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Joanne Probyn
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Vancouver / Ladner abstract painter. New series, Oceanic Mindfulness: Sensing the Seas. 🇨🇦
Bravo, Marlene Dumas! 👏 #marlenedumas #boursedecommerce #paris
Marlene Dumas, 71 years old, as an artist shows the influence of growing up in South Africa.
Women will save the world.
Art historians tell us most people cannot name three women artists, living or dead.

South African artist, Marlene Dumas, who makes her home in the Netherlands, recently saw one of her paintings sell for $13.5 million.
June 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Joanne Probyn
Marlene Dumas: ‘Let’s have a drink to all women artists’

https://www.ft.com/content/a7c38a52-74f4-479f-abb9-28b277761661
Marlene Dumas: ‘Let’s have a drink to all women artists’
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www.ft.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Reposted by Joanne Probyn
A shipyard in China has been chosen to build the recently approved four new vessels to replace existing aging ships in BC Ferries' fleet.
Chinese shipyard chosen to build four new BC Ferries vessels
A shipyard in China has been chosen to build the recently approved four new vessels to replace existing aging ships in BC Ferries' fleet.
cheknews.ca
June 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thanks for your great newsletter. Huge fan. 🙏👍
This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
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📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.

🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM