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• The Thames Garden Bridge Loses Its Allure

  24-05-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It requires much trust to think that the proposed Thames garden bridge will be an asset for Britain.”
  
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• Has Russia Purged Faculty Members At Its Oldest University?

  24-05-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In March 27, outside the baroque 18th century building that houses the university administration, about a dozen Smolny students held one-person pickets, the maximum size Russia allows for an unsanctioned protest. Police took down names of demonstrators, participants said, but no one was detained.”
  
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• What Robert DeNiro Told Graduating Arts Students At NYU

  24-05-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You made it … and you’re fucked.”
  
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• Is Brad Bird Of Incredibles And Ratatouille (And Tomorrowland) Fame Pretty Much An Ayn Rand Objectivist?

  24-05-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How has Bird been able to get away with labelling the majority of his audience inferior cogs who are only impeding their superiors? Being a legitimately brilliant director helps.”
  
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• The Brazil series by Bob Dylan: New series of paintings suggests he shouldn't give up day job

  24-05-2015 20:52
  
  Last week a new exhibition of hand-signed, limited-edition prints based on recent paintings by Bob Dylan went on sale in a gallery in Mayfair. As far as subject matter is concerned, this is a new departure for one of life’s eternal ramblers.
  
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• Using OpenTable To Book And Pay For Your Meals Out Means An End To Anonymity

  24-05-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Restaurants have always doled out preferential treatment to the ‘best’ customers — but now, they’ll be able to brand them with a specific dollar sign the second they walk in the door.”
  
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• James Rhodes: How the pianist's legal battle to stop the injunction of his memoirs showed him how the law can punish the innocent

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  When paedophiles say to their victims, as they all do in one form or another, “If you ever speak about this, unimaginably bad things will happen to you”, what they are doing is perhaps on one level even worse than the physical act of abuse itself. They are manipulating their victims into being complicit in the abuse. Forcing the victim to take responsibility for protecting the abuser means that every time you smile, shake hands, speak with and act normally in front of the abuser – as you
  
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• James Rhodes: How the pianist's legal battle to stop the injunction of his memoirs showed him how the law can punish the incident

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  When paedophiles say to their victims, as they all do in one form or another, “If you ever speak about this, unimaginably bad things will happen to you”, what they are doing is perhaps on one level even worse than the physical act of abuse itself. They are manipulating their victims into being complicit in the abuse. Forcing the victim to take responsibility for protecting the abuser means that every time you smile, shake hands, speak with and act normally in front of the abuser – as you
  
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• 'I was raped as an infant, and only now can I tell my story': How James Rhodes fought the law courts in a battle to be heard

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  When paedophiles say to their victims, as they all do in one form or another, “If you ever speak about this, unimaginably bad things will happen to you”, what they are doing is perhaps on one level even worse than the physical act of abuse itself. They are manipulating their victims into being complicit in the abuse. Forcing the victim to take responsibility for protecting the abuser means that every time you smile, shake hands, speak with and act normally in front of the abuser – as you
  
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• 'I was raped as a child, and only now can I tell my story': How James Rhodes fought the law courts in a battle to be heard

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  When paedophiles say to their victims, as they all do in one form or another, “If you ever speak about this, unimaginably bad things will happen to you”, what they are doing is perhaps on one level even worse than the physical act of abuse itself. They are manipulating their victims into being complicit in the abuse. Forcing the victim to take responsibility for protecting the abuser means that every time you smile, shake hands, speak with and act normally in front of the abuser – as you
  
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• The Guardian view on the new £20 note: make room for William Morris | Editorial

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  There is a strong field of contenders to be on the money, from Hogarth to Hepworth. But the many talents and political commitment of one bearded visage sets it apartThe quest has begun to find a face for a new £20 note, to go into circulation within five years. Public nominations are being sought until 19 July. Bank of England governor Mark Carney has narrowed the field to a (deceased) figure from the visual arts – to include architecture, film-making, craft and design.There is a rich se
  
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• An Alternative (To NPR And The NYT) Summer Reading List

  24-05-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While there is nothing wrong with the books they have chosen, it seems they would have you believe that only white people are writing books worthy of summer reading.” (You can also find alternative summer reading lists for kids here.)
  
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• London Festival of Baroque Music, St John Smith's Square, review: Enlightenment after a drab start

  24-05-2015 20:12
  
  Lindsay Kemp is to be congratulated for preserving his endangered annual festival, now renamed the London Festival of Baroque Music and as adventurous as ever.
  
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• Stand-Up Comedy Is Catching On, Sort Of, In China

  24-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When most audience members watch Wong perform, on the set of ‘Is It True?’ or at one of his theater shows, they’re not just seeing him for the first time: It’s their first exposure to live stand-up, period. They’re not always sure how to react.”
  
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• Cuba’s Open – For A Cultural Feeding Frenzy At The Havana Biennial

  24-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The artists there are very excited and they’re going all out. They’re looking at cultivating a better connection to the art world.”
  
