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• Who Has The Rights To This Picasso – The Actual Private Owner, Or Spain?

  11-10-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the heart of the matter are questions that many countries are now grappling with: What constitutes a national treasure? And what are the limits of private property rights when it comes to precious art?”
  
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• Paramount Starts A Special YouTube Channel Where You Can Stream Its ‘Classics’ For Free

  11-10-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in a strange new world. A decade ago, the mere thought of streaming a movie online seemed foolhardy and weird. Now, a major movie studio has created a YouTube channel that offers viewers the chance to watch a selection of their films for free. The Paramount Vault is here and it feels like a big deal.”
  
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• The Grim Toll Of Workplace Injuries On A Principal Dancer

  11-10-2015 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dancing wasn’t the primary problem; Ms. Somogyi, 38, wasn’t sure if she would be able to walk normally again.”
  
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• Here’s The Shortlist For The Samuel Johnson Award

  11-10-2015 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a judging session described as ‘truly contentious,’ [a biography of Ted Hughes] was joined on the shortlist by five other titles, with subjects including autism, the digital age and Guantánamo Bay.”
  
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• The TV Series That’s A Full-On Broadway-esque Musical, Pretty Much Every Episode

  11-10-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s A Musical, the kind in which characters burst into song and dance without warning, in which extras spontaneously transform into backup dancers, in which characters treat sets not as locations for action, but as props.”
  
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• 'Hallucinogenic' Lucian Freud drawing on sale after being off radar since 1948

  11-10-2015 19:20
  
  Thought to be his only self-portrait to feature first wife Kitty Garman, its value is estimated at £600,000-£800,000A startlingly intense Lucian Freud drawing not seen in public for nearly 70 years has emerged having been largely unknown to experts, thought to be the only self-portrait to also feature his first wife Kitty Garman.Freud drew the work, Flyda and Arvid, in 1947 and gifted it shortly after to his friend Sonia Brownell, best known for marrying George Orwell on his deathbed
  
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• Making ‘Diversity’ The Norm Instead Of The Niche In Theatre

  11-10-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A single play may tick the diversity box, but it’s definitely not inclusion – that only comes when theatres commit to the development and support of playwrights over a much longer period, and consistently programme a range of plays that give the space for a critical mass of writers to emerge and dig in for the long term.”
  
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• The Newest Trash Dump: Turkey’s 2,400-Year-Old Tombs

  11-10-2015 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today the tombs are Fethiye’s main tourist attraction. Which begs the question: how did they get to be filled with so much trash before authorities ever even noticed or took action?”
  
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• In Weird Music News, A Former Kmart Employee Has Digitized His Collection Of Kmart Corporate Tapes Of The Early 1990s

  11-10-2015 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every month, corporate office issued a cassette to be played over the store speaker system — canned elevator-type music with advertisements seeded every few tracks. Around 1991, the muzak was replaced with mainstream hits, and the following year, new tapes began arriving weekly.”
  
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• How LitCrawls Have Made Readings Much – MUCH – Less Boring

  11-10-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We asked the staff to turn down the music, and they just stared at us and said we needed to talk to the manager, who was not there. There were about five readers, and a cluster of people who wanted to hear them. TV screens were locked on some kind of game, the music was blasting. We were trapped. And then, hats off to the late David Poindexter, publisher of MacAdam, he grabbed a chair and hoisted it over his head, and we all followed him through the bar and out onto the sidewalk.”
  
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• Dismantled Banksy ‘Dismaland’ Parts Head To Refugee Camp In France

  11-10-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It has all been taken down now and we are left with huge sheets of wood which we can use to build the shelters. Dismaland is also sending a team of chippies and builders out to the camp, who will be creating any structures that we need with the materials.”
  
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• Artwork To Honor And Protest The Missing 43 Students In Mexico

  11-10-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In this environment, the 43 have become more than just a number, they have become a symbol of everything that is wrong with Mexico’s corrupt ruling classes, a breaking point for a people who have had enough.”
  
