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Publication: Prospero - The Economist

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Heavy handed

WHEN a trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was released last year, aficionados of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece wasted no time in complaining about how fast, flashy and altogether Baz-Luhrmann-ish it was. Such sceptics won’t be placated ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 17 2013]

Entities: Baz Luhrmann, Joel Edgerton, Great Gatsby

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Reconciling a divided self

EXACTLY 23 years ago today Joshua Prager was in a road accident that changed his life. When the day began he was a 19-year-old in rude health, racing to catch a minibus during a visit to Israel. But a collision with a runaway truck broke his neck, ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 16 2013]

Entities: Herman Melville, Half-Life, Disability

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The battle over scarce resources

THE chief economist at HSBC and author of "When the Money Runs Out" describes how the engines that once drove developed country growth are sputtering and how to avoid a nasty dystopia ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013]

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Crash-landed

AN AIRLINER circles above central Spain. Technical problems have left the plane doomed, destined for a crash-landing. Frantic with nerves, passengers and crew-members descend into an orgy of alcohol, drugs and sex. Thus Pedro Almodóvar, the prince ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013]

Entities: Plane Crash, Pedro Almodovar, Spain, Antonio Banderas

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

The data revolution

THE Economist's data editor discusses his new book about how our unprecedented access to data is changing the way we live and think, in good ways and bad ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 14 2013]

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Destroy and create

"Graffiti & Agitprop" gallerySource: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Facsimile of CBGB bathroom, New York, 1975Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Hardware" gallerySource: The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Destroy" gallerySource: The Metropolitan ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 13 2013]

Entities: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andrew Bolton, John Lydon

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Hammer Film Productions

The undead will live forever

THE original vampires of medieval Slavic myths were described as mindless and decaying, almost pitiable sufferers of the curse they must endure. The popular image of the brooding, seductive and sartorial undead charmer was created in the name of entertainment. ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 10 2013]

Entities: Neil Jordan, Stephenie Meyer, Hammer Film Productions, Béla Lugosi

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Cleaning up

BEHIND the Louvre, on a busy thoroughfare lined with international retailers, sits 59 Rivoli , a former squat that has been converted into a legitimate artistic centre. Once a branch of Crédit Lyonnais, 59 rue de Rivoli had been abandoned for 15 ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 09 2013]

Entities: Squatter, Paris, Constructive Eviction, Antonio Rodriguez, Gertrude Stein

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Lust, jealousy and revenge

GREAT expectations in the theatre can become a burden. When they are not met, audiences quickly turn sour. During Sir Nicholas Hytner’s 10 years as director of the National Theatre in London, expectations have rarely been higher than for his “Othello”, ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 08 2013]

Entities: Adrian Lester, Rory Kinnear, Cyprus

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

I like the way I think

THE author of "The Autistic Brain", who has the condition herself, explains why getting young people with autism into the workforce is vital ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 08 2013]

Entities: Autism

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Canvas-backed securities

“IT IS my urgent desire that the growing partnership between government and the arts continue to be developed to the benefit of both.” These are not the words of a left-wing cultural elitist from New York, but of President Richard Nixon in an intergovernmental ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 07 2013]

Entities: Federal Reserve System, Richard Nixon, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Kushner, The Phillips Collection

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Prints of nature

IT IS a truism that governments are usually bad at picking economic winners and losers. But, as with any man-made rule, there can be exceptions. The story of the Cape Dorset artist collective in the Canadian Arctic is one of them. In the late 1950s ... [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 03 2013]

Entities: Houston (Texas, United States), Hiratsuka (Japan), Canada

Quotes

...Polaroid’s aesthetic? Florian Kaps, The Impossible Project’s Austrian founder, believes the answer lies in the uniqueness of the object itself. "The Polaroid is really one-of-a-kind photography. Each time you look at the image you can be sure the artist himself touched it.” Mr Kaps likens the Polaroid’s appeal to the slow-food movement, or the continued popularity of vinyl records. It is not so much a nostalgic preference as a tactile, corporeal one, “because you are part of the process of the photo becoming an image, the whole thing becomes more valuable.” While many were afraid digital would kill analog technologies, explains Kaps, “digital actually created a demand for the physical.” As one of Polaroid’s old advertising jingles once sang, “It’s more than a camera, it’s almost alive.”"

Instant forever [Published Prospero - The Economist - Apr 17 2013]

...raordinary for a city of scarcely more than 200,000 inhabitants, at a time when almost every country in Europe is cutting back on its arts spending. "Culture costs, but the absence of culture costs much, much more" , thundered Josef Pühringer, the governor of Upper Austria (the region for which Linz is the capital city), at the opening ceremony...

Looking to the future [Published Prospero - The Economist - Apr 16 2013]

...This is a show with resounding rhetoric. Mr Salgado wants us, he says, "to see our planet in another way, to feel moved and brought closer to it" . The wide-angle vistas work on our sense of the sublime. But he brings us closest of all in his pictures of animals and people...

The force of nature [Published Prospero - The Economist - Apr 12 2013]

...She attributes this partly to falling in love with the darkroom process while studying photography at New York University in the 1980s: "NYU had these glorious darkrooms with revolving doors and chemicals that came out of pipes...when I got back to Bombay I set up a darkroom in my parents' house." Yet Ms Sheth admits that it might be time to move on from this traditional form and embrace digital technology and colour for her next project: “I have...

Poor in things, rich in soul [Published Prospero - The Economist - Apr 05 2013]

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The battle over scarce resources [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013]
Crash-landed [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013]
The data revolution [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 14 2013]
Destroy and create [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 13 2013]
The undead will live forever [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 10 2013]
Cleaning up [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 09 2013]
Lust, jealousy and revenge [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 08 2013]
I like the way I think [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 08 2013]
Canvas-backed securities [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 07 2013]
Prints of nature [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 03 2013]
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Heavy handed [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 17 2013] WHEN a trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was released last year, aficionados of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece wasted no time in complaining about how fast, flashy and altogether Baz-Luhrmann-ish it was. Such sceptics won’t be placated ...
Reconciling a divided self [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 16 2013] EXACTLY 23 years ago today Joshua Prager was in a road accident that changed his life. When the day began he was a 19-year-old in rude health, racing to catch a minibus during a visit to Israel. But a collision with a runaway truck broke his neck, ...
The battle over scarce resources [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013] THE chief economist at HSBC and author of "When the Money Runs Out" describes how the engines that once drove developed country growth are sputtering and how to avoid a nasty dystopia ...
Crash-landed [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 15 2013] AN AIRLINER circles above central Spain. Technical problems have left the plane doomed, destined for a crash-landing. Frantic with nerves, passengers and crew-members descend into an orgy of alcohol, drugs and sex. Thus Pedro Almodóvar, the prince ...
The data revolution [Published Prospero - The Economist - May 14 2013] THE Economist's data editor discusses his new book about how our unprecedented access to data is changing the way we live and think, in good ways and bad ...