Tag: Culture
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Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls
In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums
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Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined – review
Royal Academy, LondonThe Royal Academy’s ambitious look beyond the purely visual aspects of architecture is full of surprisesGallery: see some of the installations from Sensing Spaces
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Edgar Allan Poe: dividing audiences for nearly two centuries
Many of his peers found his writing pretty hard to stomach. But, like us, they still read it
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Luc Besson opens luxury Paris multiplex
Twelve-screen cinema in exclusive shopping mall will offer patrons champagne and caviar• Luc Besson: ‘Why I couldn’t give up making films’• Luc Besson: Guardian/BFI interview
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Guitar hero: Coriolanus goes rock
China’s most controversial director is bringing Shakespeare’s Coriolanus to Edinburgh – with two heavy-metal bands in tow. Andrew Dickson went to Beijing to hear the Bard turned up to 11
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The Great Beauty: playboy of the Italian world
Toni Servillo has become known as Paolo Sorrentino’s muse. He talks about his latest role as an indolent playboy in a grand, swooning epic