Josephine Joy’s canvases teem with San Diego’s pepper trees and aloe plants.
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John P. Murphy,
ARTnews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
In the film, Coel is a reclusive painter who’s hired by the children of a famous artist to pose as his assistant and gain access to a series of fabled canvases to secure their inheritance.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
Over the past three years, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have been successful in clearing several large homeless encampments and providing shelter and housing to those who lived in them.
The storm’s heavy rains caused widespread flooding that killed at least 43 people and led to the destruction of banana plantations, sorghum, beans, cassava, coffee and other crops as well as the loss of livestock.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
When some of these planters defaulted, Jacob repossessed their plantations.
—
Brenda Wineapple,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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