New York fashion week, where she stunned a Manhattan crowd silly by walking the runway dressed in a huge, floral, giant, rainbow-coloured.
[Read More]How to make the perfect gnudi
Posted on March 25, 2024
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Felicity Cloake’s perfect gnudi. Photograph: Dan Matthews/The GuardianFelicity Cloake’s perfect gnudi. Photograph: Dan Matthews/The GuardianHow to cook the perfect ...FoodThese fluffy ricotta dumplings are all about simplicity – here’s how to do them yourself
Gnudi: the word is almost as much fun to roll around your mouth as gnudi themselves, also known as malfatti, thanks to their rustic appearance, and “ricotta gnocchi” – although, in truth, the resemblance between the two dumplings is largely visual.
[Read More]Mallmanns squashed potatoes by Olia Hercules
Posted on March 25, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipesPotatoesA simple dish with familiar ingredients, the potatoes come out with a crispy bottom and a soft top
OFM’s 20 best potato recipes in full I love recipes that are simple and use familiar ingredients, but that come out feeling unusual because of the technique used. I learned this dish from the Argentinian chef Francis Mallmann at Ballymaloe Litfest a couple of years ago. This is his signature potato dish and it has become a staple for my family here in the UK and also for my mum in Ukraine after I cooked it for her once.
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