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...Pianist Aruán Ortiz was equally adept at stretching Thelonious Monk-like angularities as he was placing chords artfully or spiralling up the keyboard at warp-factor speed....
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...The portrait of what American high culture expects from “real” black art has a droll ring of truth; so too the general literary ambience. (What makes a successful panel at a book festival?...
...Later in the set, two Ross originals combine with Monk’s “Evidence” and ebb and flow naturally without a break — the final bars pull Monk’s theme apart, sprint at pace and then stop dead....
...In this case, black artists are making art about not being able to make the art they want to make, because of racism....
...But it is Ross who most sums up the past and ushers in the new with state-of-the-art musicianship....
...The monks must remain mindful of their holy devotion....
...She studied art history at Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts and sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, then started her career as a dancer and moved back to New York in the mid-1960s...
...Patiño’s film is by turns aesthetic, even abstract (its Laos section is a rhapsody in orange, from the monks’ robes to the intense filter over a seascape) and highly material (close-ups of gelatinous seaweed...
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...That monks and nuns have historically been excellent distillers, brewers and chocolatiers is pretty common knowledge. Increasingly, however, the young novice is reviving cosmetology as well....
...They [the monks] don’t want it to be a brewery with a monastery,” said Grady. But “without the brewery . . . they would just run their reserves down”....
...Leather shoes, Bear’s own Model Lukas Dietrich, 19, wears Bottega Veneta technical cotton/silk coat, £2,600, printed cotton shirt (just seen), £4,390, leather denim-print trousers, £4,660, leather monk...
...He sees the Golden Road as an early example of how cultural influence and soft power spread from “the Indosphere” to Eurasia, via monks, merchants, artists, astronomers and scientists, creating “an empire...
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