ARTH 391 Art & its Changing Contexts: Time and Memory - Concordia University

There is not one weak sketch in the opener of Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s comedy – they will have you weeping tears of laughter. Now in its second series, expect returning characters and new ones. There are lifestyle influencers shopping at Asda; hipsters spending all day in an overpriced trinkets boutique; and Mary Poppins at a gynaecological appointment. It also guest stars Steve Coogan, Sian Clifford and Jamie Demetriou. Hollie RichardsonThe Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn8pm, BBC One This minor variation on the Repair Shop formula continues: the barn is still open but the gang embark on a few road trips. Most notable this time is the Ukrainian tsymbaly (a hammered dulcimer) belonging to a woman from Cornwall. Once it’s been lovingly restored, it’s moving to see it being played. Phil HarrisonPortrait Artist of the Year 20268pm, Sky Arts

It begins on Christmas Day, 1996: “It’s been a lovely day … I realised how much I love my family.” It ends three years later: “I’m lying on the floor in floods of tears and all I want to do is die.” Say what you like about adolescence but it is nothing if not an emotional tumult. “If I’d known as a teenager,” says the comedian Jon Richardson ruefully, “that I’d one day write a book about them, I couldn’t have bookended my teenage diaries with better quotes to show what a storm of shit those years can be.”The book is The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian, and it has been two years in the making. Two years that, if not quite the hormonal rollercoaster the book itself records, have been quite the ride. The project is borne of a crossroads moment in the Lancashire man’s midlife, after he experienced bereavement, serious illness among family and friends, and the breakdown of his marriage to fellow comic Lucy Beaumont. The last was an inevitably very public ending, splayed across the tabloids, to a relationship which itself played out in public, courtesy of the couple’s acclaimed mockumentary about their domestic arrangements, Meet the Richardsons.

red-and-white safety barriers reimagined as public seatingA signature element of Dutch urban infrastructure, the red-and-white aluminum traffic barrier (schrikhek), serves as the primary design reference for ‘stop!’, a new collection of outdoor benches and stools by Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx. Typically deployed across the Netherlands to signal construction zones and redirect public traffic, these standardized aluminum structures have been reconfigured to serve a social rather than restrictive function in public spaces.all images ©Studio Martins Mezulis and 13_0663_tsx recontextualizing utilitarian infrastructure into furniture The ‘stop!’ collection by Studio Martins Mezulis and creative 13_0663_tsx reinterprets the visual language and material composition of traditional safety infrastructure into functional street furniture. Instead of diverting pedestrians and cyclists away, the modified forms invite users to pause, sit, and gather. By recontextualizing the familiar high-visibility aluminum panels into seating, the project explores how utilitarian safety elements can be adapted for community interaction.