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• Untitled(It Had No Smell)

  16-02-2015 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hey Hollis, V said. I’m one quarter Native American Indian, V said. She has two children, one has autism the other has a hard time sleeping. V came with her Mexican thug boy friend. What do you call three Afghani men with 16 camels, V said. Pimps. I said nothing. V had a wry smile. ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Hermitage library employee arrested over missing illustrations

  16-02-2015 22:17
  
  Pages with historic engravings and prints were allegedly cut out of books and offered for sale at antiquarian shops
  
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• Museums rile amateur photographers with ban on selfie sticks

  16-02-2015 20:07
  
  Some of the most famous museums in the world have banned “selfie sticks” because of fears that people using them might damage artworks and disrupt fellow visitors.
  
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• The one-armed concert pianist: Nicholas McCarthy on Britain's Got Talent and the Proms

  16-02-2015 18:55
  
  Nicholas McCarthy does not need a Google alert to remind him when another series of Britain's Got Talent is looming – or, depending on your viewpoint – threatening. For the past few years now, the show's producers have contacted him months before the transmission date, asking whether he might like to take part. They are as persuasive as producers of any show that requires talent greater than an overweight man playing the spoons must be, but McCarthy proves resistant.
  
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• How Can The Arts Help People With Alzheimer’s?

  16-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Improv theater is particularly helpful because it doesn’t rely on memorization, which patients may struggle with. Rather, improv is about going with the flow and enjoying the immediate energies.”
  
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• Artist Who Made That (Gorgeous) Poppies Exhibit At The Tower Of London Says He Received Death Threats

  16-02-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Cummins said: ‘The threats came, I suppose, because they felt that the money was going to charities which in some way were involved in war.'”
  
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• E-Readers Allow You To Read 50 Shades Of Grey Privately – Except For That Huge Company Monitoring Everything You Do On Your Kindle

  16-02-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Amazon knows more about your Kindle reading than the clerk in that bookstore in the next town, more than your librarian, and in fact more than anyone has ever known about how we read.”
  
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• Who Will Save PBS, And Therefore Indie Documentaries?

  16-02-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a vicious cycle: the confusing scheduling prevents people from finding the shows, so they don’t tune in, so PBS sees no reason to support them.”
  
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• Sorry, Literary Fiction Establishment: Fantasy Is Excellent For The Brain

  16-02-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The research suggests fantasy stories — or at least those good enough to hold our interest — produce neural reactions that are above and beyond those created by other narratives — even ones that are just as exciting, involving, or humorous.”
  
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• How Should Composers Act (And What Should They Wear) In Rehearsal?

  16-02-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following these guidelines is how you will avoid glimpsing voodoo dolls of yourself with pins in them on the musicians’ stands.”
  
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• The Worldwide Threats To Political Cartoonists

  16-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just days ago, Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, was arrested over a tweet he posted criticizing Malaysia’s judiciary. A cartoon he posted on his Twitter account showed Prime Minister Najib Razak as the judge in a high-profile case involving an opposition leader.”
  
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• At The Berlin Film Festival, A Dissident Iranian Filmmaker Takes Top Prize

  16-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Taxi is Panahi’s third film since he was banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling in 2010. It was filmed covertly as the director drove a taxi around Tehran.”
  
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• Australian Teenager Wins The Prix de Lausanne

  16-02-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It’s weird to think at 16 I will be on the other side of the world, living by myself and cooking and cleaning and washing up,’ says Lee. ‘It’s scary, but it’s what I’ve been training for.'”
  
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• The First Writer From North Africa To Be Elected To The Academie Française Has Died

  16-02-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro in 2005, [Assia] Djebar reflected on her status as a female author in the Arab world. ‘I am not a symbol,’ she said. ‘My only activity consists of writing.'”
  
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• Director of National Gallery of Denmark denounces Copenhagen attacks

  16-02-2015 15:53
  
  Swedish artist Lars Vilks intended target of gunman
  
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• Get Ready For Crowded Skies As Commercial Drones Become Legal

  16-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The FAA “said it believes that drones can save lives, boost the economy, and be integrated safely into the national airspace.”
  
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• The Frank Lloyd Wright House That Has Survived Earthquakes And Is Now Reopened To The Public

  16-02-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollyhock House’s curator: “Within the context of Wright’s career, it’s the first house of his second period — post Prairie-style period. It’s also his first house in Los Angeles. That means it’s the first time he gets to experiment with Japanese-inspired ideas of dissolving the walls between the exterior and the interior. Here, he’s got […]
  
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• How Do You Get Untold American Stories Out To The Masses? Graphic Novels, Of Course

  16-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some man or woman in Louisiana deciding that, ‘The only way I’m going to be able to get up in the morning and go to do what I need to do, is to run. And to run thousands of mile barefooted through snow and ice with only a river and stars and spirituals to guide […]
  
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• Prolific British Composer And Pianist John McCabe Has Died

  16-02-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn’s piano sonatas are considered definitive. His own compositions included orchestral and chamber music, and he was director of the London College of Music between 1983 and 1990.”
  
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• The Dharavi Biennale, Mumbai's new arts and science festival - in pictures

  16-02-2015 13:35
  
  The inaugural festival highlights the contribution of Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest informal settlement, to India’s economic and cultural life while informing people about the health issues residents face there. It is organised by Sneha Continue reading...
  
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• Blow up: Charles Pétillon's bizarre balloon masterpieces – in pictures

  16-02-2015 08:00
  
  Clouds of balloons take on a life of their own in this French artist’s inflated fantasies. Watch the white bubbles spill out of spaceships, skim like stones on water and take over a golf course. Welcome to invasion of the balloon snatchers … Continue reading...
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli: a pawn in Iran's culture wars

  16-02-2015 06:10
  
  In March Tehran authorities broken in to artist’s home and seized all the sculptures they could find. He’s faced a fight to get them back ever sinceOn 16 March 2014 renowned Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli awoke in his Tehran home to the sound of his daughter screaming. Twenty men had broken the locks on the door and entered his home. They refused to show identification, and proceeded to seize all the artwork they could find.
  Tanavoli’s daughter filmed the men as they bound the massive
  
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• Possible Anne Boleyn portrait found using facial recognition software

  16-02-2015 01:01
  
  Images of beheaded queen were destroyed after her death in 1536, leaving only one contemporary likeness She won the heart of King Henry VIII, divided the church and lost her head. But nearly 500 years after Anne Boleyn met her death, only one uncontested portrait of her remains.
  Pictures of the beguiling queen – who is played by a steely Claire Foy in the hit BBC historical drama Wolf Hall – were roundly destroyed after her death in 1536. The concerted effort to erase her from history was
  
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