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• What Happened To The Great Cultural Critics?

  27-10-2019 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  What has become of the commanding figure of the critic in the last 20years? Where are the successors to Sontag and Steiner, and to Empson andRichards, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and Frank Kermode? …They wrote books such as Culture and Society (Raymond Williams, 1958), The Death of Tragedy (Steiner, 1961) and Culture and Imperialism (Said,1993). They moved literary criticism from poetry and the novel tosubjects such as illness and photography, orien
  
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• National Dance Institute Has A Plan To Be More “National”

  27-10-2019 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jacques d’Amboise started the nonprofitorganization while he was a principal dancer at New York City Ballet toexpose children to what he feels is the transformational power of dance.Today 6,500 children in New York City participate in N.D.I. schoolprograms each year. The N.D.I.Collaborative teaching program will offer on-site intensive training andprofessional workshops to teaching artists, dancers and classroomteachers at the institute’s Harlem headquarters. It will also providecon
  
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• London Review of Books Isn’t Just Surviving, It’s Thriving. Here’s How

  27-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As newspapers and magazinesexperience diminishing revenue, plunging circulation and attacks fromboth terrorists and government leaders, the L.R.B. has not merelysurvived but also flourished, and its circulation has risen consistentlysince 1985, to its current 78,000 — substantial in a country where theglossy men’s magazine Esquire reaches 57,000 — by doing the thingsreaders are said not to be interested in anymore. – The New York Times
  
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• Fundraising Manager / Stanley Halls / London

  27-10-2019 19:29
  Stanley Halls is a Grade II collection of buildings donated and designed for the people of South Norwood by William Stanley (1829-1909), a prominent local inventor, industrialist and philanthropist....
  
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• Bookstores Are Awesome. Should They Charge Admission?

  27-10-2019 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why not monetize the intangibles? The Strand, and stores like it, couldcharge an admission fee. Something token, like a dollar. For a buck,you’re granted access to everything the store has to offer. You canbrowse to your heart’s delight. There’s no pressure to make a purchase.And, if you do buy something, perhaps the item costs close to what itwould cost online, because all of those dollars would have allowed thestore to lower its prices. – The New Yorker
  
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• Jerry Saltz And Justin Davidson Debate The New MoMA

  27-10-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The great news is that along with the rest of us, Diller Scofidio +Renfro were finally beaten down by the reality of just how messed-up andcramped the billion-dollar Taniguchi building was. They fixed some ofthe problems and tacked on a few fun extras, and added about fiveGagosians’ worth of space. But it still amazes me that the suits whomake the museum’s real-estate deals sold MoMA short again.” – New York Magazine
  
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• It’s Theatre! No, It’s Film! (Actually, It’s Both)

  27-10-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fascinated by the relationship between theater and cinema, Christiane Jatahy hasmade a show that’s both. “One is the utopia of the other,” she tells us,though anyone who has ever despaired at badly shot video in the theatermight wonder if screen and stage are actually enemies. But Jatahy hasmanaged a strange and difficult trick. By precisely setting live filmand live performance against each other, she makes them into a mise enabyme— a mirror that reflects another
  
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• Renaissance painting found in kitchen in France sells for €24m

  27-10-2019 18:10
  Christ Mocked by Italian artist Cimabue had been valued at €4m-€6m before auctionAn tiny early Renaissance masterpiece found in a French woman’s kitchen during a house clearance has fetched more than €24m at auction, making it the most expensive medieval painting ever sold.Christ Mocked, by the 13th-century Florentine painter Cimabue, had hung for decades above a cooking hotplate in the open-plan kitchen of a 1960s house near Compiègne, north of Paris. It had never at
  
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• Collectible Limited Edition Sneakers Have Become Big-Business Art

  27-10-2019 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A lot fewer people are buying to wear and a lot more people are buying to sell.” StockX, a high-end sneaker resale company based in Detroit, recently reached a jaw-dropping $1 billion US valuation, proving how robust the global market is. – CBC
  
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• Trustee / Donmar Warehouse Projects / London

  27-10-2019 15:39
  The Donmar Warehouse, led by Michael Longhurst, Artistic Director and Henny Finch, Executive Director, is a 251-seat subsidised theatre located in the heart of Covent Garden in London’s West...
  
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• Short Com International Film Festival Open For Submissions / SHORT COM / East

  27-10-2019 14:54
  Dear Filmmakers The Short Com International Film Festival is open once again for submissions for its 9th season taking place in Edinburgh August 2020 during the world’s most popular...
  
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• Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’

  27-10-2019 12:12
  The artist is best known for her intense, haunting portraits of her close family and herself. She talks about finding her voice You walk up many flights of stairs to reach Celia Paul’s flat, but the climb is worth it. The windows of her studio and bedroom look down on the courtyard and facade of the British Museum. All the world and its history, in every available London light, is just across the street. Paul has lived and painted here – the two things are inseparable in her mind &nd
  
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• Celia Paul: ‘I had to make this story my own’

  27-10-2019 09:59
  The artist is best known for her intense, haunting portraits of her close family and herself. She talks about finding her voice and life after Lucian FreudYou walk up many flights of stairs to reach Celia Paul’s flat, but the climb is worth it. The windows of her studio and bedroom look down on the courtyard and facade of the British Museum. All the world and its history, in every available London light, is just across the street. Paul has lived and painted here – the two things are
  
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• Operations Assistant / London Studio Centre / London

  27-10-2019 09:13
  London Studio Centre (LSC) is an internationally recognised Higher Education conservatoire, which prides itself on training dancers, singers and actors for the profession. The Alternative Provider...
  
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• Fabric of a nation: couple bring the lost art of Pakistan to the world

  27-10-2019 09:12
  Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan AskariNasreen Askari had no interest in fashion when she was growing up. “I was deeply ugly, slightly sporty and slightly nerdy. That summed me up,” she says of an adolescence spent in the elite schools of 1960s Karachi. But if Askari, now nearing 70 and elegantly draped in Issey Miyake pleats, has anything to do with it, then the traditional textiles from her home province o
  
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• Performance and Events Coordinator / London Studio Centre / London

  27-10-2019 09:09
  London Studio Centre (LSC) is an internationally recognised Higher Education conservatoire, which prides itself on training dancers, singers and actors for the profession. The Alternative Provider...
  
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• Philip Pullman and the watershed

  27-10-2019 09:00
  The BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials provokes debate over its suitability for children, while the National Gallery scores a memorable own goalJust how dark is His Dark Materials? The BBC, which has made a splendid adaptation (14-year-old Dafne Keen as Lyra is outstanding) of Philip Pullman’s bestselling trilogy, pondered long and hard about its tone, content and when to show the eight-parter. In the end it plumped for 8pm rather than 9pm, the traditional slot for its Sunday-night drama
  
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• Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits; Gauguin Portraits review – violence and mania

  27-10-2019 08:00
  Royal Academy; National Gallery, LondonLucian Freud’s presence pulses menacingly throughout a thrilling show of self-portraits, while Gauguin, in a neighbouring blockbuster, sees himself as the suffering outsider
  The first picture in the Royal Academy’s exhibition of self-portraits by Lucian Freud dates from 1948 and is titled Startled Man. It is a pencil drawing, but you would no more refer to it as a sketch than you would refer to a three-course dinner as a snack. Freud would have
  
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