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Eric Clapton’s blues, a dance version of “The Great Gatsby” and a new wine festival are among Muse’s arts and leisure recommendations for London this weekend.
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It was impossible to be a Dadaist in New York, Man Ray believed, because the city itself was the epitome of manic, anarchic Dada.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked that there are no second acts in American lives.
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BP Plc, which last year caused the U.S.’s worst-ever oil spill, today pledged another 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to four cultural institutions for the next five years.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Here we go again.
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Andy Warhol famously predicted that everybody would enjoy 15 minutes of fame in the modern age.
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A communal campfire tent goes up in the courtyard of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum late today.
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Image manipulation is a news story, and a scandal, in the 21st century.
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Sometimes, only after an artist has died can you see their work as a whole. That’s certainly the case with Lucian Freud.
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