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• Sea change in Turkey’s attitude towards its Byzantine heritage

  27-03-2016 23:00
  
  The recent opening in Istanbul of two prestigious research centres dedicated to Byzantine studies—the first in Turkey—may help the country to finally claim its place at the forefront of research into the art, archaeology and 1,000-year history of Byzantium. Modern Turkey has long struggled with its approach to the Byzantine period. Some Turkish nationalists regard the 11 centuries of Byzantine rule that collapsed with the Ottoman conquest of 1453 as the “history of the Greeks&
  
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• Doryun Chong, deputy director of M+ museum, on key developments

  27-03-2016 23:00
  Doryun Chong, the deputy director of M+ museum, tells us about key developments at the Hong Kong institution
  
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• The Existential Arts – This Week’s Best Reads On ArtsJournal

  27-03-2016 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week’s best reads oddly hover around existential questions. What arts organizations should exist? Does truth exist? Can theatre really change anything, and should it even try? Canada’s new government makes a big existential bet on the arts. And do our tools define art?
  
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• 'Dump Trump': Artist Hanksy on the 'grassroots (bowel) movement' that is defining the 2016 US presidential race

  27-03-2016 20:47
  
  Long before it was an anti-Trump avatar, the poop emoji was a soft toy and a Halloween costume. This week, a recipe for poop emoji-shaped marshmallow treats became a viral hit
  
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• Making Art About A Community In Crisis

  27-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They wanted me to tell the public how they showed love. How they sacrificed for each other. How they took care of a disabled homie, gave his family money after he was crippled by a gunshot blast. Or how they would pay for his funeral if he was killed. How they would discourage younger siblings from joining the gang. How they stuck by each other. They had their own code of love. I promised to write about it.”
  
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• The Hero Architect Who Built Fine Public Housing In London – And The Penguin Pool At The Zoo

  27-03-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lubetkin wanted buildings to empower people. ‘Architecture can be a potent weapon,’ he wrote, ‘a committed driving force on the side of enlightenment, aiming however indirectly at the transformation of our present make-believe society, where images outstrip reality and rewards outpace achievement.'”
  
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• Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Has Become A Video Game Impresario

  27-03-2016 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Justice O’Connor’s own passions and priorities were central to the development of a number of the games — among them Supreme Decision, in which students take on the role of an imaginary Supreme Court justice who must cast the deciding vote in a case.”
  
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• Clap Between Movements, Wear A T-Shirt, Whatever, Just Come To The Symphony

  27-03-2016 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They know they’re doing their jobs when there is clapping between movements: They got someone who has never experienced classical music into a seat at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall in Akron. And they’ve enticed another person away from his or her smartphone, laptop, iPad or other device for live music.”
  
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• What Happens When Debut Novelists Make Risky, Assured Choices?

  27-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everything is a choice that seems like it could make the whole house of cards fall down — unless you don’t live in a web of doubt. But I write in a dark room of doubt.”
  
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• Theatre Collective In Minneapolis To Disband After A Decade, Saying Mission Is Fulfilled

  27-03-2016 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since 2006, the Collective has given emerging Minneapolis-based playwrights the opportunity to have complete creative control over their productions.”
  
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• Ellen Seligman, The Beloved Editor Of Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen And Many More Canadians, Has Died

  27-03-2016 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Books she edited won a staggering 23 Governor-General’s Literary Awards, four Man Booker Prizes, and six Scotiabank Giller Prizes, more than any other editor in Canadian history. She guided the careers of countless young writers, as well, and brought the work of many heralded international writers to Canada.”
  
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• The Frick’s Garden Is Safe, But The Museum Needs A Qualified Architect

  27-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum returns with a new plan — with some old goals still intact. The Frick family rooms previously off-limits to visitors will be opened to the public for the first time. There will be a renovation of underground space and a revised layout for visitor circulation, to create seamless movement from the museum to its reference library.”
  
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• How Did The World’s Worst Opera Singer Find Redemption, And Fame?

  27-03-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The New York socialite and amateur opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins was a popular joke in her own time, but more than 70 years after her death she has earned her place in the cultural pantheon as the inspiration for at least two successful stage shows, and this spring, two rival films.”
  
