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• The Newest Tate Modern Looks Good, Especially If You're Swimming In The Ocean

  01-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Twelve years and £20 million later, Tate St Ives has a large new room, and a lot of back-end improvements as well. "It is only a room, as Cézanne didn’t exactly say of Monet, but what a room."
  
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• A Mother's Command Led To The Establishment Of What's Now The Oldest Black Press In The U.S.

  01-10-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Long before Haki Madhubuti established Third World Press - now turning 50 - on Chicago's South Side, he was a 14-year-old living in Detroit. "His mother gave him a firm order: Go down to the public library and check out 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright." That changed the course of his life, and of publishing for African Americans.
  
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• Tips From Writer Ann Beattie On How To Pack For Long Trips

  01-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance: "You know those scented, 'personal' travel candles that are supposed to set the mood, calm your mind, and give you double points on your AmEx? Take one with you to the church in Rome so you don’t have to rationalize and/or feel bad if you can’t buy one."
  
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• Sex Work: a riot of body fluids, condom balloons and Day-Glo dick aliens

  01-10-2017 19:00
  The anti-war phalluses and photorealist porn of feminist artists were shunned by collectors and banned from galleries. Can a bold new show at Frieze art fair change all that?It would be impossible to look at the drawings of weaponised monster phalluses or gigantic photorealist paintings of genitalia cropped from hardcore porn, and not be poleaxed by the ferocious energy. The sheer ballsiness of the enterprise, if you like. These frank exhibits belong to Sex Work, a special section at this week&r
  
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• France's Most Famous Writer Led A Life Worthy Of His Books

  01-10-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexandre Dumas' life included more than a hundred mistresses, fleeing regime change in France, and much more - for instance, "In 1846, Dumas used the money he earned from his wildly successful The Count Of Monte Cristo to build a palatial estate he named Château De Monte-Cristo, which included a writing studio elsewhere on the grounds. However, Dumas only lived there for two years. Having blown through his money, as was his custom, he had to sell the place."
  
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• Romance Books Are Thriving, And That's Because They're Part Of The Resistance

  01-10-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Booksellers say romance's mostly female readers are reaching out, sometimes in despair or exhaustion, looking for what they might call a safe space for women. And then there's this: "Interest in politically minded heroes and heroines is on the rise and we expect to see an entire wave of books featuring characters who are fighting back and resisting in their communities."
  
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• Si Newhouse, Owner Of Conde Nast And The New Yorker, Has Died At 89

  01-10-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Remnick: "He owned the operation, paying the salaries and the rent, but he did not touch the magazine’s pages; he never suggested a story, he never revealed his political inclinations, he never gave advance instructions or retrospective criticism of an issue. When he mentioned that he had liked something in The New Yorker, he did so shyly, reluctantly, as if he were overstepping."
  
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• A Movie About A Czar's Affair Is Met With Violent Blowback By The Religious Right In Russia

  01-10-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matilda lavishly depicts the true story of Czar Nicholas II's affair with a ballerina - but the Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Czar in 2000, and now there have been Molotov cocktails, arson, and threats to burn down (or blow up) movie theaters that show the film.
  
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• The Battling Leonard Cohen Murals Of Montreal

  01-10-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Both are large (one is very large), but only one is backed by the city. "Those behind the earlier and smaller project – the nine-storey mural in Cohen's old Saint-Laurent neighbourhood, painted by Kevin Ledo as part of the latest Mural Festival – say it was a complete surprise to them when Coderre revealed in April that a rival 20-storey mural would rise on a building near Montreal's Golden Square Mile."
  
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• The Opera Singer Who Needed A Double Lung Transplant

  01-10-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Soprano Charity Tilleman-Dick: "I went into the hospital with an epic set of cankles — my ankles were swollen to the size of pachyderm ankles. I thought that they were going to give me some diuretics and let me leave, but the following morning, I woke up. It was to the news that there were lungs, it was a match and we were going to Cleveland immediately to have a transplant."
  
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• The Lit-Doc, And Where It Can Go From Here

  01-10-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The news isn't exactly scintillating. "The continued rise of streaming services, and their need for a constantly renewed library of content, means that informational documentaries will continue to be made. ... They demand little of the viewer and are easy to digest, not to mention relatively cheap to produce. But at the same time, in the case of literature, they reduce their subject to a series of outworn clichés, where the lives of all writers begin to resemble each other."
  
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• Yay For More Sex In Movies, But Can We Make It Fun?

  01-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You'd think it was 1811 at the movies, at least for women and their enjoyment of sex. "Female characters who have sex as casually as men have long been punished in popular culture, but a few decades ago things looked as if they were changing for the better." (Spoiler: They didn't.)
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Says The President Is 'Going Straight To Hell'

  01-10-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That, from the creator of Hamilton, comes after the man supposed to be running the country claimed that hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico "wanted everything done for them." Miranda added, repeated his claim and added quite a bit more, and you can see it all (of course) on Twitter.
  
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• For Most Of Us, Immoral Actions Seem Nearly Impossible, But Why?

  01-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seriously, this helps makes sense of our weird reactions: "It begins to make sense why, whenever the former neighbours of a serial killer are interviewed, they consistently report not being able to believe that their neighbour actually killed multiple people."
  
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• Monty Hall, Who Knew What Was Behind Door Number Three As Host And Co-Creator Of 'Let's Make A Deal,' Has Died At 96

  01-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In more than 5000 airings of Let's Make a Deal, Mr. Hall had quite a few jobs - traffic cop, smooth-talking salesman and more. "'Monty had to be a very likable con man; he had to convince people to give up a bird in the hand for what’s in the box,' David Schwartz, the author, with Fred Wostbrock and Steve Ryan, of 'The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows,' said in an interview."
  
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• John Akomfrah: ‘Progress can cause profound suffering’

  01-10-2017 09:00
  For the British artist, global warming, the subject of his ambitious new video installation, is a process rooted in technology and exploitationJohn Akomfrah grew up in the 1960s, in the shadow of Battersea power station in south London. As a child, he remembers “feeling as if I was enveloped in something whenever I played on the street. You could sense it in the air, you felt it and saw it, whatever was emanating from the huge chimneys. We were being poisoned as we played, but no
  
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• Bang a drum for the Turner’s coming of age

  01-10-2017 08:59
  Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
  Works inspired by slavery and the strange beauty of life in Gaza feature in this outward-looking 2017 Turner prize show – the first to include artists over 50Good news from the north. Lifting the age bar has had dramatic effects on the Turner prize.Now that it’s no longer restricted to the under-50s, with all the usual star-making and specious controversy of the last two decades, the shortlist is far more varied and mature. Painting, sculpture, installation,
  
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