What Do People Do All Day? is a picture book by Richard Scarry from 1968. The Norman Rockwell of the under-fives, Scarry excelled at depicting typical scenes of American life in the typically American town of Busytown. There, as everywhere in the nation, a leopard gives a dental exam to a seal, a beaver digs for coal, a fox sells a house to a rabbit, and a pig is winched through a train window after pigging out in the buffet car.
Each week leading up to the Venice Biennale in April, Artnet News brings you into the studio of an artist as they prepare for acclaimed exhibitions in and around the Giardini.
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Not everyone is friends with Boris. That’s part of living in a society.
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Uh-oh, there’s a pandemic going on, but Boris gives a thumbs-up to let you know things are A-OK.
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How do the scientists make the vaccine? They use petri dishes and a microscope. Boris works in the laboratory, but there are some bumps in the road. How will Boris make this better?
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Boris likes to build, build, build. He uses his big drill to fix things, but sometimes he breaks them instead. Oops!
Of course Carrie Symonds was going to work again. Why not? Just because she is the prime minister’s partner, lives in Downing Street and has a nine-month-old baby doesn’t stop her thinking: “I need a