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United front: breasts without the airbrush

How do you feel about your breasts? One photographer asked 100 women to bare all. Laura Dodsworth The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2014 The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth’s pictures of 100 women’s breasts isn’t the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem …

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A conversation with Nina Paley about “Sita Sings the Blues”

Nina Paley is the writer, director, animator, and producer of the highly acclaimed animated feature film, Sita Sings the Blues. At one point, her film was illegal due to copyright laws; sharing it with audiences was technically a Federal crime. The film is now legal, and free to share (see sitasingstheblues.com). Nina is now artist-in-residence …

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Marina Abramovic: MASTER THE ART OF DOING NOTHING ALL DAY

THIRTY YEARS AGO, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic was a penniless outsider, lining of a van. Now the 67-year-old is a star turn, not just revered by the art world for her boundary-pushing shows, but collaborating with Lady Gaga and inspiring a storyline on Sex and the City. As the New-York based artist begins a …

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