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Will Higginbotham

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Covers:  Arts/Culture, Business, Society, Pacific Affairs
Writing in NYT, The Monthly, FT, The Guardian, Port, others. MLA @UniofOxford.

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I'm a freelance writer with experience producing reported features, news and profiles. I conceptualize, pitch, research, report, write, edit and fact-check most of the pieces I publish.

My work has appeared in outlets including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Monthly, Monocle and many others. I've covered breaking and daily news for The BBC, The New Daily, amongst others.

In particular, I enjoy covering arts/culture, pacific/international affairs, modern business, as well as telling sto…

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NYT: Where the Lion and the Witch Met the Hobbit

NYT: Where the Lion and the Witch Met the Hobbit

Discovering the sites in Oxford where C.S. Lewis, the writer of over 30 books, including the "Chronicles of N…

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NYT: Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law

NYT: Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law

"I'm smart enough to know if cars are coming," said one walker who is glad the old law will come off the book…

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The Monthly: Red rover

The Monthly: Red rover

When she was six, Abigail Allwood fell in love with space. It was the early 1980s, and the Brisbane girl was …

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The Monthly: Land of the free

The Monthly: Land of the free

It's 6pm in the suburb of South Park Hill in Denver, Colorado, and Vali Papi is busy straightening bicycles a…

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ABC: Australia's history of kidnapping Pacific Islanders

ABC: Australia's history of kidnapping Pacific Islanders

Updated September 17, 2017 07:23:50 Recent debate in the United States over the legacy of slavery has reignit…

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FT: Obama 'Hope' artist Shepard Fairey: 'I'm aiming for intrigue and engagement'

FT: Obama 'Hope' artist Shepard Fairey: 'I'm aiming for intrigue and engagement'

The South Carolinian on trying to make art that isn't polarising and why Texas is the perfect place to show p…

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Civic architecture done right: Nine exciting new public spaces, from Brisbane to Geneva

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By Will Higginbotham Verified
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With its undulating glass façade and nods to Indigenous heritage, Queensland’s ambitious new theatre is reframing how a cultural institution engages with a city. (Image: Scott Burrows/Courtesy of Glasshouse Theatre) Brisbane’s architectural gems are gleaming more brightly than ever. A case in point is the new Queensland Performing Arts Centre expansion, which features the 1,500-seat Glasshouse Theatre, designed by local practice Blight Rayner Architecture in partnership with Norway’s Snøhetta.
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Using Ordinary Objects to Discuss the Afterlife of the Slave Trade

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By Will Higginbotham Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Using Ordinary Objects to Discuss the Afterlife of the Slave Trade Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris debut. As an artist, Boz Deseo Garden, who uses the pronouns they/them, has cultivated a reputation for using ordinary objects. Credit...via Boz Garden Oct.
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Spotlighting the Woman Who Brought European Modernism to California

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By Will Higginbotham Verified
| The New York Times Verified
In January 1945, the artist Lyonel Feininger wrote to Galka Scheyer, his friend and representative in the United States, to tell her that donating her large collection of Modernist artworks to a California museum was a good idea. The reason, he wrote, was simple: “because this is where you enabled us, gave us our first foothold in the United States.” The letter arrived just months before Scheyer died in Los Angeles, at 56.
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