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• The Ferocious Heart Of Kim Dingle's Paintings

  12-11-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Her paintings "sometimes look as if they’ve been attacked by a 6-year-old gone berserk on a sugar high" - and indeed, "for some of her installs, she will enlist the child of a friend to add the finishing touches: a crayon scrawl on the walls, piles of silly string underfoot, assorted bits of detritus."
  
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• Linda Nochlin obituary

  12-11-2017 15:40
  Feminist art historian who touched a nerve with her 1971 article Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?Linda Nochlin, who has died aged 86, was one of art history’s great troublemakers. Her article Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?, published in Art News in 1971, is credited as a founding text of feminist art history. Mischievous, provocative and iconoclastic, Nochlin took on the powerful institutions of the art world, especially as they impacted on women.Nothing was sacred
  
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• The Revolution Against Harassment Is Far Overdue, And Messy

  12-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pamela Adlon created Better Things with the help of Louis CK, and now she's being asked when she knew about his harassment of many other women. "But this is where we are: A talented woman has created a terrific show about women that women (and men) love. And now there's a giant cloud over it, as a result of a man's giant failings. It's not the worst thing about this awful story; it's not even close. But I hate that the women we need in Hollywood – in the world – can become collateral
  
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• The Long, Gritty Legacy Of Kenneth MacMillan

  12-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Britain's MacMillan "also effectively reinvented the 19th-century narrative ballet for an audience ready for tales of passion, drama and violence rather than those involving myths, swans and chivalry. He was — like Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor in the United States — a bringer of neurosis, psychological drama and real-life grit to the rarefied world of ballet."
  
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• Why Did The Tony Awards Suddenly Rule '1984' Ineligible?

  12-11-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, we know why, but we don't know why the show did what it did in the first place: "The production, whose lead producer is Scott Rudin, refused to provide tickets for one of the Tony nominators, Jose Antonio Vargas, and as a result, Tony officials pulled 1984’s eligibility. (Broadway sources, speaking on background because they weren’t authorized to comment, said the Tony Awards were also rebuffed in efforts to buy the tickets for Vargas.)"
  
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• On my radar: Toby Jones’s cultural highlights

  12-11-2017 11:00
  The actor on Dragons’ Den, the jazz improvisations of Brad Mehldau, the Cinema Museum, a south London bus garage, and more…Born in Hammersmith, London, Toby Jones studied at the University of Manchester and at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has starred in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and Dad’s Army (2016); he also appears in The Hunger Games and voiced Dobby the house elf in the Harry Potter
  
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• Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905-55 review – a momentous show

  12-11-2017 09:00
  Tate Modern, London
  Five decades of Soviet hopes turned to despair are captured for ever in David King’s astonishing collection of rare propaganda posters, photographs and printsThere is an unforgettable photograph of a Soviet soldier raising the red flag over the Reichstag near the end of this momentous exhibition. The soldier crouches at a terrifying angle to hang his victorious banner above burned-out Berlin in May 1945. It is a famous shot – the figure high among the parapets ben
  
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