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Beth Phillips, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente (1984) © Beth Phillips. Courtesy Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Switzerland. In the often-solitary life of an artist, it is rare to find a trustworthy peer to take on the role of confidante. And there’s a good reason why: critique, both internal and from others, is a never-ending obsession for an artist, whose livelihood is dependent on the personal outpouring of their craft. Indeed, it takes a very special sort of friend...

With gyms closed once again, millions of Brits are relying on home workouts to stay fit over lockdown. But whats the best way to get the most out of your exercise?  Thats the question presenter Mehreen Baig attempts to answer in BBC documentary The Truth About... Getting Fit At Home, which airs tonight.  Mehreen speaks to experts in heart health, fitness and physiology to discover the most effective ways to work out without stepping foot in a gym.  Perhaps surprisingly, Mehreen discovers th...

Tomorrow at 9am, hundreds of thousands of Britons will begin their day with 35 minutes of jumping, sprinting and squatting – all led by lockdown fitness hero Joe Wicks. He is reviving the live daily workouts on YouTube that during the first Covid-19 lockdown got children across the country exercising at home, but which also inspired many people of all ages to get off the sofa and start getting fitter. Its success saw the 34-year-old awarded an MBE. Now, once again, we’ve been told we can ex...

Samuel Corum / AFP via Getty Images Originally published on December 24, 2020 12:30 am Updated 11 p.m. ET to many wealthy and well-connected convicts with ties to his innermost circles , including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Republican operative Roger Stone and Charles Kushner, the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump. In total, Trump pardoned 26 people and commuted the sentences of three more people — the second consecutive night of what is expected to be a flurry of acts of cleme...

Florida State University News Faculty and Staff Briefs: December 2020  Published: HONORS AND AWARDS Joseph A. Schwartz, Ph.D. (College of Criminology & Criminal Justice) was awarded the Early Career Award from the BioPsychoSocial Division of the American Society of Criminology. This prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to scholarly knowledge on BioPsychoSocial criminology within six years of receiving their doctoral degree. James Du, Ph.D....