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• After Police Broke Open The Door And The University Closed The Station For Six Weeks, This Classical Music Station Is Back

  27-03-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of the station’s 45,000 listeners grew alarmed over the past six weeks when the station ceased live broadcasts — and played nothing but canned programming.”
  
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• Australia’s Eerieness Feeds A Wave Of 21st Century Horror

  27-03-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Australia broadcasts this laid-back easiness but it is really a very conservative country. … Art takes off in those periods when you’re being stifled and oppressed. There is a sort of darkness that lurks [here] somewhere.”
  
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• The Lost History Of African American Performance

  27-03-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was an inescapable sense that they’d be letting down more than themselves if they failed. An unfair pressure to put on anybody. Also an exciting one, for the people involved. I kept thinking of one of those movies where they’re trying to lift something out of the desert, some buried archaeological monument, and everyone’s wondering if the ropes will hold. Maybe it will fall and shatter.”
  
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• Why Are We Still Obsessed With The Brontë Sisters?

  27-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the moment Jane Eyre was published in 1847 they have exerted an almost hypnotic pull: where other literary sensations flash bright, then fade to earth, the Brontës endure, their stories adapted again and again for both stage and screen.”
  
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• The Sheep Steal The Opera

  27-03-2016 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Simply getting hold of so many stage-ready sheep was an exceptionally difficult bit of opera casting, even in an era in which great Verdi singers are rare and true Wagnerian heldentenors are almost nonexistent. You cannot simply call the usual power-agents in New York or London.”
  
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• What Will Happen To Georgia’s Film Industry If The Governor Signs An Anti-LGBT Law?

  27-03-2016 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It won’t be good: “Disney, Netflix, The Weinstein Company have all threatened to boycott Georgia if the bill is signed and Viacom, Time Warner, Fox, Sony, MGM, CBS, Comcast/NBC Universal and many other studios have spoken out against the bill.”
  
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• After A Fair Amount Of, Uh, Feedback, Robert DeNiro Pulls Anti-Vaccine Documentary From Tribeca Film Festival

  27-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said on Saturday that he believed ‘the entire board as well as Mr. De Niro have learned a lot in the last several days.'”
  
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• How Scarlatti Was Influenced By World Music – And Influenced A Modern Choreographer

  27-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Scarlatti felt overshadowed by his composer father Alessandro and so left Italy to accept a position in what at that time must have seemed the far-flung and distant country of Portugal.”
  
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• The National Museum Of African American History Prepares To Open

  27-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The American story is profoundly African-American,’ said Paul Gardullo, a curator. ‘You don’t get America without African America; you don’t get our struggle for equality. And you don’t get jazz. You don’t get rock ’n’ roll.'”
  
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• George Underwood: the artist who led Bowie to make music

  27-03-2016 10:30
  
  The painter talks about his life in art and being responsible for his famous friend’s mismatched eyesGeorge Underwood is becoming a little sick of his claim to fame. More than half a century ago, in Bromley, Kent, the 15-year-old Underwood asked Carol Goldsmith out; she said yes, and a date was fixed for the youth club the following Wednesday. But on the day, Underwood’s best friend, David Jones, called him to say that Carol had changed her mind. This wasn’t the case, as i
  
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• The Grand Tour: Rose English/ Peter Blake; Simon Starling review – hit the trail

  27-03-2016 09:00
  
  Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop; Nottingham Contemporary
  From Rose English’s bewitching rural satires to Peter Blake’s homage to Hirst, the East Midlands’ Grand Tour is a great way to see the region’s best art in one takeIn 1975, the performance artist Rose English staged a new commission, Quadrille, down among the dressage competitions at the Southampton Show. Its organisers – county women in scarves and old cashmere, one imagines, though perhaps this is unfair &n
  
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• The NRA Has Rewritten Classic Fairy Tales, Adding (Of Course) Plenty Of Guns

  27-03-2016 05:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ‘Little Red Riding Hood set off through the forest to visit her grandmother, just like in the original. But the Big Bad Wolf did not scare her this time, because she ‘felt the reassuring weight of the rifle on her shoulder.'”
  
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