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...Recently, Ali Wong has become a Netflix stand-up star with grotesquely funny jokes about the physical ravages of childbirth. But stand-up has always had the freedom to be edgier....
...Some pieces do fall into familiar rubrics of craft, subtext and beauty: Joan Snyder’s 1975 “Heart On”, for instance — a Cartesian grid overlaid with suggestions of flesh, skin, fluids and scars....
...Joan Bakewell: ‘Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind’ Friday April 8, 4pm, Museum of Natural History, £12 Broadcaster, journalist and writer Dame Joan Bakewell reflects on her life as one of...
...It’s not clear from the rest of the magazine, which is produced quarterly in Singapore under the exuberant editorship of Marc Wong, whether or not it is actually meant as a joke....
...Also on display in the Albertina is Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection, which shows 500 works, from the French Impressionist paintings of Degas, Monet and Renoir to surrealist pieces by Joan Miró...
...There were plenty of big women stars during this period, with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe making films that were box-office hits around the world....
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