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Touring Mallorca, À La Carte FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 26-28, 2010 Amsterdam sinologist Otto Franke (1863-1946) Until June 13 % art through paintings and objects from 44-131-624-6200 “Kienholz: Hoerengracht” displays a his studies in Asia. www.nationalgalleries.org walk-through evocation of Amster- Museum Dahlem- dam’s red-light district by American Museum of Asian Art London Until May 24 artists Edward and Nancy Kienholz. music % 49-30-8301-382 Amsterdam Historisch Museum “Teenage Cancer Trust 2010,” www.smb.museum Until Aug. 29 is being supported by top Brit- % 31-20-5231-822 ish musical acts, including Arctic music www.ahm.nl Monkeys and The Who, “Festtage 2010” is a classical-music festi- which will perform Barcelona val, featuring opera performances of “Eu- “Quadrophenia.” gene Onegin,” “Simon Boccanegra” and March 26, Noel film “Tristan and Isolde” alongside recitals. Gallagher “Frederico Fellini: The Circus of Illusions” Staatsoper Unter den Linden March 27, presents more than 400 images illus- Until April 5 Arctic Monkeys trating the work process, inspirations % 49-30-2035-4438 March 28, JLS and films of the Italian director. www.staatsoper-berlin.org March 29, The Specials CaixaForum Barcelona March 30, The Who Until June 13 Bilbao Royal Albert Hall % 34-93-4768-600 art www.royalalberthall.com obrasocial.lacaixa.es “Anish Kapoor” is a touring exhibition presenting 20 major sculptural works design music by the Turner Prize-winning artist, “Sustainable Future” show- “Woody Allen and His New Orleans from the 1970s to the present. cases prototypes, samples, Sammlung Otto Franke, Privatbesitz Jazz Band” conclude the European Museo Guggenheim Bilbao products and films illustrat- March tour of the jazz ensemble. Until Oct. 12 ing the possibilities of sustain- Touring Mallorca, March 28, Palau de la Musica, % 34-94-435-9000 ability in modern design. Barcelona www.guggenheim-bilbao.es Design Museum March 29, Terme, Montecatini March 31-Sept. 5 March 30, Teatro La Fenice, Venice Above, Chinese order of the double dragon, à la carte % Bonn 44-20-7940-8790 awarded by the Chinese government to March 31, Academia Santa Cecilia, art designmuseum.org Rome Otto Franke in 1898, on show in Berlin; “Erwin Wurm” shows work by the bottom left, Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. Exploring the island’s food trails www.woodyallenband.com Austrian artist known for his “one- music minute sculptures” as well as his use “Chopin: The Romantic Refugee” exam- Berlin of cars, potatoes, cucumbers and ines the life of composer Frédéric art other ordinary objects in his artwork. Chopin, presenting rare historic record- cise on Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” un- parts circulating in blackness. “Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum: Kunstmuseum Bonn ings, letters and documents. dertaken by Goya in 1778. Pinakothek der Moderne Masterpieces of Islamic Art” show- Until June 6 The British Library Museo Nacional del Prado Until June 27 % 49-228-7762-11 Until May 16 cases 200 works chosen from 1,000 Until May 30 % 49-89-2380-5360 years of Islamic culture, including www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de % 44-843-2081-144 % 34-91-3302-800 www.pinakothek.de paintings, drawings and ceramics. www.bl.uk www.museodelprado.es Martin Gropius Bau Edinburgh Oslo % 49-30-2548-6236 photography music Until June 6 “Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus” showcases Madrid Munich “Andrea Bocelli” presents the Italian www.berlinerfestspiele.de 70 black-and-white photographs by the art art American photographer, spanning her “Richard Hamilton: Picasso’s Meninas” “Pipilotti Rist: Extremities (smooth, tenor reciting classic standards as well history career from the mid-1950s until her explores a 1973 portfolio by the Brit- smooth)” displays an audio-visual in- as pop and personal compositions. “Cultural Pictures from China” cele- death in 1971. ish Pop artist entitled “Homage to Pic- stallation by the Swiss artist present- April 8, Telenor Arena, Oslo brates the life and work of German Dean Gallery asso,” alongside a similar artistic exer- ing an array of free-floating body April 9, Copenhagen Forum April 11, Globe Arena, Stockholm www.andreabocelli.com Paris art “Tao, Another Way of Being” exam- ines the religious and cultural impor- tance of Taoism in China through 250 objects, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles. Grand Palais March 31-July 5 % 33-1-4413-1717 www.grandpalais.fr fashion “An Ideal History of Contemporary Fashion, vol. I: 70-80” illustrates the history of contemporary fashion from the 1970s to the 1980s. Les Arts Decoratifs April 1-Oct. 10 % 33-1-4455-5750 www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr Stockholm art “Lee Lozano” offers a a retrospective of work by the American artist (1930-99) including her avant-garde, minimalist and conceptual art. Moderna Museet Until April 25 % 46-8-5195-5200 