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UNCOVERED: Gertrude stein - The Untold Story

‘A kind of reconnecting with the past’: the Met celebrates the art of the portrait

In a new exhibition, work from artists including Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam offer different ways to see what a portrait can represent

The Guardian - US

My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in Paris

The Guardian - UK

Too Many Does

From Roe v. Gowl, decided yesterday by Judge Jesse Furman (S.D.N.Y.): The Court previously ordered Plaintiff, who is currently proceeding… The post Too Many Does appeared first on Reason.com.

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‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend

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Friday essay: Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke

Today, modernist literary icon Gertrude Stein is famous for many reasons. The “autobiography” she wrote of her partner Alice B. Toklas: a gossipy, ironic tour of bohemian Paris, featuring memorable cameos by artist Henri Matisse, poet T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and others. Surviving Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish lesbian, somehow.…

The Conversation

Robert Wilson obituary

Performance artist, set designer and director who created haunting, sometimes plotless tableaux to great effect

The Guardian - UK

Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made

A thoughtful biography attempts to restore the Alice B Toklas author’s posthumous reputation as a founder of modernism

The Guardian - UK

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Books of the month: What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography

THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlights

The Independent UK

Milliken and Feniger talk partnership

A decades-long partnership built on trust, talent and bold flavors reshaped American cuisine

Salon

Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking

Edwin Frank’s finely judged survey of modern fiction from Dostoevsky to Sebald will have you reaching for novels you hadn’t thought about in years

The Guardian - UK

Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum

Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeThe US artist has rifled the Fitzwilliam’s collections and ruffled the calm of its gilded masterpieces with playful unruliness and stark, neon-lit questions

The Guardian - UK

Lang: Composition as Explanation album review – Gertrude Stein set to music

David Lang has created a freewheeling concert/lecture mashup based on a 1926 Gertrude Stein lecture and ushered into being by the imperious Eighth Blackbird

The Guardian - UK

I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson review – a unique take on sibling torment

A woman is haunted by her abusive relationship with her brother in this experimental novel of family trauma and memory

The Guardian - UK

Experts Press Swiss Foundation Over Nazi-era Art Collection

A Swiss foundation must do more to trace the provenance of works in a vast art collection acquired in questionable circumstances during World War II, a team of experts said Friday.

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Paris and Chariots Of Fire Games made for each other

Paris was at a peak in 1924 when it last hosted the Olympics, with sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots Of Fire.

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Gertrude Stein

The modernist author was born 150 years ago but her writing still feels transgressive – here are some good places to begin

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago outdoors: Buck rut, Gertrude Stein, more mantises, Geneva Lake muskies

A big buck at Illinois Beach State Park, a Chicago mantis making an office visit, the latest stocking of muskies into Geneva Lake in Wisconsin and some poetry from Gertrude Stein are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago Sun-Times

Things to do in Chicago Sept. 28-Oct. 4: The Mix

The ‘Destinos’ theater festival, shows by Dave Chappelle and Peter Gabriel, and the arrival of a touring 12-foot puppet are among the highlights in the week ahead.

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Paris exhibits to see this autumn, from Bollywood to Chagall and Picasso

As Parisians return from their summer holidays and get back to work or school (a period known in France as “la rentrée”), the City of Lights is set for a rich cultural season. From Russian-French artist Marc Chagall to a retrospective on Indian cinema, FRANCE 24 has selected 10 of…

The Guardian - UK

The Weight of Words review – fascinating, curious and occasionally bewildering

Crouching calligraphy, a radiant riposte, a 12-step interrogation of strangers… words take shape in myriad ways as 18 artists explore what happens when poetry and sculpture collide

Reason

"If Pseudonyms, Then What Kind?"

You can read the PDF here and the text here; here are the opening sections: Writers may have their noms de plume; revolutionaries may have noms de guerre. Here, though, we will speak of (to coin a phrase) the noms de litige, and ask: When pseudonymous litigation is allowed, what…

The Conversation

How Ernest Hemingway transformed Pamplona and the Sanfermines

Jake Barnes is an American newspaper correspondent working in Paris in 1922. Cohn, a friend who wanders around. Brett, the beautiful divorcee who has turned the French capital into a platform between two trains. Mike, the promise of a husband she has procured in the meantime. And Bill, a friend…

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Novelist, academic and tattoo artist Samuel Steward's plight shows that 'cancel culture' was alive and well in the 1930s

In January 2023, Hamline University opted not to renew the contract of an art professor who showed a 14th-century depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in class. Hamline labeled the incident “Islamophobic” and released a statement, co-signed by the university’s president, saying that respect for “Muslim students … should have superseded…

The Independent UK

Biden insists there’s ‘nothing’ in classified paper scandal, polls tell otherwise

Phrase, first coined by Gertrude Stein in 1937, has become a popular one on Capitol Hill

Evening Standard

Joe Biden insists there’s no ‘there there’ over classified papers scandal

Mr Biden used the phrase, first coined by the writer Gertrude Stein, as he dismissed the scandal during a visit to storm-ravaged California

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