The Week In Culture (PHOTOS)

The Week In Culture

Last week in culture, Iggy Pop and bullfighters struck poses, while others ran away from striking bulls. Click on for more from the week.

Week In Culture
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Iggy Pop from Iggy and The Stooges performs at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in London's Hyde Park, Friday, July 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short) (credit:AP)
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Spanish bullfighter Julian Lopez 'El Juli' performs with a Victoriano del Rio ranch fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (credit:AP)
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This undated theater image released by National Theatre of Scotland shows Alan Cumming in "Macbeth." In the play, Cumming appears as a patient in a white-tiled mental hospital for whom the plot of "Macbeth is sort of a schizophrenic nightmare. The production, which started in Scotland in mid-June before coming to New York for the next few days as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. (AP Photo/National Theatre of Scotland, Manuel Harlan) (credit:AP)
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In this photograph provided by The Canadian Press Images/Festival d'ete de Quebec via AP Images, Aerosmith performs at the 45th Festival d'ete de Quebec on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City on Thursday, July 12, 2012. The Festival d'ete de Quebec is Canada's largest music festival with more than 1000 artists and close to 300 shows over 11 days. (The Canadian Press Images PHOTO/Festival d'ete de Quebec via AP Images) (credit:AP)
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A Balinese boy wears a mask as he holds the rope of a giant traditional kite during a kite festival on Padang Galak island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, July 13, 2012. The three-day national kite festival was organized to promote tourism on the resort island. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) (credit:AP)
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A lady uses her smartphone to photograph a Water Lily at the Singapore Garden Festival on Thursday July 12, 2012 in Singapore.( AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (credit:AP)
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Revelers run and fall in front of Victoriano del Rio's ranch fighting bulls during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (credit:AP)
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A Mongolian horseman holds a national flag as he leads children jockeys to the starting point of a horse racing competition during the second day of the Naadam Festival in Khui Doloon Khudag, on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Thursday, July 12, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to the world conquest with the annual sporting festival featuring traditional Mongolian events such as wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:AP)
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Mongolian child jockeys compete in a horse racing competition during the second day of the Naadam Festival held in Khui Doloon Khudag, on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Thursday, July 12, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to the world conquest with the annual sporting festival featuring traditional Mongolian events such as wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:AP)
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In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 photo, American blues legend B.B. King performs on stage at the Live at Sunset Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri) (credit:AP)
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Mongolian women take part in an archery competition during the Naadam Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest on July 11 with the annual sports festival featuring traditional Mongolian events including wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:AP)
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A vendor barbecues chicken at the Taste of Chicago Food Festival on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong) (credit:AP)
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Mongolians in traditional costumes perform during the Naadam Festival opening ceremony in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest on July 11 with the annual sports festival featuring traditional Mongolian events including wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:AP)
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Trinity Redgun, 2, wanders onto the stage during a native dancing ceremony in the Indian Village at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. This is the 100th anniversary of the Stampede which runs for 10 days featuring rodeo action, chuckwagon races, a midway, agricultural exhibits and live stock competitions. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh) (credit:AP)
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A Kanwaria, worshipper of Hindu God Shiva, smokes marijuana and dances to devotional songs in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Kanwarias are devotees performing a ritual pilgrimage in which they walk the roads of India, clad in saffron, and carrying ornately decorated canisters of the sacred water of the Ganges River over their shoulders, to take it back to Hindu temples in their hometowns, during the Hindu lunar month of Shravana. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (credit:AP)
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In this Tuesday, July 10, 2012 photo, dancer Michaela DePrince rehearses for her lead role in Le Corsaire in Johannesburg. DePrince, who was born in Sierra Leone, escaped the civil war and was adopted by a family in the U.S. This will be DePrince's first professional full ballet role. (AP Photo Denis Farrell) (credit:AP)
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A patron reads a leaflet in front of a run-down ticket box at Seoul's last old-style one-screen cinema at Seodaemun Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Seoul's last old-style one-screen cinema, soon to be knocked down and replaced by a new tourist hotel, played its final movie Wednesday - the Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief."(AP Photo/Hye Soo Nah) (credit:AP)
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Cast members of orphans from the Broadway musical "Annie" perform during a photo session at the Marina Bay Sands Theater on Tuesday July 10, 2012 in Singapore. The Broadway and West End classic which includes British comedy star Su Pollard and screen veteran David McAllister will showcase in the city-state for a month. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (credit:AP)
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Mickey Rooney, a cast member in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," poses at the kick-off of The Last 70mm Film Festival presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Monday, July 9, 2012, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (credit:AP)
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Guest attends KA By Cirque du Soleil And Marvel Entertainment Debut KA Comic Book during Comic-Con International 2012 at San Diego Convention Center on July 14, 2012 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil) (credit:Getty)
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A Lindy Hop dancer performs during the Optimus Alive music festival at Alges, on the outskirts of Lisbon on July 14, 2012. The Optimus Alive music festival runs from July 13 to July 15, 2012. AFP PHOTO/PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA (credit:Getty)
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Dancers Nolwenn Daniel and Benjamin Pech with the Paris Opera Ballet wait to perform a scene from ' L'Arlésienne ' during a dress rehearsal July 11, 2012 before opening night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Festival with three programs: the U.S. premiere of Pina Bausch's Orpheus and Eurydice; Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot's Giselle; and a bill that celebrates 20th-century French choreographers, featuring Serge Lifar's Suite en blanc, Roland Petit's L'Arlésienne and Maurice Béjart's Boléro. AFP PHOTO TIMOTHY A. CLARY (credit:Getty)
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Actors play during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi' opera in four acts " I Lombardi alla prima crociata " (Die Lombarden) at the DomStufen open air festival (Domstufen-Festspiele) in front of the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary) in Erfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The 70 cathedral steps which run between the magnificent architectural ensemble of the Cathedral of St. Mary and the Church of St. Severus are transformed in one of the world's most beautiful festival stages. The premiere of the opera is held on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) (credit:AP)
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Johanna Gehring walks in the installation 'Bathroom' by members of E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design Wroclaw, Poland, during a press preview at the international exhibition of contemporary arts 'OSTRALE' in Dresden, eastern Germany, Friday, July 13, 2012. 245 artists from 33 nations show a wide range of national and international contemporary art. Every year for two months the OSTRALE invites national and international artists to take part in a remarkable event at a historical site. Focus of attention is the relation between tradition and innovation. The exhibition starts on July 13, 2012 and last until Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) (credit:AP)
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Workers load paintings onto a truck outside an art gallery in Beijing Thursday, July 12, 2012. From shopkeepers to shipbuilders, some areas are feeling more pain from China's deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis than still-robust headline growth of about 8 percent might suggest. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) (credit:AP)
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Employees of the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens unveil the painting "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist", a copy after Peter Paul Rubens, before a repatriation ceremony at the picture gallery of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The painting was taken to Russia by a member of the Red Army during or after World War II, finally found in the U.S. and now returned by the U.S. authorities. The Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens lost about 4000 works of art during and in the aftermath of World War II. Even more then 65 years after the war 89 of about 180 paintings from the collection of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, are missing. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer) (credit:AP)
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A street performer dressed as an character from the science fiction film Avatar walks among the crowds near Mexico City's main plaza, the Zocalo, Friday, July 13, 2012. Street performers, many dressed in costumes, gathered to protest in the historic downtown area where once they were allowed to perform but are now run off by police. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) (credit:AP)
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This undated image released by Guy Oseary shows pop star Madonna, center, during the filming of her music video for her new single, (credit:AP)

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