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• If Broadway Saved NY, What Can Theatre Do For Chicago?

  11-10-2015 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Are there lessons here for Chicago? Sure there are. But it’s worth noting first that what one urban reformer sees as an improvement, another sees as the destruction of an indigenous culture. Riedel barely notes this issue, since the theater owners are the heroes of his story, but if you walk through Times Square today, as I frequently do, it has lost much of its character. “
  
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• JR: ‘I realised I was giving people a voice’

  11-10-2015 10:30
  
  He’s the street artist they call the ‘French Banksy’, his provocative, epic murals appearing overnight, as if from nowhere. From the Paris banlieues where he grew up to New York and Shanghai, JR has a mission – to make us see those we have made invisible• Can art change the world? The work of street artist JR – in picturesLittle more than 10 years ago, the Parisian photographer JR was what’s usually called a vandal. He pasted things illegally in the stree
  
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• Goya: The Portraits review – the artist in an extraordinary new light

  11-10-2015 09:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  This spectacular show of Goya’s weird, wilful and radically truthful portraits brings him out of the shadows at lastSome shows have the power to change your sense of an artist for ever. This is one such momentous event. There have been many other close-focus shows – the black paintings, the private albums, The Disasters of War, Goya early or late – but this is the first to focus entirely on the portraits, and the effect is to draw Goya out of the darkne
  
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• Frank Auerbach review – 60 years of trying to paint

  11-10-2015 09:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  This absorbing retrospective of Auerbach’s studies of friends, family and local streets over six decades reveals an intense, ongoing quest for understandingThis time last year, I walked around the V&A’s Constable exhibition with Frank Auerbach, listening to his thoughts on the master of English pastoral, while probing him for insights into his own methods. As well as Constable’s famous handling of Suffolk field and cloud it was the sheer “doggedne
  
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• British Art Show 8 review – a long haul in art’s touring caravan

  11-10-2015 09:00
  
  Leeds Art Gallery
  There are fine morals, but few thrills in this eclectic, 42-artist wandering exhibition, which rounds up the best of UK art every five yearsAt Leeds Art Gallery, the insects are multiplying by the day for the sake of art in a perspex ant farm. Moss is growing moist and green on the dashboard of a derelict Mini. In the 19th-century galleries, an LED sign flashes up bursts of outrage from the internet – Lance Armstrong is a cheat, a liar, never trust the bloke again. Perhap
  
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• Can art change the world? The work of street artist JR – in pictures

  11-10-2015 00:55
  
  They call him the ‘French Banksy’… images from the world’s most creative activist Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(paulus doesn’t want to acknowledge me because he thinks he’s cain from the bible)

  11-10-2015 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  paulus walks down the stairs. he sees me. he doesn’t say anything to me.he’s as mystified about his behavior as i am.i’m a horrible person. he thinks i want his money. he doesn’t have any but he persists to think it. his brother is the one who has all the money and he doesn’t talk to him.paulus doesn’t want to acknowledge me because he thinks he’s cain from the bible.paulus has a moldy greenish white growth on his face. i think it’s a birthmark.he
  
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• Untitled(What is real in this life of appearances?)

  11-10-2015 00:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  P has Lebanese blue eyes and an handsome nose.
  When a dude cums in my asshole I fart cum, P said.
  P pushed and wiggled the 8 inch dildo in my asshole. It felt like I was going to shit. I worried about it.
  What’s it like at your dad’s place, I said.His wife was upset that we had too much stuff, P said.At least the meals are good, P said.P had to move into her father’s ranch house in Salem when her gay lover began stealing small items from Fred Meyers and Whole Food.P hadn’
  
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• Shunga exhibition defies 'pornography' taboos to expose Japan to its erotic past

  11-10-2015 00:32
  
  Given the glut of online smut, it seems odd that a collection of woodblock prints still has the power to get pulses racing
  
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