Saturday, 21 July 2007

The new ignorance?

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From the IHT "In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon the...
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A Communal Event, for Everyone

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Two weeks ago the Italian press wrote that a hacker had entered the publisher's computer. It named the victims of J.K Rowling's pen....
Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Why Venice and the art thing might seem a little less Europe; a little more "global"

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From Hello magazine online; was the Mantua Times like this in 1608? It probably was: "A West End stage debut can be a daunting prospect...

America & Europe

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These things vanish into the paid-for archive, so just a taster of this year's transatlantic position: "HEIDELBERG, Germany — A day...
Monday, 16 July 2007

It is all happening down the road in Padua, and back in Milan

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This all from today's Daily Telegraph. "An Italian council estate ringed with a steel wall to keep its residents inside will be clo...
Saturday, 14 July 2007

Not forgetting...

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Sing along here Or come to London next year for new songs from an old, old story - now updated to Nazi-occupied Paris.
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Europe, with hope

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"Our intellectual potential needs its own spaces, for Europe's sense of purpose and for Europe's good. Culture must simply be g...

"Millions to dreams" - here's one to dream about

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"The culture-rich country lacks a major museum for contemporary work, but in Venice, businessman-art collector François Pinault sets ou...

News Alert: The Italian War on Terror

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When asked the secret of his success the world’s greatest comedian interrupts the question to shout: “timing”. I feel a little like the worl...
Friday, 13 July 2007

* The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas

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* The quote is from one of my gods: the American-"anglo" crime writer, Raymond Chandler “…the art of urban civilizations tends to ...
Thursday, 12 July 2007

Forwards and back

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“Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation” Tom’s friend, John Donne & his poem “Anatomy of the World”. “...
Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Flimsy Perspectives

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The origin of things is wholly the work of that which imagines, thinks, wills, feels. Friedrich Nietzsche. This morning over coffee a young ...
Tuesday, 10 July 2007

John and Connie's Optically Controlled Synth / Theremin.

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Live from Lyon

Apt to Linger

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“We spend our days looking for the secret of Life. Well, the secret of Life is Art!” “My first idea was to print only three copies: one for ...
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The Betwixt Pillow

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Monday, 9 July 2007

Emotional Antiquity

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At a dinner recently in London I was, again, the only English person present. What were the people there? They were Peruvian, African-Indian...
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