Challenging World Everyday
Those wanting to read a passage for the film can now apply via a form on Aubouy’s website on which she asks them to state why they wish to participate. The most common reasons people give are that they have never managed to begin Proust, and this will be a way to do so; they…
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“Chester is a guy who says crazy things and gets away with it – he’s a tiny little ball of rubber, so you can’t really get offended,” says Koch, acknowledging that no one wants to look like the person who gets upset by a puppet. Well, almost no one: in 2014, when Chester criticised white…
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The first book in series, Timmy and Treasure, was released in January. The second story she’s written, Five and the Runaway Dog, released in May this year, introduces Simi, a girl of South Asian heritage, and her family who have moved into the village. Simi plays a major part in the story and is also…
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Some artists working in time-based media try to ease the conservation stresses on museums. When Tate bought Michael Craig-Martin’s 2003 work Becoming – an endlessly changing computer-generated animation on an LCD screen – the artist provided its source code to help create future exhibitions on whatever displays might be around. Further challenges are posed by…
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Gyllenhaal is magnetic and convincing as a shy and awkward person who eventually finds a confident voice through the expression of latent desires. The gradual discovery that she likes what she likes is played as emotional liberation, and it is genuinely moving to witness her newfound determination as the lights come on in her eyes…
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And even decades after the Civil War, the dangers of other wars resonate in Homer’s work, especially in Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba (1901) painted in the wake of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The painting’s sense of foreboding derives from the eerie darkness that surrounds the monumental Spanish-built fortress and long mortar canon that…