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• What It’s Like To Be A Deaf Novelist

  24-05-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My first novel has recently become an audiobook to which I will not listen. The characters have been assigned voices and accents and inflections that I’ll never hear.”
  
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• How The Heck Can Arts Management Actually Reflect The Racial And Ethnic Diversity Of The U.S.?

  24-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Adopt actual social service initiatives. Organizations should shy away from an exclusive approach and move more towards a ‘for the people and (inspired) by the people’ methodology. It’s about inviting people in that may not even know they want to engage with the arts.”
  
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• These Are Ruins That Even ISIS Can’t Destroy

  24-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Decay and loss is the point. If ISIS knocks down the columns, or dynamites the carved lion’s head I found lying around that day, the disaster will be survivable. … I’ll take some consolation knowing the site has been explored and recorded by waves of archaeologists for more than a century. We know Palmyra’s secrets, […]
  
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• So, *Are* College Students Customers Of Higher Education?

  24-05-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nope. “That analogy needs to die. It needs to be drowned in the world’s largest bathtub. It needs a George R.R. Martin–esque bloodbath of a demise.”
  
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• How Juilliard Is Changing Early Music – And Contemporary Music, Too

  24-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After just five years our students now play as regulars or ‘deps’ – or stand-ins – in pretty much all of the main North American period instrument orchestras, as well as in Europe and in their own new groups. Will it one day reach saturation point? I don’t know. But we certainly haven’t come close […]
  
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• Artists Need To Be Able To Take Risks, But How Can That Work Without A Welfare State?

  24-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s not much point hanging a big welcome sign above the box office if the stage door is clearly barred to anyone without a financial safety net.”
  
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• Can The Germans Fix Opera In New York?

  24-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Accustomed to hearing opera at the Met, where the average attendee is more likely than not on Medicare, I was bewildered at the number of kids—high schoolers barely over Platée’s recommended minimum age of 14—crowding the auditorium.”
  
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• A Story About Brothers, Rams And A Remote Iceland Valley Won At The Cannes Festival’s ‘Sidebar’

  24-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of course it did. And “the top prizes for the main selection will be awarded on Sunday night during the closing ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.”
  
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• Marina Picasso: selling my grandfather's art is a way of helping me heal

  24-05-2015 15:39
  
  Famous artist’s granddaughter will auction ceramics made by the man who never seemed to care for her in a bid to finally leave behind a miserable childhood Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter is to sell one of the most extensive collections of the artist’s ceramics in an attempt to help her turn the page on a traumatic, miserable childhood.Marina Picasso is selling, through Sotheby’s, a remarkable group of one-off plates, tiles, vases and other small sculptural figures that her grandfather mad
  
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• The Bookstore That ‘Wimpy Kid’ Built

  24-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With this foray into retailing, Mr. Kinney is joining a handful of authors who are injecting cash and a dose of literary celebrity into what seemed a dying trade.”
  
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• Should Opera Singers Stop Providing Printed Translations?

  24-05-2015 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In hearing the texts we focused on the words, their meanings and — importantly — their ideas on their own. We listened attentively during these spoken passages and then, with the texts fresh in our minds, we listened more actively to the music that both singer and pianist produced. And, as Blythe wanted, we were […]
  
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• The English National Ballet Prepares To Move To Its New Home In East London

  24-05-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The aim is to ‘create a new space that allows us to produce and rehearse amazing work,’ said the ENB’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo, adding that the facilities could also be used by other organisations. She said: ‘I want the space to echo to the sound of creative Britain.'”
  
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• Why Jhumpa Lahiri Quit The U.S. For Italy – And Wrote A Book In Italian

  24-05-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a lifetime of feeling that she never quite fitted into either India or the US, Lahiri feels a casa (‘at home’) in Rome. She recently wrote about her Italian metamorphosis in a ‘linguistic autobiography’, titled In Altre Parole (‘In Other Words’), which hit Italian bookstores in January.”
  
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• Corin Sworn: Silent Sticks review – dramatic return for Martin Guerre

  24-05-2015 08:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Max Mara prize-winner Corin Sworn proves a master of disguise in this show about the infamous French impostorCorin Sworn, deserving winner of the latest Max Mara art prize, is fascinated by the strange tale of the French peasant Martin Guerre. The reader may remember the plot, if not the film starring Gerard Depardieu. In 1548, Guerre was accused of stealing grain from his uncle. He ran away to fight in the hundred years war. Years passed and then one day, when even h
  
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• Mathijs Labadie & Roel van Tour capture realism and surrealism of Rotterdam's public pools

  24-05-2015 01:00
  
  'I'm not much of a swimmer any more – my belly doesn't allow it," laughs Roel van Tour when asked whether "The Pool", a project he worked on with photography partner Mathijs Labadie earlier this year, was influenced by his own watery escapades. "I joined a swimming group a few years ago – it was a thrill to clear the mind by swimming lengths – but now I only go with my child, which has more to do with play than sports.
  
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• Keith Tyson & Anita Zabludowicz: 'She texted me to say 'Put your trainers on, I've entered you in a marathon today''

  24-05-2015 01:00
  
  Keith Tyson, 45
  
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