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• Museums Go Multi-Sensory - Does It Deepen The Experience Or Distract From It?

  14-03-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Some museum leaders view these offerings as a way to attract younger audiences who are steeped in multisensory experiences and to deepen the engagement with the art objects for everyone. But others see them as distractions."
  
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• The Eugene Symphony's Amazing Track Record Choosing Music Directors (And How They Do It)

  14-03-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The intensive, exhaustive process used to choose them all, largely created by local lawyer and arts supporter Roger Saydack, has become a national model — “he literally wrote the book” on picking a music director, says ESO executive director Scott Freck, noting that Saydack wrote the League of American Orchestras’ manual on orchestra MD searches. So who becomes the next ESO artistic leader matters — not just here, but nationally."
  
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• Jerry Saltz: The Best Whitney Biennial In Years

  14-03-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The 2017 Whitney Biennial was organized in one era and exists in another. I leadingly asked the show’s two 30-something Asian-American curators, Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, if they altered anything after the election. Nodding with patient understanding but unshaken, both firmly said, “We didn’t change course.” By all rights then, this is the first, last, and only Hillary Clinton biennial. But that doesn’t mean it is out of step, nice-y nice, disconnected, or
  
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• Why galleries and collectors keep coming back to Art Dubai

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  Aicon Gallery is an Art Dubai veteran, having participated at Art Dubai ten times. We want to appeal to the Middle Eastern collector base. We straddle various fault lines of cultural geography through our artists, rather like Dubai itself, says Projjal Dutta, the co-founder who specialises in contemporary works by South Asian artists. He is showing works by the Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen, Pakistani-American Anila Quayyum Agha and Rashid Koraichi of Algeria, among others, with a price range
  
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• Whitney Biennial freeze-out

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  Jay, a man said to his friend, standing under the Eye of Sauron in the snow, outside the Whitney on the night of the biennials VIP preview on 15 March. Jay. I think were gonna die. The collective Puppies Puppies had created the Lord of the Rings-style eye; temperatures in the low 20s had created the pronouncement. Nothing to be done. For most, it took ten minutes to get inside, past the glass-walled red carpet on which Zosia Mamet gave a warm interview in a ball gown. The coat check was full. A
  
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• The search for Franz Marc’s iconic blue horses

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  It has been missing since the end of the Second World War, but one of the greatest German Expressionist paintings may have survived, hidden away in Russia.Franz Marcs The Tower of Blue Horses (1913) has not been seen in public since a Nazi exhibition of degenerate art in Munich in 1937, but the curators of two shows opening in Germany this month believe that the picture could well survive. They are organising their exhibitions in homage to the missing masterpiece and also in the hope of raising
  
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• The Original Provocateur

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  When Hassan Sharif died in September last year, his Dubai- based gallery, Isabelle van den Eynde, paid tribute to the Emirati artists maverick spirit. Sharif didnt put stock in conventions of age, identity or the need for comfort. Only art and the restless making of art grasped his attention, said a statement, highlighting the achievements of the Dubai-born polymath dubbed the godfather of conceptual art in the Gulf. At Art Dubai, a raft of special events and exhibitions explores why Sharif mat
  
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• Rashid Rana: Transfiguring History

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  For the past 20 years, Rashid Rana has been at the vanguard of Pakistani art. When he left behind traditional painting for a photographic printmaking process involving the fragmentation and rearranging of mosaic-like images, his pixel-like works were something of a revolution on the Pakistani art scene at the time. I Love Miniatures (2002), in which he recreated a Mughal miniature with the use of photographic mosaic, played on ideas of identity and dislocation, an investigation of the states of
  
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• Rare, newly restored 300-year japanned cabinet on offer at the Bada fair

  14-03-2017 22:00
  A 300-year-old cabinet has had a lengthy restoration before being offered for sale on the London-based dealer Rollestons stand at this months British Antique Dealers Association fair in London (15-21 March).
  When the third-generation, family-run firm, which specialises in English furniture and antiques, acquired the William and Mary-period japanned cabinet, its stand and cresting were covered in thick layers of gold paint. When we first saw it, we realised the carving should be crisper, James Ro
  
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• Major acquisitions announced for Louvre Abu Dhabi

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the long awaited new museum due to open on Saadiyat Island later this year, has announced a raft of new acquisitions, ranging from an ancient Egyptian funeral set to a 20th-century painting by Wifredo Lam.
   
