ARTS http://arts.wpb2.com Arts blog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en White Lies in Iceland http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/white-lies-in-iceland/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/white-lies-in-iceland/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:19 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/white-lies-in-iceland/ “There is nothing to do here except drinking and fucking. So then … this is what we do,” so begins the White Lies’ account of Reykjavik’s music festival, Iceland Airwaves. And here’s what the experience looked like …

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/white-lies-in-iceland/feed/ Scene and heard: Get ready for aquacrunk http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/scene-and-heard-get-ready-for-aquacrunk/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/scene-and-heard-get-ready-for-aquacrunk/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:36:11 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/scene-and-heard-get-ready-for-aquacrunk/ Lanre Bakare: The sound of hip-hop done the Glaswegian way has spread from its native city and caught the attention of electronica fans worldwide

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/scene-and-heard-get-ready-for-aquacrunk/feed/ You review: Burn After Reading http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/you-review-burn-after-reading/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/you-review-burn-after-reading/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:28:09 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/you-review-burn-after-reading/ You review: Critics have been strongly divided by the Coen brothers’ new film. But what did you make of it?

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/you-review-burn-after-reading/feed/ Rimsky-Korsakov: the forgotten centenary http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/rimsky-korsakov-the-forgotten-centenary/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/rimsky-korsakov-the-forgotten-centenary/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:11:01 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/rimsky-korsakov-the-forgotten-centenary/ Tom Service: The great Russian composer died 100 years ago this year, but his works are poorly represented in concert programmes

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/rimsky-korsakov-the-forgotten-centenary/feed/ Poem of the week: Dover Beach http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/poem-of-the-week-dover-beach/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/poem-of-the-week-dover-beach/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:05:01 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/poem-of-the-week-dover-beach/ Carol Rumens: Arnold’s formal innovation in this honeymoon poem shows he could have been a great poet

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/poem-of-the-week-dover-beach/feed/ Philippe Priasso’s duet with a mechanical digger http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/philippe-priassos-duet-with-a-mechanical-digger/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/philippe-priassos-duet-with-a-mechanical-digger/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:02:41 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/philippe-priassos-duet-with-a-mechanical-digger/ Watch a clip from Transports Exceptionnels, Philippe Priasso’s emotional duet with a 13-tonne digger

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/philippe-priassos-duet-with-a-mechanical-digger/feed/ Fame and death collide in Leibovitz exhibition at National Portrait Gallery exhibition http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/fame-and-death-collide-in-leibovitz-exhibition-at-national-portrait-gallery-exhibition/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/fame-and-death-collide-in-leibovitz-exhibition-at-national-portrait-gallery-exhibition/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:47:07 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/fame-and-death-collide-in-leibovitz-exhibition-at-national-portrait-gallery-exhibition/ A strange mix of Leibovitz’s celebrity images and personal photographs in the National Portrait Gallery’s retrospective leaves Liz Jobey bewildered

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/fame-and-death-collide-in-leibovitz-exhibition-at-national-portrait-gallery-exhibition/feed/ Xan Brooks on week two of the London film festival http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/xan-brooks-on-week-two-of-the-london-film-festival/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/xan-brooks-on-week-two-of-the-london-film-festival/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:31 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/xan-brooks-on-week-two-of-the-london-film-festival/ Xan Brooks: After a sunny first week, the films and the weather at the festival start to get a little chillier

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/xan-brooks-on-week-two-of-the-london-film-festival/feed/ New band of the day - No 413: Riz MC http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/new-band-of-the-day-no-413-riz-mc/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/new-band-of-the-day-no-413-riz-mc/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:43:40 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/new-band-of-the-day-no-413-riz-mc/ Although involved in pirate radio, there’s more to Riz than urban chatter, ranting and rhyming: he’s just as comfortable debating the complexities of 21st-century culture and politics

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]]> http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/new-band-of-the-day-no-413-riz-mc/feed/ John Crace Digests Brave New World by Aldous Huxley http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/john-crace-digests-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley/ http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/john-crace-digests-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:38:39 +0000 n4 http://arts.wpb2.com/2008/10/20/john-crace-digests-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley/ John Crace gets to grips with Huxley’s classic view of the future

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