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• Royal Winnipeg Ballet Gets A New Director

  26-10-2023 23:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Elena Tupyseva was hired by the Moscow Department of Culture in 2012 for the position of CEO and artistic director of the City Theatre Ballet Moscow. – CBC
  
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• Tony Husband obituary

  26-10-2023 17:33
  
  Cartoonist whose long-running series The Yobs in Private Eye presented his view of the quirks of everyday existenceTony Husband, who has died aged 73, was the cartoonist behind one of Britain’s longest running comic strips, The Yobs, a new episode appearing every fortnight for 38 years since 1985, on the seemingly uninspiring subject of bovver boys with IQs as low as their brows. “I was beaten up by a bunch of skinheads,” Husband told the Observer in 2001, “so maybe this
  
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• Trippy eagles, vagina wounds, dragon intimacy: how medieval art got weird

  26-10-2023 09:00
  
  A Twitter account of the oddest illustrations from the middle ages has now become a book. Behind these naive drawings, author Olivia M Swarthout says, lie serious truthsIt is often assumed that the art that best communicates the spirit of its era is also the art that transcends it. We value the virtuosic, the original and the profound. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Sometimes, the art that actually reveals the most about an era is precisely the opposite: the clumsy, the transient,
  
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