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• How One Ailey Dancer Spends A Normal Day ‘Off’

  13-12-2015 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though it is rare for dancers to perform into their 40s, Ms. Boykin said, ‘We’re not dancing late, we’re dancing just right.'”
  
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• A Former Field Museum Employee Is Accused Of Stealing $900,000

  13-12-2015 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The woman would issue temporary membership cards to people who bought memberships as they entered the museum, DeThorne said, and then not turn in the cash. ‘She would get cash, make a temporary ID card and not enter (the cash) into the file,’ he said.”
  
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• Banksy Has Had It With Anti-Immigration Rhetoric

  13-12-2015 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the city of Calais he created a parody version of Théodore Géricault’s painting ‘The Raft of the Medusa.’ Banksy’s version shows immigrants crowded onto a raft, reaching out to a passing cruise ship.”
  
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• What Do You Do When ISIS Steals Your Anti-War Art To Use For Propaganda?

  13-12-2015 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has a twisted relationship with art. It understands its significance to humanity, and so it is unsurprising that such a brutal and nihilistic organization would want to wipe it out.”
  
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• Assemble and Granby Four Streets community land trust offer a better model for living | Letter

  13-12-2015 19:43
  
  It’s great that “non-artists” Assemble won the Turner prize not just by “ignoring the art market” but also by tackling urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool, with good design (Report, 7 December). The Turner Prize judges rightly praised Assemble’s “ground-up approach to regeneration, city planning and development in opposition to corporate gentrification”. However, it was local residents, including those running Granby Four Streets community land
  
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• What’s Up With All Of The Arthur Miller Revivals?

  13-12-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is Miller’s legacy, finally: the hope that, against all odds, human beings will somehow still strive for that perfectibility in our troubled world. ‘It’s not enough to feel guilty and to weep,’ said Wilson. ‘Miller is saying we must step forward and do whatever is in our power to do.'”
  
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• Derek Hyatt obituary

  13-12-2015 18:42
  
  Landscape painter inspired by the rugged beauty of his native YorkshireThe painter Derek Hyatt, who has died aged 84, found in the landscapes of Yorkshire a subject of unending variety. Turning his back on London and on fashion, Hyatt produced distinctive, richly coloured paintings occasioned by events that he called “meetings on the moor” – the movement of a distant figure through a bright field of hay or the sudden appearance of a kestrel against the sunset. His idiom oscilla
  
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• The Consequences Of ‘Peak TV’

  13-12-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fact, shows are having a tough time getting canceled — even broadcast networks are simply ‘trimming number of episodes’ from their low-rated fall shows, instead of immediately pulling them off the schedule.”
  
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• The Shakespeare Flood That Crests In 2016

  13-12-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Bard will be everywhere. Theater companies, orchestras, cinemas and opera houses are presenting his works—and works inspired by him—in venues ranging from London and Duluth, Minn., to Tehran and South Sudan. A New Orleans jazz funeral will mark his death. The hashtag #Shakespeare400 will beckon Shakespeare-lovers on Twitter. And a publishing frenzy has already begun.”
  
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• A History Play At BAM In The Age Of Hamilton

  13-12-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He was working on the 2000 film ‘The Beach’ when one of his co-stars, the actress Tilda Swinton, asked him what he would like to leave as a legacy. … ‘You know what actors are like,’ he said dryly. ‘I just wanted to do a costume drama.'”
  
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• Drawing As A Tool For Justice (No, Not Courtroom Sketches)

  13-12-2015 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a long time I felt like going to protests was the same as — you know, when people go to church but they don’t really believe in God? But they think, oh, better just hedge my bets. I don’t necessarily think this is going to do any good, but I really ought to do it anyway. It’s the right thing to do.”
  
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• Garanca/Vignoles, Wigmore Hall, review: Elina Garanca and Roger Vignoles excel

  13-12-2015 15:20
  
  The wonder of this recital was that Vignoles had stepped in at just two days' notice
  
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• Classical Music Can Soothe, But Also Provoke

  13-12-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Making music cannot halt terrorism, heal the environment or solve the world’s other great problems. But in its insistence on cooperation from its practitioners and demand for mindfulness from its listeners, music can help open dialogue. From the practice of listening can come a little understanding, then concern and maybe even a ping of compassion.”
  
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• The Wordless Ode To China’s War Dead That Will Only Get One Performance

  13-12-2015 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Scholars estimate that 10 million to 30 million Chinese died from 1937 to 1945. The tragedy was far broader than most Chinese realize and despite many official accounts is still poorly understood, Mr. Wang said.”
  
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• The Secret History Of One Hundred Years Of Solitude

  13-12-2015 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The house, in a quiet part of Mexico City, had a study within, and in the study he found a solitude he had never known before and would never know again. Cigarettes (he smoked 60 a day) were on the worktable. LPs were on the record player: Debussy, Bartók, A Hard Day’s Night. Stuck up on the wall were charts of the history of a Caribbean town he called Macondo and the genealogy of the family he named the Buendías. Outside, it was the 1960s; inside, it was the deep time
  
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• How Japanese designers pioneered gender-neutral dressing

  13-12-2015 13:19
  
  30 years ago, they confronted norms – and the rest of the industry still has a lot to learn from them
  
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• Laura Cumming: the best art of 2015

  13-12-2015 10:30
  
  It was a wonderful year, as Goya’s extraordinary portraits got together, Ai Weiwei broke free and Eric Ravilious took us to the skies• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullGoya’s portraits at the National Gallery bowled me over in a year already thronged with surprises. It was not just that the show unleashed such a concatenation of self-portraits – Goya as tyro, as wide boy, as Beethoven with a face like thunder, as dying man brought back from the brink of o
  
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• Pirates, explorers, empire-makers, slavers: how great works of art tell story of Britain’s past

  13-12-2015 01:05
  
  A series of acclaimed exhibitions is holding a mirror up to UK history, from Celtic invasion to Enlightenment ideas to imperial conquestAsk the question of the week – what does it mean to be British? – and the answer you might get from our metropolitan art galleries might be at once polymorphic and paradoxical, but also strangely consoling, in the way of the best culture, about the dark times in which we live.From the British Museum (The Celts), to the V&A (European Arts and Craf
  
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