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The Proust Of Portugal (Whom You Likely Haven’t Heard Of)

Jose María de Eça de Quierós “established his reputation with his tense and claustrophobic first novel, The Crime of Father Amaro. It is a debut that’s also not one: it was twice seriously revised after publication. (Among other changes, the third edition is almost five times as long as the first.)”

The Benefits Of Being An Older Ballerina (Yes, Even Into Their 40s)

When you’ve been a principal for decades, one dancer says, ‘You hone your craft as you go. All the years of experience come into play when I approach any role, all of that muscle memory and stamina is in your body.’ … After years of repetition, she says, ‘You’re able to focus and dig deeper. Once you have the technical mastery under your belt, your focus is freed.'”

If You Give An Artist An Ellsworth Kelly Painting To Work Off Of, This Is What Can Result

Glenn Ligon took the Kelly painting “Blue Black” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis and then pulled together a show that pulls together disparate artists in what Ligon calls “a meander.” He says, not being a curator, “I’m not bound by chronology or genre. It’s about encounters and collisions. I’m an artist, too. I have my work in juxtaposition with other work in the show. That’s a luxury I can do.”

A New Play Is Inspired By The Shakespearean Dilemma Of A Refugee Actor In Australia

Playwright Charles Smith happened upon the story while watching his own plays. The new “is based on the true story of a young actor named Shedrick Yarkpai. Smith met Yarkpai when a theater company in Adelaide, Australia, produced two of Smith’s plays with Yarkpai in the lead.” Then, at lunch, the entire double-identity, maybe double-jeopardy plot revealed itself when Yarkpai talked about how he got to Australia. (2017 ironic twist: The actor couldn’t get a visa to come to Chicago to see the play about him.)

Progress For Women In Hollywood Has Come Far Too Slowly, But ‘Wonder Woman’ May Speed It Up

Of course, “the real currency in Hollywood is less principle than success. And that’s why there’s so much hope attached to the ‘Wonder Woman’ premiere — that its success with audiences of all genders and ages would bring the ‘knockout punch’ persuading Hollywood to give more female directors a break.”

The ‘Saddest Buildings In Britain’ Are Looking For Buyers (And Fixers)

A charity in Britain is pushing people to buy and restore buildings like the Tonedale Mills in Somerset. “The original timber structure was built in 1754, and rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1821. At its peak, making wool serge, and later khaki dye for army uniforms, it was the largest mill in the south-west, employing more than 3,600 people. Plans for redevelopment were stymied when the housing market collapsed in the 2008 financial crash.”

An American Ballet Theater Dancer Rescued A Man Who Fell Onto The Subway Tracks

The dancer, 31-year-old Grey Davis, lifted the unconscious 58-year-old man on the tracks to safety “with a lift that they do not teach in dance school.”

Why Don’t Literary Journals Pay?

Only about 8 percent of current literary journals pay anything like a professional wage to their contributors (and slightly more pay their staff, but that’s a different question). So maybe “the whole enterprise of writing literary fiction is a complete waste of your time”? It’s a valid question.

Pope L. Wins The Whitney’s $100,000 Biennial Bucksbaum Award

It’s a pungent piece: “Pope.L staged Claim (Whitney Version), 2017, an immersive installation including 2,755 slices of bologna that, over the course of the show’s run, has cured and gradually leaked juices into basins at the bottom of the piece.”

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