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Today's news: Bike chases, Pre-Raphs and Chinese art with a difference...

CultureCritic | 12.September.2012 | 15:58

Its premise might sound like a computer game, but the first bike chase movie (perhaps) staring Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't doing a bad job at impressing the critics...

The Victorians were many things but hardly avant-garde, right? Wrong apparently! The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was Britain's first modern art movement, and Tate Britain's new dedicated exhibition opens today...

Presumably, then, the Pre-Raphs will feature in the new book by art historian, comic and BBC arts editor Will Gompertz, which promises to cover 150 years of modern art 'in the blink of an eye', (or around 450 pages)... 

For a fresh look at contemporary Chinese art, The Hayward's new performance-based show has just opened and is being heralded the opposite of run-of-the-mill. The FT says it 'forbids us to treat China as a romantic or fearful other'...  

The verdict is in on two new stagings of Shakespeare plays in London and Sheffield. King Lear at London's Almedia has Jonathon Pryce, but falls short of being a major production of the play (said the Evening Standard)...

Macbeth at the Crucible in Sheffield is also not a major production, but makes up for it with the requisite gore and supernatural effects...

Junot Díaz' new book gets the critical thumbs up. Nice work, Junot...

...and here's a nice new video from A Winged Victory For The Sullen, courtesy of Erased Tapes... 

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