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America's most renowned architect

• Restoring Wright
  

  The difficult task of preserving Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin

• • • Frank Lloyd Wright's war on the box
    • More Intelligent Life
  • • The aptly named Fallingwater reopens (Mar 2002)
  • • Topic page: Architecture

Mike Leigh's "Ecstasy"

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  Party like it's 1979

  For the first time, Mike Leigh is reviving one of his own plays. Isabel Lloyd talks to him about the highs, and lows, of "Ecstasy" - Intelligent Life

• • • Mike Leigh's remarkably unremarkable film, "Another Year" (Nov 2010)
    • Prospero
    • (2)
  • • Mike Leigh's “Two Thousand Years” (Sep 2005)

New model metropolises

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  Paradises on earth

  How cities will evolve (5)

• • • A special report on property
    • (12)
  • • How cities make us richer, smarter and happier
    • (8)

The ruins of Detroit

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  Up from the ashes

  Two photographers on the weird and intimate beauty of rotting buildings - Prospero (3)

• • • A novice takes charge of Michigan, America’s most troubled state (Jan 2011)
    • (9)
  • • Detroit's emptiness has given rise to some interesting art (Dec 2009)
    • (14)

Illustrated books

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  The curious journey of Curious George

  The little storybook monkey had many big adventures, but none so dramatic as what his German Jewish creators experienced - More Intelligent Life

• • • "Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey"
    • Contemporary Jewish Museum

Japan's dark underbelly

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  Doing justice

  A review of "People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman" by Richard Lloyd Parry (11)

• • • Richard Lloyd Parry on Japanese justice
    • Multimedia
    • (1)

Jan Gossaert’s renaissance

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  Illuminating a master

  An influential Flemish painter who invested a rare bit of heat in his mythological nudes - Prospero (3)

• • • Jan Gossart at the Met (Oct 2010)
    • Prospero
  • • The National Gallery on the complexities of attribution (Jul 2010)

The Academy Awards

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  Business as usual

  Hollywood's tightly scripted annual backslapping session (5)

• • • And the Oscar should go to...
    • Prospero
    • (6)
  • • Topic page: Film Awards

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