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• Dancers And Other Artists Protest After Belgian Opera House Kills Off Its Entire Dance Budget

  27-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The potential break with dance is startling at a theater that has had exceptionally strong links to the form since 1960.”
  
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• Infinite Possibility: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

  27-12-2014 11:05
  
  Portugal’s Serralves Museum offers a retrospective on the work of an Iranian artist feted by New York’s glitterati but whose geometric designs are inspired by Islamic art When a 20-year old Iranian art student moved to New York in 1944 from her hometown, the ancient city of Qazvin, she soon found herself mixing with the brightest players of the city’s art scene including Willem de Kooning and Andy Warhol. John Cage crowned her “that beautiful Persian girl”.
  But the work of Monir Shah
  
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• The art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian - in pictures

  27-12-2014 11:00
  
  The first museum retrospective of the work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, the Iranian grande dame of geometric art, on display at Portugal’s Serralves Museum, moving to New York this March Continue reading...
  
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• A mental tyranny is keeping black writers from greatness | Ben Okri

  27-12-2014 08:00
  
  We should not be expected to write about slavery, poverty or racial injustice. The greatest literature comes not from the heaviest subjects but from freedom of thoughtLiving as we do in troubling times, we look to writers to reflect the temper of the age. The essential thing is freedom. A people cannot be great or fulfilled without it. A literature cannot be great without it either. The basic prerequisite of literature is freedom. And the first freedom is mental freedom. For it is possible to be
  
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• WLTM

  27-12-2014 02:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ‘What does non-scene mean?’ ‘You’re looking at the wrong bit.’ ‘What?’ ‘You’re not interested in gay men.’ ‘Ohh. Yeah. No.’ She giggled, too long, too loud. I came to this corner of the park to think in peace: the fine weather had put the same idea in too many heads. I was about to gather ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• “The Interview”: It’s A Hit In China

  27-12-2014 01:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In one sign of the enthusiasm for the film, whose theatrical release was initially held up after a hacking attack on the studio, “The Interview” scored an 8.0 rating on the Chinese Internet movie database Douban, with more than 10,000 people posting reviews.”
  
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• Untitled(Change the channel)

  27-12-2014 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lorn turned off the wifi to get rid of me. Now that I felt she wanted to get rid of me I decided I would stay. I paid homage to her supple ass that started at her thigh and went up to her waist. I would have loved to have spent time with her in ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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