The British novel beat out a formidable shortlist, including Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, to win the €100K International Impac Dublin Literary Award. “Nominations for the prize are received from libraries around the world – Even the Dogs was proposed by a Moscow library.”
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Western Classical Music’s Revival In The West Bank
“With the loss of Palestine after the formation of Israel in 1948 there was no revival in the West Bank of the cultural scene that had been so vibrant in cities like Jaffa, Jerusalem and Haifa. … All this has changed. … Classical music in Palestinian society is no longer the reserve of the privileged classes.”
Missy Mazzoli Named Opera Co. Of Philadelphia’s Composer-In-Residence
“Deepening its pledge to advance the art form, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, in collaboration with Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group in New York, has appointed a second composer in residence” – 31-year-old, Brooklyn-based Missy Mazzoli, a greater Philadelphia native.
Belarus Free Theatre’s Director Says They Don’t Do ‘Political Theatre’
Natalia Koliada: “I am always against separating, saying there should be political theatre or social theatre or female theatre, or aboriginal theatre – it is about theatre. It is about going deep into one life, like a total immersion in personality, in a different circumstance.”
South Africa’s Film Industry Is Still Too Stuck In Whiteness
Phil Hoad argues that, nearly two decades after the end of apartheid, sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest film industry (after Nigeria’s) is still beholden to Hollywood and its outlook, while the country’s black majority is underrepresented in everything from acting and directing (even Tsotsi and District 9 had white directors) to access to movie screens.
Londoners, Do You Hate The Shard? Renzo Piano Has A Few Words For You
“This building is not made with the intention to be aggressive or powerful. It is not about priapismo. This building is telling a completely different story. It is celebrating a shift – in the idea that growth in a city should not happen by building more and more on the periphery. … I’m not an advocate of tall buildings, but I am an advocate of intensifying the city from the inside.”
EU Targets Money Laundering With New Regulations For Art Galleries
“Lowering the threshold will not make life more difficult for money launderers. It will, however, make business more difficult for the art trade. It is the smaller dealers in antiques and lower-end fine art who accept cash: and they’re the ones suffering most in this economic climate.”
Bringing MoMA’s Treasures To The World’s Most Isolated Big City
“Picasso to Warhol: 14 Modern Masters” is the first of half a dozen six-month exhibitions – all featuring pieces from the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art – at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth. Among the other “modern masters” in the show: Matisse, Miró, Mondrian, Pollock, Calder and Bourgeois.
Hollywood Tries Releasing Films About Actual People Amidst The Fantasy Juggernauts
This year, there’s “a small cluster of pictures that will try to defy modern economic forces in the movie industry; they will bring realistic stories about recognizable characters in a familiar world to major studio schedules, at the height of the summer blockbuster season. It is a daring step.”
A Typical Sophie Calle Dilemma: Should She Be Buried At Montparnasse Or In California?
“Death figures large in the work of Ms. Calle, widely acclaimed as France’s leading conceptual artist, and occupies an important place in her life. She celebrates it in style – her own, her mother’s, that of strangers and pets – along with birthdays and moments of amorous rupture.”