  The works bolster the museums collection of more than 600 works; the Lam piece, entitled The Carabean Parade (1945), shows a mass of bizarre Surrealist figures. The intricate wooden Egyptian set relates to the princess Henuttawy (late tenth century BC). These
  
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• Loyalty to the brand

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  Aicon Gallery is an Art Dubai veteran, having participated at Art Dubai ten times. We want to appeal to the Middle Eastern collector base. We straddle various fault lines of cultural geography through our artists, rather like Dubai itself, says Projjal Dutta, the co-founder who specialises in contemporary works by South Asian artists. He is showing works by the Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen, Pakistani-American Anila Quayyum Agha and Rashid Koraichi of Algeria, among others, with a price range
  
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• London gallery follows in Peggy's footsteps with women-only show

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  Breese Little gallery in London has hit upon the idea of channelling Peggy Guggenheim, the grandest art dame of all. Its forthcoming show 31 Women (2 June-31 July) is modelled on Exhibition by 31 Women, a trailblazing show that took place at The Art of This Century, Guggenheims New York gallery, in 1943. The shows 21st-century counterpart will include pieces by Eileen Agar, Tracey Emin, Patricia Treib and Catherine Yarrow. The original show provides a historical departure point, creating a fram
  
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• Cuban loans travel to the US via Europe as barriers remain in place

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  Since the Obama administration re-established diplomatic ties with Cuba in 2015, interest in the islands art has soared in the US. This month, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York are presenting ambitious exhibitions that give US audiences the opportunity to see a vast array of contemporary art from the island nation for the first time in decades.
  But cultural exchange is easier said than done. The US embargo on Cuba is still in place and few pla
  
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• Art Dubai pays tribute to the late Hassan Sharif

  14-03-2017 22:00
  
  When Hassan Sharif died in September last year, his Dubai- based gallery, Isabelle van den Eynde, paid tribute to the Emirati artists maverick spirit. Sharif didnt put stock in conventions of age, identity or the need for comfort. Only art and the restless making of art grasped his attention, said a statement, highlighting the achievements of the Dubai-born polymath dubbed the godfather of conceptual art in the Gulf. At Art Dubai, a raft of special events and exhibitions explores why Sharif mat
  
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• A survey of the Surrealist film-maker from ‘another world’

  14-03-2017 22:00
  Films of seahorses giving birth, close-ups of sea urchin spines, and footage of Alexander Calder making a toy horse gallop in circles are three of the highlights in a major exhibition dedicated to the film-maker Jean Painlev (1902-89), opening this month at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham (15 March-4 June). Painlevs work influenced Surrealists including Luis Buuel and Man Ray and writers like Georges Bataille. His films are undergoing something of a renaissance impinging on the consciousness of conte
  
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• An Edgy, Provocative Whitney Biennial Right When We Need It

  14-03-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The mood is, by turns, anxious and dark, even sinister, but also, at times, expectant, guardedly hopeful. Everyone is on edge. The show presents a nation, and the sensibilities of its artists, in a period of transition, with violence cresting, identities in flux, and some brave souls hatching plans. A sea change is coming, though it is unclear if its effect will be disastrous, momentous, or something more complicated. Call it the biennial on the brink."
  
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• ‘Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art’ at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach

  14-03-2017 21:24 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• The Lexicography Wars - Why It's So Difficult To Define Short Words

  14-03-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Generally speaking, the smaller and more commonly used the word is, the more difficult it is to define. Words like “but,” “as,” and “for” have plenty of uses that are syntactically similar but not identical. Verbs like “go” and “do” and “make” (and, yes, “take”) don’t just have semantically oozy uses that require careful definition but semantically drippy uses as well. “Let’s do dinner” an
  
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• Kahlil Joseph and Gala Porras-Kim Win Artadia Los Angeles Awards

  14-03-2017 21:00 via artnews.com
  Artadia, the nonprofit that recognizes artists around America with various prizes, has named Kahlil Joseph and Gala Porras-Kim the winners of its Los Angeles Awards, which are given annually to artists based in the California city and come with $10,000.Of … Read More
  
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• Phoenix Theatre, Arizona State University Propose A "Teaching-Hospital-For-The-Arts" Model

  14-03-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In our vision, there would be a version of a formal deep relationship with every significant nonprofit cultural institution in the Valley. If we really believed in this teaching-hospital model, every major institution would have appointments at the institute."
  
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• 'I smeared Gen in flour paste and whipped him hard': an extract from Cosey Fanni Tutti's book

  14-03-2017 20:05
  
  The art provocateur recalls life in an art commune in Hull, fighting the Hells Angels and thrashing Genesis P Orridge on stage in Amsterdam•‘I don’t like acceptance’: Cosey Fanni Tutti talks about her life and careerI’d gone to an “acid test” at the union at Hull University. I walked in, paid my entrance fee and received my tab. People were already tripping when I arrived: they were on the floor groping one another or playing with a bathtub of coloured je
  
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• Cosey Fanni Tutti: 'I don’t like acceptance. It makes me think I've done something wrong'

  14-03-2017 20:05
  
  As a member of COUM and Throbbing Gristle, Cosey Fanni Tutti made art that was so shocking, the police ran them out of Hull. But now they’re being invited back – and celebrated in galleries. Here she talks about how they survived•‘I smeared Gen in flour paste and whipped him hard’: read an extract from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new autobiographyThere’s no getting around the fact that meeting Cosey Fanni Tutti after you’ve read her autobiography is a sligh
  
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• Why It's Difficult To Change Someone's Beliefs

  14-03-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  People see evidence that disagrees with them as weaker, because ultimately, they’re asking themselves fundamentally different questions when evaluating that evidence, depending on whether they want to believe what it suggests or not, according to psychologist Tom Gilovich.
  
