Matthew Anderson
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European Culture Editor @nytimes 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇦🇺
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Joined February 2013
Can anyone guess what I‘m seeing at the theatre tonight?
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Exhibitions - The Milk of Dreams (Venice Biennale) - Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death (Musée d’Orsay) - Boris Mikhailov (Maison européen de la photographie) - Sally Gabori (Fondation Cartier) - Zanele Muholi (Gropius Bau) -Dayanita Singh: Dancing With My Camera (Gropius Bau)
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Opera - Intolleranza 1960 (Komische Oper) - Peter Grimes (Royal Opera House) - The Wreckers (Glyndebourne) - La Belle Hélène (Komische Oper) - Ring cycle (Berliner Staatsoper)
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Theater - The Seven Streams of the River Ota (Ex Machina/Schaubühne) - Oklahoma! (Young Vic) - Hamilton (Stage Operettenhaus) - Doughnuts (Thalia) - Und sicher ist mit mir die Welt verschwunden (Gorki) - Ophelia’s Got Talent (Volksbühne)
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Movies - Aftersun - Close - Corsage - Rimini - Flux Gourmet - Drive My Car - Mr. Bachmann and His Class
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Really can’t be bothered with Twitter at the moment, BUT – I kept this list, so I will post it. Some cultural highlights of 2022: ✨
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at the MoMA Tillman exhibit we entered a large dark space where a solitary individual was lying on the floor perusing his cell phone. several viewers were standing watching, others filed in. when we left we learned that the installation wasn't beginning for 4 hrs.
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"There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.” https://t.co/6PPYqTfqU5
washingtonpost.com
The number of likely departures prompted Musk to ease his return-to-office edict and managers to meet to decide which engineers to ask back.
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A court in Hamburg ruled that die Zeit must remove “around ten sentences and phrases” from its story on Johann König. What were they?? Sorry, can’t say.
#MeToo allegations against the prominent German art dealer Johann König have sparked a battle in German courts: https://t.co/REFZoFpLru
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“If I’m going to sit through a hagiography for the royal family, I need to be lubricated” https://t.co/E24IauCauz I went and watched the Crown with some republicans
nytimes.com
Since the show debuted in 2016, there has been an increase in republican sentiment. How has the show contributed to that?
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He gesticulated with big swings of his arms while discussing everything from Ukraine to Detroit house music. (“I just spent the last week together with Juan Atkins, who I think is one of the most influential DJs of electronic music …”)
nymag.com
Axel Springer’s CEO wants to be an old-school press baron for the digital age.
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“It’s absolutely not clear if he can come back or not,” said the Berlin State Opera’s managing director. “We are aware of that. We have to be aware of that. And also Daniel is expecting us to be aware of that.”
nytimes.com
The pianist and conductor turns 80 soon, but deteriorating health has kept him from the celebrations he had long planned.
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Defunding ENO is devastating – but the writing was on the wall, writes its former musical director Mark Wigglesworth
theguardian.com
The decision to produce fewer operas at English National Opera sowed the seeds of last week’s disaster – which strips London of an irreplaceable cultural jewel, writes the company’s former musical...
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I wrote about "Starmania" @LaSeineMusicale, a musical at once beloved in France - I'd never seen a *pre-show* standing ovation - and elusive on stage
nytimes.com
Songs from “Starmania” are frequently heard and covered in France, but until a new production opened in Paris, few had a chance to see the 1979 rock opera onstage.
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These disputed artifacts are from a time before human civilization. They aren’t linked to cultural traditions or artistic practices of any specific society, and they can’t be identified as anyone’s ancestral remains.
nytimes.com
An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now.
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“The reality, revealed most starkly by immigration policy but which is equally true in a workplace or a playground, is that your minority status is largely something that is done to you rather than how you feel yourself” - @stephenkb, on point
ft.com
An individual’s self-declared status is ultimately secondary to how states choose to identify them
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AHMED: It looks less like leveling up to the rest of the country and more like leveling down the cultural life of our one global city. What would you say? SEROTA: Well, once again, I am having difficulty hearing you ... AHMED: I find that surprising. https://t.co/Nn5maoOxQZ
bbc.co.uk
Arts Council funding, the art of the infographic, film director Tas Brooker.
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