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BarbieThe Oscar-nominated actor delivers a knockout comic performance in Greta Gerwig’s Mattel movie, playing on male insecurities and toxic masculinity
Warning: there are spoilers aheadNow that the whole world has apparently gone to see Barbie, it seems like the secret is finally out. Margot Robbie is not the star of Barbie. Yes, she plays the lead. Yes, she produced it. Yes, she gets to spend a lot of time running around in nice dresses. Read More...
PaintingObituaryAtta Kwami obituaryPainter, printmaker and sculptor whose colourful work drew on the vernacular art of his native GhanaSince July, visitors to Folkestone harbour have encountered a double archway brightly painted with a geometric pattern in an array of colours. A part of the Kent town’s triennial art festival, it is the work of the Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami, who has died aged 65.
Kwami, who lived in both Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, and, from 2009, Loughborough, in Leicestershire, said the sculpture, titled Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu (Gateways of the Sea in the Ewe language), represented “movement … people leaving because of Brexit, immigrants arriving from other places”. Read More...