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• An AirBnB For Classical Music That Seems To Be Finding New Audiences

  14-03-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Groupmuse is something of an Airbnb for classical music concerts, so unsurprisingly, millennials are latching onto this relatively new startup in increasingly large numbers. The company pairs up music lovers with a space to offer—a living room, a backyard or something larger if it’s available—with classical musicians looking to make a few dollars and potentially build their fanbase with people in the area."
  
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• Goddess Shreds in Stella Blizzard 2017!

  14-03-2017 19:28 via artnews.com
  The Great Kat, a Juilliard-trained virtuoso on guitar and double violin, would like it to be known that no snowstorm currently crippling the Northeast is going to stop her from shredding as a woman of such talents could and—at least in … Read More
  
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• How The San Francisco Symphony Turned An Unglamorous Space Into The Hottest Venue In Town

  14-03-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Today the hottest ticket in San Francisco classical music is around the corner at SoundBox, a new performance venue, launched by the Symphony in 2014, that has turned a decidedly unglamorous, acoustically dreadful building into a place designed to attract an entirely new audience to the symphony. At SoundBox, the 500-person audience sits on low-slung ottomans and benches—or simply stands. You can get fancy cocktails and snacks like bacon caramel popcorn at the bar, any time. Looking for a
  
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• National Gallery of Art delves into the woods with its next Mellon lectures

  14-03-2017 18:52
  
  The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, kicks off its prestigious A.W. Mellon Lecture series on 26 March with the art historian Alexander Nemerov as guest lecturer. The six talks, titled The Forest: American in the 1830s, examine artists like Thomas Cole and John Quidor and writers like James Fenimore Cooper.There is a sense, on the one hand, of art being too achieved and finished [in this period] to really portray the humanness of the forest, Nemerov says, adding that the lectures will
  
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• Stafford Arima Named Artistic Director Of Theatre Calgary

  14-03-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  He has ambitions for Theatre Calgary to be a destination theatre – for companies countrywide and worldwide, and for playwrights. “For it to be a place that authors will want to come to and try out their new works or develop their plays or their musicals and put it on a map on a global level. Because there is an energy and a pulse that is undeniable.”
  
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• Peter Markey obituary

  14-03-2017 18:23
  
  Our father, Peter Markey, who has died aged 86, was one of the leading figures in the world of contemporary automata and a prolific painter.Born in Swansea, Peter was the son of Marie (nee Tuer) and Edgar Markey. Edgar was a trawlerman, and Peter and his twin sister, Pauline, would often look out from their house on Town Hill towards Swansea Bay, waiting for their father’s boat to appear before running down to meet him. The image of a solitary boat on the horizon became a recurring theme i
  
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• U.S. Museums Wrestle With How To Respond (Or Not) To Political Turmoil

  14-03-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Art and history museums alike are taking a variety of approaches, including wait-and-see. Graham Bowley provides a run-down.
  
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• Jean Fisher obituary

  14-03-2017 17:58
  
  My friend Jean Fisher, who has died aged 74, was one of the most distinctive British writers on art of her generation. She believed in art as a radical practice, something which opened up “unauthorised” realities.The artists she championed and wrote about – who included Steve McQueen, James Coleman, Jimmie Durham, Judith Barry, Jack Goldstein, Willie Doherty, Francis Alÿs, Avis Newman, Susan Hiller and Avis Newman – were all, to some extent, wrestling with issues of
  
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• "Deep Time" And What It Means

  14-03-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much grander than those of prevailing Biblical narratives. This dizzying Copernican shift threw both God and man into question.
  
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• 'Fearless Girl' Sculpture On Wall Street Is 'Fake Corporate Feminism', Says Hyperallergic

  14-03-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Fearless Girl represents basically everything that's wrong with our society," argues Jillian Steinhauer. "Could there possibly be anything more patronizing than two massive, male-dominated capitalist companies" - advertising giant McCann and investment firm State Street - "installing a branded statue of the most conceivably non-threatening version of womankind in supposed honor of a day devoted to women's equality that was founded by the Socialist Party?" Do you think Steinhauer has a point?
  
