2 h. ago ‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his hometown, race, police and art

Lawrence Burney’s new book, No Sense in Wishing, comes at a time when the US is facing a crackdown on cities, art, culture and educationLawrence Burney’s latest, No Sense in Wishing, is a book in which the famous phenom and dark horse share equal weight on the page. It’s also a love letter to Baltimore – to its artists, its crabs and its streets – and a Bildungsroman that finds its heroes in Lupe Fiasco and Frederick Douglass alike.Burney, a Baltimore native, culture critic, and essayist, guides us through a memoir about the art, whether films or paintings or song lyrics, that have informed his personal and professional trajectory. He writes about growing up amongst artists with Black family traditions rooted in the Chesapeake, his journey through fatherhood at 19, and then to New York, where he helped spearhead Vice’s coverage of lesser known rap and hip-hop artists otherwise left out of mainstream media coverage. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Italy art police seize 21 suspected fake works from Salvador Dalí show

Squad confiscates works from Parma exhibition after consulting Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in CataloniaItaly’s art squad on Tuesday seized 21 artworks from a major exhibition in Parma dedicated to works by Salvador Dalí on suspicion they were falsely attributed to the Spanish surrealist.The show, entitled Dalí, Between Art and Myth, had only been open for a few days at Palazzo Tarasconi before police confiscated the allegedly forged works, including drawings, tapestries and engravings. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Famous photographer stunned after her controversial photos of naked children are seized from museum by Texas police

Sally Mann's photos were ripped from the walls of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as part of a police investigation into child pornography.

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3 w. ago What Pep Guardiola did during the international break can help Man City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was in America during the international break watching tennis and golf. Now the attention is on the Premier League and the visit of Manchester United.

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3 w. ago How America’s gritty steel city became a surprising foodie haven

Once known as a centre of industry, Yvette Cook explores how a revitalised Pittsburgh is fast making a name for itself on the food scene, with dishes ranging from the famous pastrami sandwich to Lebanese shawarma, Polish pierogies and rye whisky

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3 w. ago Workers' daily commute to Mexico City ends in tragedy in fatal train

Authorities in Mexico say a train has collided with a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50

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4 w. ago How to spend 72 hours in Santiago, Chile: What to eat, drink, see and where to stay

From boho-chic neighbourhoods to trendy rooftop bars, Radhika Aligh explores South America's buzzing capital city

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last month Forget New York and Chicago – this friendly Canadian gem is the North American city I return to time and again

Compared to the hustle of many of North American cities, Robin McKelvie finds Vancouver to be the USA’s cooler – quite literally – Canadian cousin, with a culture that revels in nature and a food scene to rival the best south of the border

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