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• English National Opera's big guns sing out against planned budget cuts

  07-02-2016 23:07
  
  Among the signatories are opera directors, conductors, musicians and singers
  
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• Why Is A Major Portland Museum Closing And Being Absorbed Into A College?

  07-02-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mills considers everything that has happened as the result of the museum’s original 2007 move into the Pearl District from its home on Southwest Corbett. That move wasn’t just geographic; it changed the culture of the museum (which had been known as Contemporary Crafts Gallery) as it raised its visibility and quality of exhibitions. And it was far more expensive. ‘I don’t think they ever recovered,’ Mills said.”
  
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• Directors Guild Awards Muddy The Oscar Waters Even More

  07-02-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Producers Guild of America gave its top prize to The Big Short and the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble went to Spotlight. But the DGA Award now gives a boost to The Revenant, the tale of a 19th century fur trading fighting for his life.”
  
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• Russian Modern art collection split by the Soviets to be reunited in Paris

  07-02-2016 22:00
  
  The collection of early Modern masterpieces amassed by Sergei Shchukin—the wealthy tsarist-era businessman and arts patron—will be reunited in an exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris this autumn. The works, including examples by Matisse and Picasso, were split during the Soviet regime and are now housed in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.News of the exhibition was revealed in Moscow on Friday at a news con
  
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• This Article Will Make You Question Everything About The Oscars, And The Sanity Of Those Who Want To Win One

  07-02-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year, with so many races up for grabs, the party circuit is wildly competitive – especially when you factor in that a huge chunk of a studio’s promotion budget used to be spent on buying ads in daily print trade papers. Now that Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are weeklies and online, that excess coinage is repurposed into flying talent to events.”
  
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• More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

  07-02-2016 20:30
  Argentina and Spain have returned 567 heritage objects to Ecuador, the country’s minister of culture and heritage, Guillaume Long, announced at a press conference on 3 February. The formal handover took place in Quito, the country’s capital, in the presence of Argentina’s ambassador to Ecuador, Alberto Alvarez Tufillo, and the Cultural Counselor of the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador, Luis García, who said: “The protection of the heritage goods is a pressing need, beca
  
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• Redefining ‘Gallery’ For 2016

  07-02-2016 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When it opens in mid-March, there will be no other commercial gallery like it in Los Angeles, New York or, for that matter, the rest of the Americas.”
  
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• Moorside: Developers launch competition to design visually beautiful nuclear power station

  07-02-2016 20:03
  
  Their reward will be £25,000 each in prize money
  
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• Tokyo: the city that came out of the shadows

  07-02-2016 19:15
  
  Daido Moriyama has spent his life obsessively photographing the dirty stairwells, neon signs and salarymen Japan’s capital in gritty black and white. Now, at 77, he’s exploding into glorious colour. Why?One of Daido Moriyama’s best-known images is of a stray dog he encountered on a street in Aomori in northern Japan. Taken in 1971, it has become a metaphor for his way of working, symbolising his relentless wanderings though the streets of Tokyo in search of the essence of the c
  
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• Shinjuku: the city that came out of the shadows

  07-02-2016 16:00
  
  Daido Moriyama has spent his life obsessively photographing the dirty stairwells, neon signs and salarymen of Tokyo in gritty black and white. Now, at 77, he’s exploding into glorious colour. Why?One of Daido Moriyama’s best-known images is of a stray dog he encountered on a street in Aomori in northern Japan. Taken in 1971, it has become a metaphor for his way of working, symbolising his relentless wanderings though the streets of Tokyo in search of the essence of the city – a
  
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• Chevalier de Saint-Georges: The man who got under Mozart's skin

  07-02-2016 15:55
  
  Was Chevalier de Saint-Georges, 'the Black Mozart' and the composer's nemesis, the inspiration for The Magic Flute's most villainous character
  
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• States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness review – walking in a waking dream

  07-02-2016 09:00
  
  Wellcome Collection, London
  From gothic nightmares and early neural imaging to the operating theatre, an inspired exhibition explores the mysterious territory at the borders of wakefulnessWhat does thought look like? In the early days of photography a French army officer called Louis Darget believed “nervous fluid” passed out of the brain and the fingertips and that the new medium could capture the ghost of that fluid in pictures. To this end, Darget spent most of a long secondary ca
  
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• Ben Rivers: ‘You find abandoned sets from films like Lawrence of Arabia just standing there in the desert’

  07-02-2016 09:00
  
  The award-winning artist on how a film location in Morocco inspired his latest installationBorn in 1972 in Somerset, Ben Rivers studied sculpture then moved into photography and film. He won the Fipresci international critics prize at the Venice film festival in 2011 for Two Years at Sea . Last year he created the multi-projection installation The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, co-commissioned by Artangel, in the BBC’s since largely demolished television centre in London. This month the instal
  
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• Memorial to man who made the Mallard runs into row over a duck

  07-02-2016 01:05
  
  A change to the statue of Sir Nigel Gresley, designer of the world’s fastest steam locomotive, sparks storm on Facebook and TwitterIt seemed such a good idea at the time – a dignified event to mark the life of one of Britain’s greatest engineers, designer of a much-loved transport icon. But now the event is threatening to unleash an undignified battle involving superglue and rubber ducks.A statue of Sir Nigel Gresley is due to be unveiled in April, marking the 75th anniversary
  
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• The Magic Flute, Coliseum, review: McBurney returns even more brilliant than before

  07-02-2016 00:25
  
  The pervasive references to Shakespeare's Tempest are entirely justified by the way this drama plays out
  
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• Manual Labours: The Complaining Body: Exhibition explores the fine arts of moaning and listening

  07-02-2016 00:11
  
  Researchers have spent 18 months studying what happens to the body when you complain, when you are complained at – and when you have to suppress complaints
  
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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Little-known picture by Pre-Raphaelite artist goes on public display at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery

  07-02-2016 00:02
  
  A portrait of the Pre-Raphaelite's muse may have been kept out of sight to keep the artist's stock high
  
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