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• The Best (And Possibly Only) Article About Justin Bieber That You’ll Ever Need To Read

  14-02-2016 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s unsettling to share a personal story, or ask a long-winded question, and be met with Justin Bieber’s silent, cool-eyed stare the entire time you’re talking. Justin Bieber makes eye contact like a person who has been told that eye contact is very, very important.”
  
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• Making An Hour-Long Musical Every Week On A TV Schedule

  14-02-2016 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The development process for stage musicals is years and years to get 12 or 15 songs onstage,’ he says. With ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,’ the team ‘sometimes have just a few days to write 2-3 new ones.’ That’s fine with him, as his philosophy is that ‘all creative work takes exactly as long as the amount of time you’re given. It’s amazing how much you can get done if you have to.'”
  
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• Prado pulls two works from landmark Bosch exhibition

  14-02-2016 22:00
  
  Nearly five centuries after the Netherlands went to war against Spain over independence, hostilities have broken out over a painter whom both sides have long admired and collected—Hieronymus Bosch. After a row over attributions, the Museo del Prado has taken the unusual step of cancelling two loans for the artist’s greatest retrospective, which opened at the weekend at the Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.The Bosch show represents an extraordinary achievement—in
  
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• Paris Photo LA cancelled due to low sales

  14-02-2016 22:00
  
  Reed Exhibitions, the company that has organised three edition of Paris Photo Los Angeles, announced on 15 February that it has cancelled this year’s fair, due to open 29 April and run through 1 May, citing a lack of sales. The young California fair, held in the Paramount film studios lot, is an offshoot of the longer-running French event. But as we had reported last year, it had started to lose some of its international flavour, a bad sign for its sustainability.“Despite the abunda
  
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• No Surprise: The New ‘Harry Potter’ Book Isn’t Out ‘Til July, But Is Already A Bestseller

  14-02-2016 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s actually going to be the rehearsal script for a Harry Potter-universe play opening in London on July 31, but that hasn’t stopped the book from hitting bestseller status based on pre-orders in the days after the announcement happened.
  
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• James Levine And The Met Trying To Figure Out The Timing Of Retirement

  14-02-2016 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The question of Mr. Levine’s status has exposed tensions at the Met, dividing supporters who would like to see him stay on and members of the company and board who believe it is time for him to relinquish his role. They fear that the lack of a strong musical hand could leave the house adrift as opera struggles for relevance and the Met’s finances remain precarious.”
  
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• How Do You Design The Architecture For A Holocaust Movie?

  14-02-2016 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Long takes — some of which were three and four minutes long, and executed with a hand-held camera — meant that many of the sets would need to be complete rooms that could accommodate 360 degrees worth of shooting. This required Rajk to recreate a Nazi crematorium in an abandoned 1912 warehouse on the outskirts of Budapest.”
  
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• Vincent van Gogh: True colours of artist's paintings revealed by scientists

  14-02-2016 19:02
  
  Chemical analysis of microscopic fragment taken from one of the three studied paintings reveals the true colours
  
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• What Happens To A Literary Author Who Has A Successful First Book

  14-02-2016 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My ambition is personal. I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed. We’ve seen that. We’ve been succeeding since we were sneaking to learn how to read. We’ve been showing ourselves to be exceptional, and it doesn’t change anything. I understand that burden; I do not feel that burden. I feel the burden on the page when writing a story to do justice to the black people I am rendering, but I don’t necessarily believe that my successes or
  
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• Nancy Campbell: Why I gave up a life in London to become a writer on a speck of land in Greenland

  14-02-2016 16:19
  
  When Nancy Campbell became writer in residence at a local museum on a speck of land, off a slightly larger one, off the coast of Greenland, she imagined sheer isolation in an ancient fishing community. But what could she, a poet, offer?
  
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• British Art Show 8: Computers and cameras dominate and leave painting and sculpture out in the cold

  14-02-2016 15:45
  
  Since its inception, every five years different curators have taken on the challenge of presenting a snapshot of the contemporary art scene
  
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• How Eugène Delacroix's flame still burns bright in the National Gallery's latest blockbuster

  14-02-2016 15:31
  
  He took safe, 'respectable' subjects then electrified them with colours that take your breath away
  
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• The hottest couples in the arts today: From Annie Clark and Cara Delevingne to Alfie Brown and Jessie Cave

  14-02-2016 15:24
  
  When two heads are better than one
  
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• Art on the box: art stars, cities and insider info on The Art Show

  14-02-2016 11:14
  
  Accessible and appealing TV programmes on art are few and far between, so we’re looking forward to a new series called The Art Show, which could break the mould. The eight-part project, produced by the UK company Infinity Creative Media, features five presenters including Kate Bryan, the former director of the Art15 fair, and the artist Charming Baker, who meet the art stars of today (Jason de Caires Taylor is seen making sculpture casts for his new underwater museum off the coast of Lanz
  
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• The 10 best love paintings

  14-02-2016 10:00
  
  In honour of Valentine’s Day, cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance – and its dark sides – on canvasLove is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings. Rembrandt’s masterpiece is loving in its every brushstroke. About his young couple we know very little – who they were, whether she was a bride, whether they were actually Jewish – but this image goes beyond
  
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• Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway review – pulsating Scandinavian nature

  14-02-2016 09:00
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  Showing for the first time outside Scandinavia, Nikolai Astrup’s wild and wonderful landscapes are a revelationWild, strange and abruptly beautiful, the paintings of Nikolai Astrup carry you to Norway in an instant. The opening gallery at Dulwich plunges the viewer straight into icy fjords and towering skies, meadows starred with marigolds and buttercups, pine-dark forests, glassy reflections in still lakes and the midnight sun hanging above white clapboard
  
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• Beauty reimagined: 500 years of Botticelli

  14-02-2016 09:00
  
  Botticelli’s Birth of Venus has captivated us for centuries. On the eve of a stunning V&A exhibition, we ask four experts what beauty means personally to themWhen I embarked on my project The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN in 1990, I had a series of operations that had never been done before. I wasn’t using plastic surgery to bring me closer to a norm of beauty. I wanted a procedure that would disrupt the very idea of what beauty is.When people describe me without seeing me, I soun
  
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