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An unsatisfying speed-date
The film adaptation of Evening is as quietly desperate as the
lives of the novel's central characters. As critical reaction
sours, the PR turns to damage limitation , writes
Belinda McKeon. p
No stone unturned
Matthew Bogdanos, the man charged with recovering stolen artefacts from Iraq's national museum, won't rest until everything is returned, he tells Sean O'Driscoll in New York. p
ConText: Starchitect
Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry - architects who have become so famous that even readers of Heat magazine know their names. Like celebrity chefs and gardeners, starchitects don't do understated - their designs are often showy and grandiose, such as Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, or the tower designs Libeskind submitted for the site of the World Trade Center. p
Should we let kids be clothes horses?
Give Me a Break/Kate Holmquist: I'm standing in an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Massachusetts surrounded by semi-nude Adonises wearing nothing but boxer shorts. They ask if there's anything they can do to help? Would I like another size? I don't know where to look. p
Live art: the surprise packages
Dublin Fringe Festival: Spontaneity was the key to the various live art and visual events at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival. It was not merely about artists attempting to surprise unsuspecting city-goers with random acts of performance (Lost Luggage, Somaticity), but about audience members being asked to participate in arbitrary acts of public mortification. p
Reviews
"Truth is truth" was projected on the back wall during Mark Carberry's performance of Knot. It seemed a through-thread in the evening's three works but was most tangled in Carberry's collaboration, which brought elements of improvisation as elliptical points spun out to create fractals on screen. p
Fringe awards: winners and nominees
This year's Dublin Fringe Festival presented awards in 10 categories at the weekend. p
