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• Louise Erdrich, Who Just Published Her 16th Novel, Is The 'Great American Novelist'

  19-11-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ann Patchett thinks she'll win the Nobel Prize someday. She's published 30 books - nonfiction, children's novels, and more. Sherman Alexie says she writes entertaining hyperrealistic literary fiction. And she owns a bookstore. "In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emoti
  
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• Is Spike Lee Solving His 'Woman Problem' With A Reimagined Heroine?

  19-11-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lee's movie She's Gotta Have It is now a Netflix series, which, in 30-minute episodes, has changed the main character and given her many more facets. Also ... "with television came a writer’s room, one that Mr. Lee filled with African-American female artists and writers." That didn't hurt.
  
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• The Creator Of Brazil's Outdoor Museum Has Been Sentenced To Nine Years In Jail

  19-11-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Contemporary art museum creator Bernardo Paz, "an eccentric and celebrated figure in Brazil’s art scene, was accused of using money raised abroad for Inhotim for expenses related to a conglomerate of mining and steel companies he ran. Mr. Paz’s sister, Virgínia de Mello Paz, was also convicted in the scheme and sentenced to five years in prison."
  
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• Cate Blanchett And The Artistic Manifesto

  19-11-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director of Blanchett's Manifesto (an art installation ... or a movie?): "The political landscape has shifted towards populism and against 'elitism.' ... 'Every populist wants to cut down cultural budgets and educational budgets for a good reason: because they need stupid minds to be manipulated and to become sheep of consumerism.'"
  
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• 'Lost' masterpiece by Spanish artist found hanging in Welsh castle

  19-11-2017 17:48
  Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s 17th-century portrait had long been thought to be a copy until an art expert visited Penrhyn Castle The 17th-century portrait of an austere-looking Spanish writer had hung in Penrhyn Castle for nearly 150 years, unvisited by art experts and assumed by the National Trust, which owns the castle, to be of no great value.Continue reading...
  
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• The Nightmare Future Of Filmmaking, Courtesy Of Amazon

  19-11-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The pieces are all in place: "Amazon has built a stable of services touching just about every part of the entertainment industry, from film and game development to ebook publishing and video streaming. It’s also built a retail empire on cheap piecemeal labor, free material generated by users, and an arcane system designed to connect people with things they want at the absolute maximum level of efficiency. So it’s not hard to imagine it — or a similarly large competitor —
  
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• Jamestown Slashes Its Library's Funding, Library Sells Its Valuable Collection Of Art, Protests Ensue

  19-11-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are protests, of course, but the library in New York says there's no other way to keep going: "The nine works to be sold Tuesday are an assortment of 19th-century creations by artists like Giovanni Boldini and Emilio Sánchez Perrier that the auction house has estimated could bring in a total of as much as $1.2 million. A sale in October by Sotheby’s, of another six paintings from the library, brought the institution more than $300,000. More are scheduled to be sold in 2018, So
  
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• Playwrights Are Finding Money, And Love, On The Small Screen

  19-11-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's true: "In years past, this relationship was an illicit tryst, a badge of shame. Today, it is an artistic triumph. Many writers head to theater school with dramatic polygamy in mind, and those already established in theater actively pursue meetings with TV executives."
  
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• Girish Bhargava, The Editor Of 'Dirty Dancing' And So, So Many Dance Shows, Has Died At 76

  19-11-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We would know so little of dance without him: "Bhargava edited films that captured the work of Balanchine, Peter Martins, Bob Fosse, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and many other prominent choreographers, in the process creating an archival record of a genre that had historically been difficult to preserve. And through Dance in America and other television work, he spread the art form to people who might not have been able to get to a theater."
  
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• Last Living Person Linked To Gardner Art Theft Seeks Prison Release On Separate Charge

  19-11-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Gentile's attorney says he can't remember pleading guilty on a weapons charge and thus, "the reputed Connecticut mobster, who authorities say is the last surviving person of interest in the largest art heist in U.S. history, wants to await sentencing in an unrelated weapons case at his home."
  
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• Torch Song Trilogy, The Herald Of A New Era, Turns 35

  19-11-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stuart Emmerich: "My only experiences of gay theater had been plays like The Boys in the Band, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, Tea and Sympathy and Streamers — plays where the gay character was either closeted or bitter or suicidal, and usually all three. It was a shock to see Mr. Fierstein, as Arnold, strutting around his apartment in his floppy rabbit slippers, cracking jokes, sharing affection with both his lover and his foster son, and going ferociously head-to-head with his disapproving
  
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• Dance Has Always Been Political, But This Year ... Wow

  19-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One choreographer: "We don’t have time to play around anymore."
  
