Twelve Hours, 14 Actors and One Very Long Sentence: Lyon Stages Proust as a Marathon
A new production at the Théâtre des Célestins compresses all seven volumes of “In Search of Lost Time” into a single day, meals included. The run is sold out.
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Translated Fiction Is the Hottest Property in the Hall
With the Czech Republic as guest of honor and sales of translated novels up sharply across Europe, publishers spent the week bidding for books most of them cannot read.
A Baroque Opera Lost for 300 Years Returns to Dresden, Where It Was Born
Johann Caspar Ritterlein’s “L’Erminia,” last performed in 1719 and rediscovered in a parish archive, opened a sold-out run at the Semperoper on Friday.
A Collector's Cabinet, Scattered for 400 Years, Comes Back Together
A Flemish painting of a picture gallery shows 32 identifiable works. A museum in Antwerp has now reunited 19 of them in the same room.
The Venice Biennale Picks a Curator Who Says She Is Tired of Spectacle
The next edition will be smaller, slower and less photographed, if its curator gets her way. Collectors are already nervous.
At Frieze London, the Crowds Are Back. The Checkbooks Are Smaller.
After two difficult years, dealers reported steady sales at the fair in Regent’s Park, most of them below 100,000 pounds, as collectors favored works on paper and younger artists.
