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• ENO's outgoing chairman Martyn Rose demands artistic director John Berry be sacked

  25-01-2015 22:56
  
  A bitter feud at the top of the English National Opera burst into the open yesterday after the outgoing chairman demanded that the artistic director be axed “for the very survival” of the organisation.
  
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• Can Pamplona’s New Museum Make It A Destination For More Than The Running Of The Bulls?

  25-01-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If the architecture of the new gallery is not as eye-catching as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, the collection is more impressive, in particular the photographic archive that goes back to the dawn of photography as an art form. It also features works by Rothko, Tàpies, Picasso and Kandinsky.”
  
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• This Russian Movie Was Nominated For A Foreign Film Oscar, But Might Be Censored In Russia

  25-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The film, which paints a dark picture of corrupt provincial life in the country, has been denounced as anti-Russian by public figures ranging from politicians to clerics. The culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, has said he doesn’t like the film’s depressing story and foul language.”
  
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• Creating Special Days So Kids With Autism Can Enjoy The Museum

  25-01-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For two hours, the lights are dimmed, the loud noises are turned down and there is room to move around because it’s less crowded.”
  
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• In Michigan, Protestors Host A Die-In Against A Conductor Who Supports Putin

  25-01-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Gergiev is known to have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gergiev not only voiced his support for Putin after the leader passed anti-gay legislation, he also recently offered a quote to The New York Times Magazine regarding Russia’s annexation of Crimea.”
  
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• Playwrights Need To Belong In Order To Thrive

  25-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It empowers both the writer and theater to take risks to create the stories not being written. In addition, writing for a particular community––if you truly honor that audience’s needs––produces plays that are more specific, which in fact makes them more universal and ready for other productions elsewhere in the country.”
  
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• Here’s Why You Don’t Have To Listen To Those Friends Who Think You’ll LOVE ‘The Fall’

  25-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The show tells us that men are bothered by women who casually fuck men, it tells us there’s a virgin/vamp dichotomy in society. It tells us that male monstrosity isn’t monstrosity at all, but exists on a spectrum that includes hapless lovestruck officers of the law. It informs us that women can be unfeeling, that […]
  
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• Music Journalists Don’t Take Women Seriously As Writers, Producers Of Their Own Music

  25-01-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everyone is prejudged and sorted into preexisting categories. Man with guitar: songwriter. Man at a mixing console: Producer and mastermind. Woman with a shiny outfit: pop star.”
  
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• Possibly The Best Copyright Quirk Ever Makes James Bond Public Domain In Canada

  25-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some Canadian writers, mindful of the 2015 copyright changes, are musing about the prospect of taking 007 for a spin” – especially if they could sell their books outside of their genre-loathing country.
  
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• In The Run-up To The Academy Awards, ‘Birdman’ Just Added An Interesting Best-Picture Prize

  25-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The victory is seen as a predictor of the Academy Awards. For the last seven years, the winner of the producers’ honor has gone on to win the best picture Oscar. And like the Academy, the organization uses a preferential ballot and allows more than five nominees.”
  
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• Rubens and His Legacy, from Van Dyck to Cézanne: Stunning works make the flesh crawl

  25-01-2015 18:06
  
  I am currently reading Ordeal, the autobiography of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1972 porn film Deep Throat. The book describes how she was hypnotised by her pimp husband in order to perform acts that would define her as the muse of the modern porn industry. With this in mind, I visited the new exhibition Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne at the Royal Academy, London.
  
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• Turns Out Bilingualism Might Not Be *That* Much Of An Advantage – Until You Get Old

  25-01-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Adults who speak multiple languages seem to resist the effects of dementia far better than monolinguals do.”
  
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• Technology Could Be Making Us Safer, Except Where It’s Making Us So Very Much More Vulnerable

  25-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If technology moves along a linear axis, it is complemented by a cyclical resurgence of human forgetting, folly and failure. We might not be in danger of lapsing into the Dark Ages, but we do find ourselves relearning the same life-or-death lessons each generation.”
  
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• Why Did Popular Music Break Up With Jazz?

  25-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Soldiers who had come back from World War II didn’t seem to be as interested in the more complex, challenging kind of popular song, the more jazz-based song. Sentimental ballads and, yes, novelty numbers, suddenly was much more appealing.”
  
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• Women Fight On Many Fronts To Gain Equality In Hollywood

  25-01-2015 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Increasing numbers of people — if mostly women — are pushing back hard at the industry’s biases. And they’re pushing back publicly, a gutsy stance in an industry that runs on secrets, lies and fear.”
  
