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“If I met a woman in the street who looked like my paintings, I’d faint.”
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Synthesizers echoed over the P.A. system at Le Poisson Rouge on July 14th as the dimly lit stage was filled with smoke, then with the four members of Wild Beasts plus keyboardist Katie Harkin, borrowed from the band Sky Larkin.
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Jean Cocteau’s “Orpheus,” newly restored by Criterion in a terrific two-disc DVD set, presents his deeply personal version of the mythological Greek poet whose songs could charm wild beasts.
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Not every Dutch artist who came to Paris failed, went mad, sliced off his ear and killed himself.
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As Moscow braces for organized protests this weekend, one indicator of the breadth of political discontent can be found in the sudden transformation of an Internet diarist named Bozhena Rynska.
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It’s time to get past the silly name and quirky accent: The Arctic Monkeys are leading a new Britpop invasion.
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U.S. stocks fell this week, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the biggest loss since 2008, as the Federal Reserve said risks to the economy have increased and concern grew that policy makers will fail to spur growth.
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The anonymous cover just says “SuperHeavy” and features a lion painted by Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the Barack Obama “Hope” poster.
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A cache of artworks by artists including Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and Andre Derain is expected to fetch as much as $26 million at auction after being hidden in a bank vault for 40 years.
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The London rock band Xx won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best British or Irish album last night, beating better-known names such as Paul Weller , Dizzee Rascal and Corinne Bailey Rae .
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