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• Rubens, Manet, Bruegel … curator picks the gems from the reopened Courtauld Gallery

  06-11-2021 16:30
  
  Art historian Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen welcomes his top five attractions back to the refurbished exhibition spaceA coterie of the best-known faces in art has returned to the banks of the Thames, ready for public scrutiny this month. Paul Cézanne’s card players have been in Norway, while a bandaged Vincent van Gogh has been visiting Amsterdam. Claude Monet’s image of a sun-drenched tree on a beach in Antibes took a summer trip to Hull.Now back home together, they are
  
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• Rubens, Manet, Bruegel … curator picks his gems from the reopened Courtauld Gallery

  06-11-2021 16:30
  
  Art historian Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen welcomes his top five attractions back to the refurbished exhibition spaceA coterie of the best-known faces in art has returned to the banks of the Thames, ready for public scrutiny this month. Paul Cézanne’s card players have been in Norway, while a bandaged Vincent van Gogh has been visiting Amsterdam. Claude Monet’s image of a sun-drenched tree on a beach in Antibes took a summer trip to Hull.Now back home together, they are
  
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• Demarre McGill talks about DE&I in conservatories

  06-11-2021 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Demarre McGill, Associate Professor of Flute at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Principal Flute of the Seattle Symphony, shares about DE&I in conservatories and how to inspire young artists!
  
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• On my radar: Damon Albarn’s cultural highlights

  06-11-2021 16:00
  
  The musician and composer on a magical performance by Udo Kier, a west African drumming app and where to find a taste of PalestineDamon Albarn was born in east London in 1968. Interested in music from a young age, he studied at East 15 Acting School and then Goldsmiths, where he co-founded the band that helped kick off Britpop. As well as recording eight studio albums with Blur, Albarn also co-created Gorillaz and the Good, the Bad & the Queen, spearheaded the collaborative organisation Afri
  
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• Grand Performances – President and CEO

  06-11-2021 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  OrganizationGrand Performances is the original downtown Los Angeles free outdoor performing arts series. Celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2021, Grand Performances has delivered the best of global culture that inspires community, celebrates diversity, and unites Los Angeles through free access to global performing arts. Grand Performances brings artists and audiences together by thoughtfully curating an array of music, dance, film, and spoken word performances featuring great local and global
  
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• ‘I went from having to borrow money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world

  06-11-2021 12:30
  
  Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture?“It’s actually a lot simpler than you think.” It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and somewhat to my surprise, I’m on the phone to Paris Hilton, who is graciously explaining the world of NFTs.Hilton is many things – a reality star, an heiress, an unlikely lockdown fitness
  
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• Bending over backwards: Prince Gyasi’s best phone picture

  06-11-2021 11:00
  
  ‘The boxes on the women’s heads represent packages, like the gifts women give to the world’Prince Gyasi saw letters and words as colours long before he realised he had synaesthesia. “I was in primary school before I heard the word, but the signs were there. My mum says that as a baby I tried to eat paint and chew fabrics, as if I wanted to taste colour.”Raised in Jamestown, a fishing district in Accra, Ghana, the photographer cites his gospel-singing fashion designe
  
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• From The Card Counter to Diana Ross: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  06-11-2021 07:00
  
  Whether it is Vegas gamblers, Peruvian art treasures or one-off jazz collaborations you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week coveredThe Card Counter
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  Oscar Isaac (pictured, above) burns up the screen in the role of a former Guantánamo Bay detention camp guard now making a living as a top-tier professional gambler in Las Vegas, in a muscular and unflinching character study scripted and directed by Paul Schrader, the man who wrote Taxi Driver. Continue reading...
  
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• “Die Meistersinger” in Covid Times

  06-11-2021 03:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lise Davidsen, Michael Volle, and Klaus Florian Vogt in the Met MeistersingerLike every lifelong Wagnerite, I regard any
  
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