Monday, April 16, 2018
"The Pulitzer board called Cost of Living 'an honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched in…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:54PM[SHARE]"The novel centers on a struggling San Francisco author - Arthur Less - who, nearing age 50, decides to tour the world to escape himself. 'The tragicomic business of being alive,' he says, '…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:54PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
"It's ironic, then, that Wayne LaPierre and the NRA's other spokespeople blame Hollywood's glorification of violence whenever there is a mass shooting. What they ignore is that nearly every …
SOURCE: www.1843magazine.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]"Thirteen black film companies were operating by the end of World War I, although most of them released only one film. ... Black producers and directors founded their own film companies out …
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 01:02PM[SHARE]"In the quest to create intelligent robots, designers tend to focus on purely rational, cognitive capacities. It's tempting to disregard emotion entirely, or include only as much as necessar…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Yes, the physical manifestations of music worship, structures so Romantic that they wouldn't be foreign to Richard Wagner. Though some argue that the etiquette for concert halls is outdated…
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]"I wouldn't know personally, but smoking weed sometimes gives people great bad ideas. In the case of four college freshmen in Kentucky, the idea was to steal upwards of $11 million dollars i…
SOURCE: www.mhpbooks.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]"With characters like 'Buggeranthos,' 'C__tigratia,' 'C__ticula,' 'Clytoris' and of course 'Fuckadillia,' the late seventeenth-century play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery would see…
SOURCE: daily.jstor.org at 10:05AM[SHARE]"The aptly named Unbound Festival runs at the War Memorial Opera House Friday April 20- May 6. The range of the choreographers is astounding to find all in one place, from Alonzo King, artis…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:34AM[SHARE]"On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday evening, I found myself facing a stranger, swinging my arms back and forth, and hooting like an owl. ... Ecstatic dances are essentially free-form dance…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Is Museum of Contemporary Art Director Philippe Vergne on his way out? That's the question swirling in the art-world air following his surprise firing of MOCA's chief curator one month ago,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:03AM[SHARE]He founded the choir, the Boston Symphony's resident ensemble, at the BSO's summer home in 1970 and directed it until he retired in 2015. In addition, "he led his own John Oliver Chorale and…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 08:47AM[SHARE]"The painting, titled Othello and Desdemona, belonged to retired jeweler and art collector Ernest 'Pick' Heller and his wife Rose 'Red' Heller, and was stolen from their New York apartment b…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Jennifer Higdon has been awarded the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition for 2018, given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement 'who have sign…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"For at least a dozen years, she was 'all-powerful, during a remarkably fertile time for stand-up comedy - the 1970s and early '80s - when many of today's comedy stars showed up in L.A. to g…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Following intensive protests against the decision to install Chris Dercon as director of Berlin's radical theater with a strong left-wing tradition, the former head of London's Tate Modern …
SOURCE: www.dw.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The Trout Breaks the Ice is based on the story of Mikhail Kuzmin, who disappeared into the official obscurity imposed by the Soviets on artists considered deviant or who were out of favour.…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
"Perhaps the oldest oral library in the world was formed over a span of tens of thousands of years in the arid lands of central Australia. There, the Arrernte people developed a complex syst…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]"The virtually nonexistent relations between the United States and Iran extend to their copyright relations. While many countries have agreed to international standards such as the Berne Con…
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 01:01PM[SHARE]Scott Cantrell: "So who are the leading candidates? Don't take my word as gospel, but, between personal observations and chats with musicians, I can hazard some guesses. At least on purely m…
SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News at 12:02PM[SHARE]"VARK, which stands for 'Visual, Auditory, Reading, and Kinesthetic,' sorts students into those who learn best visually, through aural or heard information, through reading, or through 'kine…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]"For the better part of a year, students, faculty, staff, librarians, museum professionals, artists, and many members of the public [in Austin] worked tirelessly to protest further removal o…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]"The choreographer, who turns 70 this year, will leave the London venue in November in order to concentrate on leading the Richard Alston Dance Company towards its 25th anniversary in 2020. …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Equity is proposing two awards, one for the best ensemble - which it defined as the entire cast - in a musical or play, and one for the best chorus - which it defined as a group that sings …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AM[SHARE]"In February, when the embattled Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, announced it had reached an agreement with the state's attorney general to sell as many as 40 works from its c…
SOURCE: www.artnews.com at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The author of eight volumes of poetry, Mr. McClatchy was considered one of the country's foremost men of letters. He was also a prolific editor, anthologist, translator and critic, as well …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AM[SHARE]"Reality set in when news broke that the damage to the Wortham Center turned out to be much worse than first anticipated. The artistic and administrative team found out that the floodwaters …
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The history and archaeology of Mongolia, most famously the sites associated with the largest land empire in the history of the world under Genghis Khan, are of global importance. But they'r…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"The iconic actress, comedian, writer and director" - now 85 - "will star in the first Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery, a poignant and timely drama about an eld…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]"She matured as an artist in the 1950s, in the heyday of 'experimental art'. Her disobedient aesthetic sense helped her to become one of the first British admirers of Jackson Pollock. With P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Sir Andrew Davis will step down from his role as Chief Conductor with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the end of his contract in December 2019, the Orchestra announced today. The Britis…
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