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Portraits reveal many truths about the human condition â how we present ourselves to the world. Bey explores the dialogue between sitter and subject.
Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an International Center of Photography Infinity Award winner. He has received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship (aka a âgenius grantâ) and has exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Walker Art Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and many more. His latest show is
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Cambridge plant scientists say circadian clock genes, which enable plants to measure daily and seasonal rhythms, should be targeted in agriculture and crop breeding for higher yields and more sustainable farming.
Like humans, plants have an internal clock that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a study published today say that now the genetic basis of this circadian system is well understood and there are improved genetic tools to modify it, the clock should be exploited in agriculture - a process they describe as chronoculture - to contribute to global food security. We live on a rotating planet, and that has a huge impact on our biology - and on the biology of plants. We ve discovered that plants grow much better when their internal clock is matched to the environment they grow in, said Professor Alex Webb, Chair of Cell Signalling in the University of Cambridge s Department of Plant Sciences and senior author of the report.
Foodies Festival began in 2004 and was quickly dubbed the “Gastro-Glastonbury”. Now the three-day event is making its Hylands Park debut in Chelmsford this October. The festival features MasterChef and Great British Bake Off champions, chart-topping popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor and gastronomic delights from around the world. Star names from the food world include 2021 MasterChef champion Tom Rhodes, Essex-born MasterChef: The Professionals champion Alex Webb, Bake Off champion Candice Brown, MasterChef champion Thomas Frake and Great British Bake Off finalist Laura Adlington. The music feast is just as sumptuous with Murder On The Dancefloor star Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing her crowd-pleasing, dance-along anthems, top-ranked Lady Gaga tribute act Maybe Gaga, and high-energy band Flash with their amazing Queen stage show.
Foodies Festival began in 2004 and was quickly dubbed the “Gastro-Glastonbury”. Now the three-day event is making its Hylands Park debut in Chelmsford this October. The festival features MasterChef and Great British Bake Off champions, chart-topping popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor and gastronomic delights from around the world. Star names from the food world include 2021 MasterChef champion Tom Rhodes, Essex-born MasterChef: The Professionals champion Alex Webb, Bake Off champion Candice Brown, MasterChef champion Thomas Frake and Great British Bake Off finalist Laura Adlington. The music feast is just as sumptuous with Murder On The Dancefloor star Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing her crowd-pleasing, dance-along anthems, top-ranked Lady Gaga tribute act Maybe Gaga, and high-energy band Flash with their amazing Queen stage show.
Geoff Dyer Review by David Pratt Back in a bygone day before entering journalism via documentary photography, I taught art history and critical studies at Glasgow School of Art. Even before then, during my student days at the school, I was a devoted follower of the art critic, painter, and novelist John Berger. His book, Ways of Seeing, was a virtual bible for a generation of art students and those teaching in art schools. In part inspired by the thinking that underpins the book, I used to set my students an exercise by asking them to bring with them a selection of picture postcards. Many were of the typical holiday type commonly posted in those pre-internet days. Seascapes, landscapes, city scenes, portraits, monuments; others were more human in their imagery – comic or political.