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• Untitled(I have consumed many souls and have become stronger for it.)

  22-02-2015 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne sent me an account of herself having sex with another white dude. She applied my fantasy she read about in my writing to herself. Anne has been mirroring me in her writing. I am in her maze. Anne like myself has complicated feelings about money and love. Anne has brown skin and sometimes it ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled(Y is a big city fire)

  22-02-2015 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Y is a big city fire. The surveyor pokes Y’s eye with his index finger when he points out a landmark. It was happening all along. An ugly woman tells the impostor Y who in every way flouts convention that he is smart to sleep with him. They may snuff Y, the oddball, because he ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled(I like the middle class man, A said. He takes you out to dinner hopes he can sleep with you, but doesn’t expect it).

  22-02-2015 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last night in the wind and intermittent downpour I went back to Holgate to get my glasses. J said that I could do what I wanted to her. I didn’t know what to do. It felt good to pull at her hair when I last saw her. I walked her around the room by her ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• The Academy Merely Reflects Hollywood’s Beyond Dismal Record On Women Directors

  22-02-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you’re going to risk millions of dollars, you’re going to put a man in charge of that.”
  
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• Los Angeles Mayor Now Begging Studios To Shoot In Hollywood (And Not Georgia)

  22-02-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our entertainment industry is essential to our city’s identity and economy, and this campaign represents the next step in a strategic agenda to ensure Los Angeles remains the entertainment capital of the world.”
  
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• More Americans See Actors In Redface On Stage Than Ever See Native Actors

  22-02-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my grandma spit. It wasn’t a casual spit. It was a once in a lifetime spit. I watched as the saliva of […]
  
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• Grand Budapest Hotel Is The Rarest Of Things: A Thoughtful Comedy About The Holocaust

  22-02-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To be sure, the period also needs to continue to be addressed head on. But hundreds of thousands of people who might otherwise shy away saw this movie, and took away its important lessons about tolerance, governance, and the rule of law. That matters.”
  
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• Why Do People Relate To Characters Who Aren’t Real?

  22-02-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fiction offers many pleasures – we may enjoy its capacity to make the world anew for us through its descriptions, or to advance our understanding of science or philosophy through its application of ideas to examples of human behaviour, but although it does – on examination – seem so faint as to be numinous, nonetheless […]
  
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• Yes, The 3D Printer Will Initiate A Revolution – In Counterfeiting

  22-02-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The potential impact of 3D printers for counterfeiting just keeps on growing: A recent report by Gartner Group speculates that intellectual property loss due to 3D printer counterfeiting could total $100 billion by 2018.”
  
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• To Become Great, Picasso Needed Paris

  22-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Great French artists fed Picasso’s changing styles, while the city itself – with its sleaze and bohemianism – inspired his imagination.”
  
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• Chantal Joffe’s intimate self-portraits can be unflattering, but that is why they work

  22-02-2015 19:42
  
  The Jerwood Gallery continues to focus on its Hastings location with a powerful new show from the English painter Chantal Joffe. Although she is now based in east London, Joffe lived in Hastings as a teenager and her mother and two sisters still live there. Billed as an intimate portrait of her family, the exhibition features many of them – her sisters, nieces, husband, mother and her daughter – often  pictured on a bleak seafront, bundled up against the searing wind, with assorted dogs
  
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• Crowdsourcing A Beloved Bookstore’s Minimum Wage Raise

  22-02-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It occurred to Beatts that, to his customers, something like a membership might seem not only like an opportunity to help Borderlands but also like a genuine business transaction: they would be paying for the continued existence of what, to them, was an important gathering place.”
  
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• Dear Movie Studios: How About Bundling All Of The Oscar Nominees Into One Streaming Package?

  22-02-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It isn’t hard to imagine someone downloading a best picture bundle and plowing through two or three movies a night the week leading up to the Oscars. The proposition has the added bonus of heightening interest in the broadcast, thus driving viewers to it and perhaps sparking their interest in other nominees, creating a theoretical […]
  
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• Both Films That Are Favorites For Foreign-Language Oscar Are In Trouble In Their Homelands

  22-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The two frontrunners on the five-strong shortlist have spurred intense debate at home, with critics arguing that one, Polish film Ida, misrepresents the country’s past, and that another, Andrei Zvyaginstev’s Leviathan, spreads calumny on Russia’s present and its ruling regime.”
  
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• The Tug Of War Over A 1711 Stradivarius That May Leave A Soloist Without His Instrument

  22-02-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Zimmermann doesn’t own the violin. He rents it through an arrangement, struck with a now-defunct German bank, WestLB AG. That contract is set to expire Sunday night.”
  
