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• ‘Home’ Was Projected To Be A Flop For Dreamworks – But That’s Not What Happened This Weekend

  29-03-2015 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Never bet against the children: “There is a sea of adult content, and they were able to march right in and take advantage of an enthusiastic and underserved family audience.”
  
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• Russia Fires Opera Director Who Put On Wagner And Pissed Off The Church

  29-03-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Russia’s culture minister on Sunday fired the director of a Siberian theater whose modern staging of Wagner’s opera ‘Tannhauser’ offended the powerful Russian Orthodox Church. … ‘Orthodox Christianity is the foundation of the great Russian culture,’ said one of the signs held by the protesters in Novosibirsk.”
  
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• MADE IN SWEDEN – The Final Cut Of The Rammstein Ideal

  29-03-2015 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The contemporary portrayal of the Rammstein ideal - The Final Cut: “I’m tired of explaining my art. It kills the magic in what I do !" - C.W.Lübeck / Berlin, 2013
  
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• Hilary Mantel’s Notes On How Actors Should Play The Characters Of ‘Wolf Hall’

  29-03-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For Anne Boleyn: “In your lifetime you are the focus of every lurid story that the imagination of Europe can dream up. From the moment you enter public consciousness, you carry the projections of everyone who is afraid of sex or ashamed of it. You will never be loved by the English people.”
  
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• How Our Understanding Of War-Looted Artwork Is Changing The Art Marketplace

  29-03-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are hundreds of cases out there that are still unsolved. We are only beginning to realise that this was the most gigantic theft, aside from the terrible human loss involved.”
  
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• Would A Telepathy Machine Help Us – Or Should We Work On Empathy Instead?

  29-03-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A telepathy machine, if it could ever be built, would undoubtedly have wonderful applications. It could allow people who are immobilised by a stroke or neurological disease to communicate, or create incredible opportunities for artists to collaborate. But it seems unlikely that it could broadcast world peace.”
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Experiments With Another New Way To Bring In A Younger Crowd

  29-03-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The series is just four months old, and the symphony has made some unusual marketing choices — like not putting a link to Soundbox on its homepage.”
  
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• The British Public Apparently Want ‘More Real’ And Older Women On TV

  29-03-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The survey found that people want less scantily clad women on reality television shows as well and that audiences did not think that they were good representations of real people.”
  
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• When We Read, Our Brains Might Be Seeing All The Words We Know As Images

  29-03-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to a new study, our brain sees words we know like a picture, recognizing whole words, rather than strings of letters that require processing. By tuning neurons to respond to complete words that have been seen before, our brain allows us to read quickly.”
  
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• Strings Dealer Who ‘Kept Poor Records’ Avoids Jail, Pays Back Nearly $400,000

  29-03-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Magby continues to operate his Guilford business, and his restoration and repair skills for these types of ultra high-end stringed instruments is world-renowned, Maxwell said.”
  
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• The London Skyline Campaign Is Trying To Save The Wrong Thing

  29-03-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The look of these buildings matters as does the way they fit into existing surroundings, as does their impact on the street environment. But the height of them isn’t what matters most. It’s whether they provide the homes, offices and shops that the city and its people need.”
  
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• Six Seconds In The Studio That Influenced 1500 Songs

  29-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Spencer retired from music more than 40 years ago and is now a novelist living in North Carolina. Although he was angry when he first heard the Amen break was being sampled, he now feels more at peace with it.”
  
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• An Actor Who Parlayed Her Dance Career Into Serious Movie Roles

  29-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sally Forrest, who died March 15 at age 86, “began studying dance at an early age and was signed to an MGM contract shortly after graduating from high school. She had several uncredited roles as a dancer before being cast as a woman who has a child out of wedlock in the 1949 drama ‘Not […]
  
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• Stuart Croft obituary

  29-03-2015 18:00
  
  My friend Stuart Croft, who has died of heart failure aged 44, was an influential and internationally recognised artist/film-maker whose work investigated the relationship between art and cinema.His signature looping narratives appropriated the visual language and production values of Hollywood into the space of the gallery. These unique sensibilities led Stuart to establish the Moving Image Studio and MA course at the Royal College of Art, in London. Continue reading...
  
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• Museums And Galleries Shutter As Yemen’s Political Unrest Turns To War

  29-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yemen’s artists, with photography a prominent art form that has produced several significant female photographers, were still working and producing interesting art, curators say. But ‘it is quite a challenge to be an artist in the country.'”
  
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• Jason Rhoades: The anarchic work of a man who's still inspiring long after death

  29-03-2015 14:08
  
  The first major UK exhibition of Jason Rhoades is surprisingly not in London but at the enterprising Baltic in Gateshead. Surprising, because at his premature death in 2006 Rhoades was already an art-world superstar, having been taken on by major galleries in America and Europe.
  
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• Los Carpinteros; Christina Mackie: The Filters – review

  29-03-2015 08:00
  
  Parasol Unit; Tate Britain, London
  Cuba’s Los Carpinteros unleash their acute wit and craftsmanship to exhilarating effect using Lego, carnival and a lot of tomatoesThe suits stretch away into the distance, 200 black jackets, dark ties and white shirts massed on a rack – a funeral march of identical men, timeless and hollow. They could be generic bureaucrats. But shot through the whole assembly from one end to the other is a gaping five-point hole in the chest. You can see right through thes
  
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• How Nazis’ stolen art sparked a battle for the Woman in Gold

  29-03-2015 01:05
  
  Helen Mirren’s new film sees her playing Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who took on the Austrian government in the fight for a Klimt painting that was looted from her familyOn the eve of the release of a film starring Dame Helen Mirren as the Jewish refugee who won a historic battle with the Austrian government over the ownership of a great painting, an expert at Christie’s has spoken of a force that is changing the shape of the international art market: the new understanding of the huge sc
  
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• Fifty Chefs exhibition: Photographer Katie Wilson documents the injuries sustained on the culinary front line

  29-03-2015 01:00
  
  When Katie Wilson started photographing London chefs 10 years ago, she was immediately drawn to their arms. "They had these amazing cuts and burns and it sparked my interest," she says. "What were they getting up to in the kitchen?" Wilson's resulting photographs of chefs and their arms feature in an exhibition called Fifty Chefs – the Hands that Feed London at the Londonewcastle gallery in Shoreditch.
  
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