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• On my radar: Alexei Sayle’s cultural highlights

  19-11-2017 10:00
  The writer, actor and comedian on the joys of cheap restaurants, Otto Dix and that single seat under the stairs on London busesBorn in Anfield, Liverpool, Alexei Sayle studied art before training to be a further-education teacher. When London’s Comedy Store opened in 1979, he became its first MC and, over the following decade, became a central figure in the alternative comedy movement. He has starred in a number of TV shows including The Young Ones (1982-4) and the Emmy-winning Alexei Sayl
  
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• John Piper; Surrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1938-48 – review

  19-11-2017 09:00
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  John Piper’s gift for making England glow in the dark is lost in a chaotic show. For sheer strangeness, try the Egyptian surrealists next doorA John Piper story – quite possibly the only Piper story. The much-lauded artist is commissioned to paint Windsor Castle during the second world war in case the buildings are destroyed. In his watercolours, the castle looks paler than ever against a series of ragingly portentous skies. The royals are not amused. George VI remarks
  
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• Inside Pussy Riot review – a soft-labour sentence

  19-11-2017 09:00
  This immersive story of the art-punk group sent to a Russian labour camp has too many laughs to hit homeYou will remember Pussy Riot as the art-punk group who, thanks to a 40-second guerrilla performance of their song Holy Shit at a Moscow Orthodox cathedral, ended up sentenced to two years’ hard labour in a penal camp after a show trial played out in the world press.Inside Pussy Riot, the latest from immersive theatre group Les Enfants Terribles (fresh from their Olivier-nominated Alice&r
  
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• The art of broken hearts: smashed mannequin to a bottled wedding dress

  19-11-2017 08:00
  When a couple splits, there are always objects resonant with the love that’s been lost. But what should you do with the stuff? How about submitting it to the Museum of Broken Relationships…What can one do with the frail ruins of a love affair?” asks Olinka Vištica, curator of the Museum of Broken Relationships – an idea that began 12 years ago when her own union, with co-curator Dražen Grubišić, was breaking up. “The physical remains of our
  
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• Naked attraction: art and tragic tales in Modigliani’s Paris

  19-11-2017 08:00
  As Tate Modern prepares a new exhibition of his work, including 12 of his famous nudes, Louise Roddon explores the artist’s haunts in Montmartre and Montparnasse
  Poor Amedeo Modigliani, what a tough life he led. I’m thinking this as I climb the steps to his last studio in Montparnasse. It’s a classic artist’s garret with peeling paint and poor lighting, and climbing the countless floors on a narrow stone tread, leaves me winded. It wouldn’t have been easy for a man
  
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• Modigliani’s Paris: Bohemian rhapsody

  19-11-2017 08:00
  As Tate Modern prepares a new exhibition of his work, including 12 of his famous nudes, Louise Roddon explores the artist’s haunts in Montmartre and Montparnasse
  Poor Amedeo Modigliani, what a tough life he led. I’m thinking this as I climb the steps to his last studio in Montparnasse. It’s a classic artist’s garret with peeling paint and poor lighting, and climbing the countless floors on a narrow stone tread, leaves me winded. It wouldn’t have been easy for a man
  
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• Hull’s year of culture: ‘We look at our city with new eyes’

  19-11-2017 08:00
  The real story of Hull’s year as City of Culture is how it’s transformed the lives of local people. Here they discuss 2017’s highlights – and what its legacy might beIn July 2016, Sheila Annis and her daughter Caron Mincke saw an ad for volunteers for Hull UK City of Culture. “We fancied having a go,” she says. “But we didn’t think for a minute we’d be picked.” Nevertheless, they answered it, and soon afterwards, somewhat to their amaze
  
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• Alphabet art and French clothing for kids: what to buy this week

  19-11-2017 07:00
  Min Cooper posters and badges, Melijoe childrenswear, an egg microwave and fair wage clothing… these are some of the things we love this week Min Cooper started out as a newspaper cartoonist and illustrator. Now her focus is more on fine art, but her clever and elegant designs are also to be found on pin badges, T-shirts, jewellery and homeware. Alphabet of Things poster £15, Isentaletter.co.uk Paper brooches £9.50 pinsandeasels.co.uk Continue reading...
  
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• Great collectors used to have great taste. Now they simply show off their wealth | Tiffany Jenkins

  19-11-2017 01:05
  When a mediocre Leonardo breaks all records, it’s confirmation that today’s buyers have no eye for the art itselfIf you walk around Mayfair or Manhattan at twilight and look up, you could glimpse a Damien Hirst spot painting through an apartment window. The simple circles of colour on a grid and a white background are recognisable and everywhere. There are more than 1,000 in existence, and they have been exhibited all over the world.The spot paintings are visually inoffensive; if one
  
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