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• How Do You Write A Film Score That Helps Dramatize (But Not Too Much) An Artist In His Studio?

  22-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’d been very meticulous in the look and the detail of the film in its period accuracy, but the music, the score, should somehow be a voice that comes from a different place. It should somehow be an expression of the essence of Turner’s painting in some way.”
  
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• The Car Mechanic’s Daughter Who Danced With Nureyev Calls It Quits

  22-02-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sylvie Guillem: “One foot on stage. Curtain up. That was it… The relation I had with the audience, it was fantastic. It is always so strange. You dance, and there is an answer – that is always true. You put me in a room with people and I hide in the corner; put me on […]
  
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• The Academy Might Make Bad Choices, But The Oscars Are Irresistible

  22-02-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Oscars mean something because, and this of course is what sets them apart from other awards that shall go nameless, they are given by a cross section of people from different crafts who actually make movies.”
  
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• The Barnes Museum Says It Has Discovered Two New Works By Cézanne

  22-02-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hidden beneath brown paper backing, the newly discovered pieces are unfinished, but they have sent tremors through the world of Cézanne scholarship, where additions to his body of work are exceedingly rare and where even the resurfacing of long-unseen pieces can be huge news.”
  
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• Right Actor, Wrong Movie, Or, Why Julianne Moore Will Win An Oscar For The Maudlin ‘Still Alice’

  22-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In other words, you are not winning just for your performance. You are winning because a butterfly flapped its wings on Oscar night years earlier. And so now here we are, trapped in this uncomfortable loop.”
  
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• The First U.S. Actress To Win A French Oscar Is … The Star Of The Twilight Movies?

  22-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Accepting the prize, Stewart shouted ‘I love you Juliette’ in French to her co-star Juliette Binoche.”
  
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• ‘Parks And Recreation’ Co-Producer Found Dead At Home At Age 30

  22-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harris Wittels was found by his assistant. “On ‘Parks and Rec,’ whose seventh and final season concludes Feb. 24, Wittels also served as a writer and occasionally appeared as an animal control staffer.”
  
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• National Gallery Workers Strike A Second Time

  22-02-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “About 200 workers are campaigning against plans to switch visitor services to a private company.”
  
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• Read The New (Lost) Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Found In An Attic

  22-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We’ve had enough of old romancists and the men of travel’, said the Editor, as he blue-pencilled his copy, and made arrangements for the great Saturday edition of the Bazaar Book. ‘We want something up-to-date. Why not have a word from “Sherlock Holmes”?'”
  
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• Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime; Cornelia Parker; Cai Guo-Qiang – review

  22-02-2015 09:00
  
  Visualising a crime scene is an art as much as a science in a terrific show at the Wellcome Collection. And Manchester’s new-look Whitworth has the very best of Cornelia ParkerMarat, in Jacques-Louis David’s masterpiece, lies murdered in his bath. The stab wound just below his right clavicle gives the exact angle of the knife. Blood has already drained into the water but one hand still holds Charlotte Corday’s false letter of introduction, indicating how the killer got into the building. W
  
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• Richard Bacon: For a safe pair of hands he’s a little bit dangerous | Profile

  22-02-2015 01:05
  
  How the presenter of BBC1’s The Big Painting Challenge made it back to primetime after being sacked from Blue Peter for taking cocaineRent Free, Get Staffed, The Big Idea, Most Annoying People, 19 Keys, Castaway Exposed, Back to Reality, Up For Hire Live, Hidden Talent and Show Me the Telly. Are they names of racing horses? Obscure trade magazine titles? The B-sides of Ultravox singles?Here’s another clue: Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club. Yes, the answer is that they were all televis
  
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• National Gallery staff to stage fresh strikes over privatisation

  22-02-2015 01:01
  
  Approximately 200 workers are involved in row, which sparked a 9-1 vote in favour of industrial action in recent ballotWorkers at a leading gallery are to stage a series of fresh strikes in a row over the privatisation of services.Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union at the National Gallery in London will walk out on Sunday for five days, following a five-day stoppage earlier this month. Continue reading...
  
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• Europe's former border stations: obsolete, desolate, but still redolent of their past

  22-02-2015 01:00
  
  When Ignacio Evangelista was growing up in Spain, he'd look at maps and feel like a god gazing down on his kingdom. He was particularly fascinated by borders, and wondered why European frontiers were so complicated while African countries had sensible straight lines.
  
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