60 m. ago Why trans art matters more than ever: ‘It reflects how people live and love’

After the controversy over Amy Sherald’s portrait of a trans Statue of Liberty, trans artists speak about why their work speaks to an important momentPart of the magic of portraiture is how it renders so much of the human experience accessible to us, things we might never see otherwise. This has been very much on Black artist Amy Sherald’s mind. When I spoke to her in advance of the debut of her exhibition American Sublime, she told me that Black representation was foundational to her practice: “I developed this idea that, when I look at art history, for the most part I don’t see portraits of people that look like me. So it started there.”That exhibition’s curator, Sarah Roberts, also spoke about Sherald’s passion for representing the LGBTQ+ community: “Amy has thought a lot about her role as an artist and the need for representation, and she has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ rights. This work is thinking about who gets depicted as being American.” Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Jamie Genevieve on the autumn / winter eye looks to add to your arsenal

As she reveals a mascara which promises to increase lash volume by up to 356%, makeup artist Jamie Genevieve talks though her favourite new season eye looks

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82 m. ago Airdrie & Shotts MSP Neil Gray welcomes £1.8m funding support for arts and cultural festivals

The politician says this will help to "put the spotlight on artistic talent" throughout the country, including in his constituency.

Economics

3 h. ago TikTok influencer and her family found dead and wrapped in plastic inside truck in Mexico

Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, known on TikTok as Esmeralda FG, her husband and their two children were discovered dead in downtown Guadalajara

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3 h. ago Love Island 2021 winners Millie Court and Liam Reardon split as Welsh bricklayer calls time on romance, leaving Essex influencer 'gutted'

The Daily Mail can reveal the pair have gone their separate ways this summer after appearing to get their relationship back on track following a brief break-up in 2022.

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3 h. ago A meaty topic: what is the carnivore diet and why do so many influencers seem to swear by it? | Antiviral

Some claim eating steak and whole sticks of butter has improved their skin, cleared brain fog and even eliminated farting. Experts say an all-animal diet carries risksRead more in the Antiviral seriesEx-vegan turned carnivore Isabella Ma, better known to her nearly half a million followers on Instagram as @steakandbuttergal, has glowing skin and a flat stomach. She looks directly at the camera as she chomps down on an entire stick of butter. It’s part of her “high fat carnivore diet” to which she attributes a whole host of health benefits, not least of which is the claim she “literally never fart[s] any more” and has a single “scentless” bowel movement a week.A lot of gym bros also back the diet touted for helping people lose weight and build muscle, such as Antonio Angotti, who says the fat in red meat “includes almost every nutrient humans need to thrive” and invokes religion as part of his dietary choices, saying he eats “just foods God will actually bless”. It’s also been platfo...

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3 h. ago Unseen Babyshambles at Glasgow Barrowlands snap unveiled to mark 20th anniversary of debut album

Brian Anderson captured an incredible snap of the Babyshambles singer but it nearly didn't end well.

Culture

3 h. ago 'I pawned all my old DVDs and was floored by price I was quoted'

DVDs reached peak popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but since then sales have seen a steady decline thanks to the rise of streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

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4 h. ago 'Over the top' action sequel better than original surging up Prime Video charts

Some fans have compared the film to classic Jurassic Park

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5 h. ago How will Arne Slot change his Liverpool tactics to get best out of Alexander Isak? | Jonathan Wilson

Swede is not a classic central striker, but could his signing herald tactical tweaks and what does it mean for Salah?On the face of it, it’s not hard to see why Liverpool would want Alexander Isak. He will not turn 26 until later this month and has scored more than 20 Premier League goals in each of the past two seasons, something matched only by Erling Haaland. But he offers more than just goals; he’s a very modern centre-forward.Thirty or 40 years ago, when 4-4-2 was still the dominant formation, strike pairings tended to come in two forms: either target-man and finisher, or creator and finisher. These days, the very best centre-forwards combine traits of all three. This is not entirely new: the days of Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush or Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips are long gone and football has been familiar for some time with players of the ilk of Didier Drogba, Andriy Shevchenko and Radamel Falcao, forwards with pace and some blend of physicality and technical ability. Continue ...

