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• A $2 Billion Plan Would Transform LA’s Arts District

  29-04-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  An Arts District cold-storage plant dating to the 1890s would be replaced with housing, offices, a hotel and shops in a proposal unveiled Thursday by Denver developers. With a price tag between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, the complex would rank among the largest L.A. commercial real estate developments in recent memory. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Theatre Festivals Are Reopening In The UK. But What Should Their Role Be?

  29-04-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many will grapple with an uncertain theatre landscape and uncertainty over how audiences might behave as society opens up. And this is at a time when cities have been devastated by the pandemic, and many are still reeling from the loss to life and livelihoods. – The Stage
  
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• Poetry Foundation Picks A New President

  29-04-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michelle Boone’s appointment “may mark a turning point for the foundation, which has been criticized as insular and slow to respond to changing times. In addition to serving as commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Boone is wrapping up her tenure as chief program and civic engagement officer for Navy Pier.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Giant statue of Roman emperor reunited with long-lost finger

  29-04-2021 15:09
  
  Bronze finger found at Louvre is remounted onto Constantine’s hand at museum in RomeA giant statue of the hand of Constantine the Great in Rome has been reunited with its missing finger after more than 500 years.The 38cm-long bronze index finger, found in the Louvre in Paris in 2018, was remounted onto the statue at Rome’s Capitoline Museums on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• The Artist’s Wife review – incomplete portrait of a dysfunctional marriage

  29-04-2021 10:00
  
  The story of Claire, played by Lena Olin, thwarted in her own artistic ambitions, could have been a force for feminism, but the camera’s gaze is instead fixated on how gorgeous she is“I create the art. She creates the rest of life. Everything we do is up to Claire.” That’s painter Richard Smythson speaking, an artworld big gun, Jackson Pollock-meets-Philip Roth, played by Bruce Dern. He’s being interviewed in front of camera alongside his long-suffering wife Claire
  
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• Poussin painting ‘copy’ to hang in main galleries with new label

  29-04-2021 09:00
  
  The Triumph of Silenus was relegated to storerooms but new study casts it in a new lightIt was bought by the National Gallery in the 1820s as a painting by Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century French master. But The Triumph of Silenus – a bacchanalian revel – has long been relegated to the storerooms, having been repeatedly rejected by some of the 20th-century’s foremost experts as a mere copy.Now doubts about the picture have been dispelled and it will hang in the main galleries
  
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