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• American Cities Discovering The Many Benefits Of Investing In Parks

  14-03-2017 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  From Philadelphia to Seattle, American cities are banking on parks and public spaces to drive social and economic progress. "Parks may not seem particularly urgent compared with the latest gangland murder epidemic; but the effort in Chicago to improve and expand them has, neighborhood by neighborhood, delivered long-term rewards. A few downtown showpieces, like the urbane Riverwalk and glamorous Millennium Park, have reaped immense financial windfalls for the city. Barack Obama’s president
  
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• The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is a Moving, Forward-Looking Tour de Force—a Triumph

  14-03-2017 16:09 via artnews.com
  And we’re back.After a three-year hiatus intended to allow Whitney Museum curators to break in their palatial new home in the Meatpacking District, the Whitney Biennial has returned in very fine form, with an intensely satisfying display of 63 artists and … Read More
  
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• Yo-Yo And Esa-Pekka Sittin' Around And Talkin' About Their New Concerto

  14-03-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zachary Woolfe has a conversation with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen about the new concerto the latter has written for the former.
  
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• In The New Political Environment, Theatres Are Becoming Town Halls

  14-03-2017 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Something theatres have always done well is bring people together. Traditionally people gather to see a show and maybe stick around after for a talkback, but increasingly, and especially since the 2016 presidential election and the inauguration of Donald J.Trump, theatres and theatre people have been looking for ways to bring those people together to make a statement, start a discussion, or support a cause independent of a particular theatrical production, with some initiatives being more openl
  
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• Ballet Begins, However Slowly, To Address Its Diversity Problem

  14-03-2017 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says Dance/USA executive director Amy Fitterer, "I'm feeling every encouraged in the past two years because the conversation has gone from trying to convince people that there is a problem, (to) now we're finding the directors are really on board." (includes video)
  
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• Read 'The I.O.U.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald's Never-Before-Published Story

  14-03-2017 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The above is not my real name - the fellow it belongs to gave me his permission to sign it to this story. My real name I shall not divulge. ..."
  
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• How The Newly-Discovered Story By F. Scott Fitzgerald Fell Through The Cracks, And How It Was Found Again

  14-03-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  A conversation between New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman and Margaret Daniel, the editor of 'I'd Die for You' and Other Lost Stories.
  
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• Never-Before-Seen Rodin Work To Be Displayed For First Time

  14-03-2017 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Absolution (ca. 1900) has a quality most people would never associate with Rodin's muscular sculpture -it's fragile, made up of three plaster pieces with fabric draped on top. Emily Sharpe reports on how conservators stabilized the piece and transported it (very carefully) to the Musée Rodin in Paris.
  
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• BBC Interview Hijacked By Toddlers Becomes Battleground In Culture Wars

  14-03-2017 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the video clip went viral, an incorrect assumption made by a lot of viewers on social media - and several media outlets - raised quite a few hackles. As Roxane Gay tweeted, "Today one of the funniest, most charming videos showed me that we have way more work to do than I ever thought." Caroline Davies explains. (includes video)
  
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• Morning Links: Gallery in a Cannabis Dispensary Edition

  14-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Totenberg Strad, Stolen And Long Missing, Is Played In Concert For First Time In 37 Years

  14-03-2017 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Stradivarius violin that troubled music student Phil Johnson stole from violinist Roman Totenberg (yes, Nina's father) in 1980 was recovered after Johnson died in 2012. After years of careful restoration, it was returned to performance by former Totenberg student Mira Wang on Monday night in New York. Geoff Edgers reports.
  
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• While ISIS Was Busily Wrecking Mosul, It May Have Uncovered The Lost Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

  14-03-2017 13:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza survives to this day and the fate of five others is documented. But what became of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon has remained a mystery; some scholars aren't certain they even existed. But ISIS's destruction of a shrine on the ancient site of Nineveh may have revealed the key to that mystery. Or perhaps not. The connection involves a chain of historical references that may not hold up - but Noah Charney explains that chain and
  
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• SoCal's Pacific Symphony Musicians Get New Contract - With A Real Raise

  14-03-2017 13:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The agreement, which was agreed-on in principle in late October but took until mid-February to draft, increases musicians' pay by 10.4% over its five-year term.
  
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• Christopher Gray, Architectural Historian And 'Streetscapes' Columnist For New York Times, Dead At 66

  14-03-2017 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Mr. Gray did not serve up conventional architectural assessments. Mentions of muntins and mullions were few and far between. Instead, his columns were narratives of creation, abandonment and restoration that lovingly highlighted quirky design and backstairs gossip from decades past."
  
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• Disney Pulls 'Beauty And The Beast' From Malaysia After Dispute Over 'Gay Moment'

  14-03-2017 12:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The chairman of the country's film censor board said, "We have approved it but there is a minor cut involving a gay moment. It is only one short scene but it is inappropriate because many children will be watching this movie." So the Disney Company stopped the release of the film.
  
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