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6 h. ago ‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers

As Ice expands and standards are lowered, advocates and former US officials warn that misconduct may increaseThe last time the US dramatically expanded its force of immigration officers, major problems arose.Some border agents recruited in the 2000s turned out to be cartel members. One kidnapped and raped three women in his custody. Two others were convicted of off-duty murders. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Cress to impress: the peppery, unsung hero ingredient | Kitchen aide

What to make with cress that isn’t an egg sandwichGrowing cress with my daughter is a fun activity, but she’s intolerant to eggs so can’t have the classic sandwich I grew up with. What else can we make with cress? Sophie, via emailThis is also a pressing matter for Rosie Birkett, author of the A Lot on her Plate Substack, because her daughter recently returned home from nursery with a yoghurt tub containing cress: “It might be tiny, but cress is mighty – peppery punchy, and full of character, almost like a mini rocket leaf.” And if eggs are off the menu, Birkett’s first port of call would be to harness the young seedlings’ ability to accessorise: “Do your usual mashed avocado with a little lemon and olive oil, spread that over bread or toast, then top with a scattering of cress. It will add brilliant bite, freshness and pepperiness.”The same goes for bruschetta, or toasts with hummus, olive oil and gentle spices such as cumin, says Anna Jones, author of Easy Wins. She’s no stranger ...

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7 h. ago Stankonia at 25: 15 artists who all have been influenced by OutKast’s classic 2000’s album

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of OutKast’s hallowed album by meeting the artists influenced by ‘Stankonia’

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9 h. ago Tainted love: how Ukrainians are ridding themselves of Russian

Putin’s invasion has seen Ukrainian book lovers recoil from Russian literary dominance, by a range of meansOne day this summer, the Ukrainian artist Stanislav Turina took two of his books to his garden near Kyiv. One was a volume of poems by Alexander Pushkin.But Turina – a voracious reader, never without a couple of books in his backpack – had no plans to pick it up again. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Premier League players including Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy are among 200 footballers who say they lost tens of millions of pounds through financial advisers

Affected footballers joined the V11 campaign group comprising individuals who invested with Kingsbridge Asset Management in the 1990s and 2000s.

Sport

10 h. ago Leading female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

The letter accuses the right of exploiting ‘violence against women to fuel hate and division’

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10 h. ago AD FEATURE: Discover Altrincham Garrick Playhouse's upcoming season of fantastic live shows

From classic musicals to comedy and family panto, Altrincham Garrick Playhouse has something for everyone

Society

10 h. ago The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimaginedWhat if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material. Working-class Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun were rarely apart after they met in 1933. They lived and worked together, became famous together and then declined into desperate squalor together – even poorer than when they began.Barr knows what it’s like to conquer Glasgow from a small, working-class town on its outskirts; he knows what it’s like to find yourself feted for your portraits of the place you’ve left irrevocably behind. His memoir, Maggie and Me, was a hard-hitting yet rambunctious tale of growing up gay near Motherwell under Thatcher, uneasily aware that the woman who pushed his parents deeper into poverty also taught him that the ruthless ex...

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10 h. ago Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?It is one of my very earliest concert memories. In October 1965, my father drove us to Manchester to hear Mstislav Rostropovich play in the Free Trade Hall. Rostropovich played Dvořák’s cello concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic, who began the concert with a symphony by Tikhon Khrennikov and ended it with one by Brahms. I was smitten by Rostropovich’s noble playing. I had never heard a musician like him before.This was, though, a concert taking place slap-bang in the middle of the cold war. The Cuban missile crisis had taken place less than three years earlier. The Berlin Wall was still fairly new. The Vietnam war was deepening. That summer I had read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The movie version of Le Carré’s novel, with Richard Burton, was due out...

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10 h. ago Michelle Keegan shows off her toned figure in a tiny bikini on loved

The Fool Me Once star, 38, took to her Instagram page to share her holiday photo album, captioning the post: 'August holiday album.'

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