www.modernamuseet.se Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Ser- vice, WSJE research. Chiaki Nozu W12 Friday - Sunday, March 26 - 28, 2010 | WEEKEND JOURNAL Wine:Wine: The Playing best of with Christmas the Rhône drinking The artEuropean of copying Web masterpieces habits revealed v Books Bookshelf / By Paul Levy Contents 7 3 | Interview 6-7 | Cover story Travel 10 | Top Picks From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Ever since they appeared to- lacks both the darkly mordant few identifiable characters—in beginnings on a frozen fjord,” Tom Aldous the key to work out Mads Mikkelsen gether with 18 other young Brit- wit, and the perpetually shocking particular, one long set-piece in which is reminiscent of Evelyn how to produce clean energy by Mapping Mallorca ‘Romeo and Juliet” triumphs ish novelists in a 1983 issue of revelations about human behav- which the protagonist, Michael Waugh’s writing “Scoop” as a re- mimicking the process of photosyn- on being an action hero Granta magazine, Martin Amis ior, that characterize his best fic- Beard—a self-indulgent, glutton- sult of being sent to cover Mussoli- thesis in the vegetable kingdom, Exploring the island’s exquisite food trails and Ian McEwan have seemed to tion. Because Keith and the au- ous, alcoholic, unprepossessing, ni’s invasion of Abyssinia: a comic and releasing usable quantities of Art by Robert De Niro, Sr. be part of the same literary gang. thor are in so many respects iden- womanizing and much-married response to a sinister occasion by hydrogen from water. Mr. McEwan 4-5 | Food & Wine One difference, though, is that Mr. tical, it is not surprising that the Nobel Prize-winning physicist— a mature artist. Mr. McEwan’s elaborates this in its totally grip- Amis is a publicity magnet. He narrator shows a bit of tender- goes on an expedition to the Arc- achievement is the more remark- ping, and entirely hilarious, detail. A beautiful patchwork of a show has only to say something satiri- ness for him, which makes him tic Circle. Mr. McEwan was on able, though, for being funny Beard of course steals his student’s cally whimsical (for example, pro- very different from the other fic- just such a voyage in 2005. about climate change—a feat that work, in another sub-plot that in- Chef Tim Raue’s posing euthanasia booths on ev- tional Keith (Talent), of Mr. volves an apparent murder and de- Collecting: Garden ornamentation ery street-corner to deal with the Amis’s biting book, “Money.” pends pleasingly on the literary unusual approach t “silver tsunami” of baby-boomers) “The Pregnant Widow” quali- conventions of the thriller. This to be denounced in the letters fies, of course, for all sorts of for- seems to me plot-construction (as 11 | Books pages of every national newspa- eign language descriptors: It’s also Beard would say) of another order per. Consequently he is a house- a Bildungsroman, a record of the of magnitude from some of the hold name, sentimental writer’s earlier work; meticulous whereas Mr. education of a and tidy, there are no unraveled, New books from McEwan’s ce- The Pregnant Widow bookish, sex- floppy or unfastened ends. lebrity is a lit- By Martin Amis obsessed Ox- Along the way Mr. McEwan Amis and McEwan tle more spe- (Jonathan Cape, 480 pages, £18.99) ford under- seizes every opportunity for fre- cialized. graduate read- quent (and brilliant) set-pieces, of Both au- ing English which the most audacious is a Sergio Formoso Solar 12 | Time Off thors have with an long section in which Beard learns Port of Soller on the coast of la Serra of Tramuntana in Mallorca. now pub- By Ian McEwan equally obses- enough about Milton almost to lished sub- (Jonathan Cape, 304 pages, £18.99) sive interest earn a degree, in order to seduce Alicia Guirao COVER , Valldemossa, Mallorca. Our arts stantial new in the origins a girl reading English at Oxford. Photograph by Salvador Busquets. novels that of words. The In another, Beard falls narrowly Wine: Playing with the Rhône and culture are in part autobiographical ro- trouble is precisely that it is so short of duelling over a packet of mans à clef. Mr. Amis has made it sentimental, and at 500 pages, too salt-and-vinegar-flavored potato 8 | Art t clear that the major part of “The long and demanding of the read- chips, which illustrates his greed, calendar Random House (2) Pregnant Widow”—detailing the er’s attention for such slight mat- but also presents another amiably love affairs of one 20-year-old ters. Indeed the real interest for In this novel—an artistically involves him mastering a great droll academic target for satire. Replicating masterpieces protagonist, Keith Nearing, during this reader was in the sub-plots in- ambitious, though seriously enter- deal of genuine science, in order Throughout, the reader is never the summer of 1970, which he volving the sad decline of Keith’s taining, response to the facts of to invent the cod-science that is in any doubt that Mr.
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