Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The Alphabet (Google) subsidiary "says it removed 8.3m videos for breaching its community guidelines between October and December last year as it tries to address criticism of violent and of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]"As conversations about bullying heat up throughout the country, with the role of social media and the effects on adolescent mental health emerging as related concerns, there's no better tim…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]The Dunya Contemporary Art Prize, a biennial award which includes a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art and an exhibition with a catalogue as well as $100,000, goes to Sophia Al-M…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:36AM[SHARE]"[Sierra] Boggess, who got her start as Ariel in Broadway's The Little Mermaid in 2007 before joining the casts of Phantom of the Opera and School of Rock, [had been cast as] Maria in a Roya…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The piece spurring the conversation [at Pacific Northwest Ballet] is RAkU, created in 2011 by Ukranian-born Yuri Possokhov, who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow before becoming the …
SOURCE: crosscut.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]"The priceless tome was brought to an Alençon (Orne, Normandy) auctioneer specialising in the sale of religious objects, by an anonymous owner several months ago. It was discovered to hav…
SOURCE: www.connexionfrance.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]"The sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, designed by Dutch firm Mecanoo Architects, was recently completed in the southern port city of Kaohsiung ... Sl…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]Julie Fuchs says that the management of the Hamburg State Opera has informed her that she cannot perform the role of Pamina in this spring's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte because "…
SOURCE: www.classicfm.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
The arzuhalciler, petition writers or public scribes who set up shop in the streets, go back to the early years of the Ottoman Empire, composing and writing legal documents for citizens to s…
SOURCE: www.atlasobscura.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
"I also think that he was a playwright who was very confident in his interpretation of the play. I once heard him say, 'No actor or director has ever shown me anything in one of my plays tha…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:24PM[SHARE]It was, in her words, "a fucking compulsion," says Tommy, a mixed-race native of Cape Town who came to Massachusetts with her family at age 15. "I believed the lie that the reason that there…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:54PM[SHARE]"Jewish Italian musicologist and pianist Francesco Lotoro has devoted his life to unearthing thousands of songs and scores written during the Holocaust. ... Lotoro has catalogued symphonies,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:48PM[SHARE]"Jean-François Sudre, a music teacher in 19th-century France, ... [had a] vision of a universal language [that] transcended linguistic boundaries. From written and spoken word to melody, …
SOURCE: www.atlasobscura.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]"By the mid-1960s, it was assumed in some circles that all of the possibilities for painting were exhausted - that the medium had, more or less, died. But some painters pushed back against t…
SOURCE: www.artnews.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Nineteen-year-old Allan Monga, who arrived (legally) in Portland last year as a refugee from Zambia, won the Maine state finals of the NEA's Poetry Out Loud contest last month. All state cha…
SOURCE: www.pressherald.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The Tate briefly flirted with the idea of splitting in two and setting up an entirely separate Museum of Modern Art, inspired by the success of MoMA in New York. This was in the early 1990s…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]"For Saddam, the ruined city of Babylon had always held a special fascination. He ordered an ambitious reconstruction of the city's walls, costing millions of dollars at the height of the Ir…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Call them potters, ceramicists, or clay sculptors, but there are getting to be more of them, amateur and professional - and their work is fetching higher prices. Reporter Amy Fleming looks a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]"The reaction to Matilda represents, in microcosm, many of the contradictions of contemporary Russian culture. It should have been a flagship Russian movie, ... [and] originally had Oscar am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]"Both the creators of the ballet and its performers have been nominated for the Benois de la Danse, nicknamed the ballet's Oscars, in four professional categories: Ilya Demutskiy for Best Co…
SOURCE: tass.com at 08:33AM[SHARE]"Five years ago, Haifaa al-Mansour made history with her moving and critically-acclaimed drama Wadjda, making her not just the first female Saudi filmmaker, but the first director to have sh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:33AM[SHARE]The director of Moscow's acclaimed Gogol Center theater, Serebrennikov has been under house arrest since last August, awaiting trial on embezzlement charges that his allies call absurd and t…
SOURCE: www.rferl.org at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
A fond look at the life and career of the mathematician-turned-satirical-songwriter-turned-mathematician of whom The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Lehrer's muse [is] not fettered by such inhibi…
SOURCE: www.nature.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]One of the reasons the 17-movement work is so rarely performed, despite Zappa's celebrity, is the fiendishly tricky rhythm in some spots. (You know how triplets are three-notes-in-two? One s…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]"Stories have been circulating for nearly 400 years about the apparently strange compulsion that led otherwise sensible merchants, nobles and artisan weavers to spend all they had and more o…
SOURCE: www.historytoday.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Matt Zoller Seitz: "Shonda Rhimes's Scandal, which ends its seven-season run Thursday night, is a rare revolutionary TV drama that never became full of itself. It dealt in controversy on the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:54AM[SHARE]"A 2017 European Parliament report floated the idea of granting special legal status, or 'electronic personalities,' to smart robots, specifically those which (or should that be who?) can le…
SOURCE: slate.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]"'Justin,' yelled the ballet master Patrice Hemsworth. 'Move your arms. Good, good, good. Boys, you look beautiful. Go girls. Use your shoulders.' She watched silently for another few beats …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AM[SHARE]"The new initiative - [called the National Alliance for Audition Support and] created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony and the League of American Orchestras - will train mu…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM[SHARE]Billionaire Steve Cohen is donating Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary to New York's Museum of Modern Art. "The canvas stirred controversy at the Brooklyn Museum during the 1999 'Sensation' …
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:48AM[SHARE]Ousted editor James Marcus says that his dispute with publisher Rick MacArthur was over Katie Roiphe's "The Other Whisper Network: How Twitter feminism is bad for women," the magazine's Marc…
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