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• Ballet Dancers Take To The Air – The Rock-Climbing Air, That Is, For An Aerial Ballet

  25-01-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is not choreography for the faint of heart. Tethered by harnesses and ropes, belayed by riggers from above, the dancers engage in constant risk management, watching for jagged surfaces, crumbling sandstone beneath their feet and the ever-present threat of rope snarls.”
  
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• The Ulster Orchestra Wins A Temporary Reprieve – But Can It Be Saved?

  25-01-2015 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The current situation, of a fragile status quo, and an orchestra having to run ever harder and harder to stand still, is too precarious to sustain in the medium and longer term.”
  
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• V&A removes depiction of Prophet Mohamed from website amid 'severe security alert'

  25-01-2015 16:03
  
  The Victoria & Albert museum has removed a depiction of the Prophet Mohamed from its website amid security concerns just three weeks after the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
  
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• The Vocal (Cord) Life Coach Behind Some Of The Biggest Belters

  25-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Vetro has lived through the rise of Auto-Tune, and he says it’s never had an impact on his business. He asserts that proper technique and vocal maintenance are still crucial for working artists, and that many singers and producers who record in fancy studios still push to get the most genuine vocal performances possible.”
  
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• How The Feds Hunted And, Essentially, Destroyed Billie Holiday

  25-01-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Treasury Department told Anslinger he was wasting his time taking on a community that couldn’t be fractured, so he scaled down his focus until it settled like a laser on a single target—perhaps the greatest female jazz vocalist there ever was.”
  
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• Actors Who Impress Web Shorts Or Series Directors Are Finding Larger Roles

  25-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Which is good, because web shorts pay in what’s known in the biz as “deferred compensation” – aka nothing.
  
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• That One Time No One On Jeopardy Knew About Esa-Pekka Salonen

  25-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Be sure to follow the link to the full Twitter conversation about the entire category. To quote one participant, “Sibelius was $1,600. No one got him either.”
  
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• Someone Broke Off King Tut’s Beard – And Glued It Back On With A Ruinous Epoxy

  25-01-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The mask should have been taken to the conservation lab but they were in a rush to get it displayed quickly again and used this quick drying, irreversible material.”
  
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• Cornelia Parker: ‘I don’t want to tick anyone else’s boxes’

  25-01-2015 10:00
  
  Cornelia Parker has always cut a fiercely independent figure in the art world. On the eve of a major show in Manchester, she talks about drawing with bullets, casting cracks in the pavement – and growing up with a mother who’d been in the Luftwaffe‘I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don’t think,” Cornelia Parker says, with the briefly explosive laugh that punctuates most of her efforts at self-analysis. “I’ve always wanted to kind of trespass elsewhere as much as p
  
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• Israel’s West Bank barrier will not run through Palestinian world heritage site

  25-01-2015 09:39
  
  But the Vatican is concerned that the barrier will still planned to encroach on nearby Bethlehem properties
  
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• Rubens and His Legacy review – ambiguities lost in a thicket of pastiches

  25-01-2015 09:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  The Royal Academy’s huge Rubens show somehow leaves the great, puzzling Flemish painter in the shadowsHow is it possible to have such mixed feelings about Rubens? An artist of stupendous energy and force who ran a massive studio, spoke six languages with ease, combined a meteoric career in diplomacy with prodigious fame as the most successful and prolific artist of 17th-century Europe, whose letters gleam with verve and insight, whose drawings are pure potency, whose love
  
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• Wadsworth Atheneum restores spaces it very nearly lost

  25-01-2015 08:37
  
  Revamp of “artists’ museum” allows Tony Smith’s collection and Richard Tuttle’s surprise gift to go on show
  
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• From Venus to Katie Price: A brief history of the breast

  25-01-2015 01:05
  
  After a week in which the talk has been all about Page 3, we offer a guide to representations of a particular aspect of the female form throughout historyNow you see them, now you don’t. The Sun, with a wink at its readers and a jeer at its critics, indulged last week in a bit of traditional British seaside postcard humour when it appeared to stop featuring topless women on Page 3, before bringing them back on Thursday. “Further to reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify
  
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• Photographer Matt Lankes' portraits of the cast of Boyhood influenced the film's storyline

  25-01-2015 01:00
  
  When the photographer Matt Lankes was hired in 2002 to take annual portraits of the cast of Boyhood, Richard Linklater's Oscar-nominated movie filmed over 12 years, he couldn't have predicted that his presence on set would influence the storyline.
  
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