Thursday, April 5, 2018
Salman Khan, who has made more than 100 movies and is known as both a romantic hero and an action star, has been convicted for illegally killing two rare blackbuck antelopes during while on …
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
"In Auxerre Cathedral in northern France, and most likely in cathedrals in Sens and Amiens (and perhaps Chartres, as well), clergy gathered around the labyrinth [patterned into the floor of …
SOURCE: www.atlasobscura.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]"The Elgin Symphony Orchestra's season finale concerts were saved by 'an outpouring of support' from the community, which donated more than $140,000 since a public plea 10 days ago, orchestr…
SOURCE: www.dailyherald.com at 01:01PM[SHARE]"As Stanley Kubrick's monolithic movie celebrates its half century, special effects gurus, directors and those who worked on the film consider its legacy."
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tim Parks: "Every few days, working on my new novel, my thoughts flash back to something Colm TóibÃn said at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival nine months ago: that flashbacks are infur…
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 11:03AM[SHARE]"The obvious question to bring up here is: Are we complicit? 'We' meaning you and me but also, in that awful think-piecey way, standing in for the culture. Sure. I suppose we are complicit. …
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 10:35AM[SHARE]"The 250-year history of circus would have been very different if a man from Newcastle-under-Lyme had got on better with his father, and been happy to become an apprentice cabinet maker. ...…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Twitter illustrated the enduring obsession with the latter last week when the 'We need a Disney princess who' meme - which ranged from earnest ('We need a Disney princess who's vegan and fi…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:17AM[SHARE]Reporter James Barron follows Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European paintings department, up into the rafters and onto the roof to see why the skylights need replacing, why …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AM[SHARE]"The very day [in 2013] that Sophie Makariou took over as the director of Paris's Musée Guimet, she met a young Indian doctor on a train. 'I would love to see some Indian art while I am her…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]"Depending on the institution, curators will go back-and-forth with artists, colleagues, advisers and, more frequently now, marketing and public relations staff. The case of [the abandoned t…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Clare Croft, a dance dramaturg and assistant professor of dance at University of Michigan, answers all our questions on what dramaturgs actually do, and how to best take advantage of one."
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 07:44AM[SHARE]"During the 1990s, Mr. Nabay took the speedy beat of music that had been heard for centuries in parades and celebrations and transferred it to Western instruments. His songs became hits as c…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
"Mainly, this is because I'm afraid of excesses - mine and others'. Sometimes people make fun of me. They say: 'You want a world without outbursts of joy, suffering, anger, hatred?' Yes, I w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]"In the 1960s, [Saul] Chandler was one of the most promising classical violin prodigies in New York. ... But when Mr. Chandler turned 16, the pressures of producing excellence consumed him, …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Said another way: Whose America did Oklahoma! depict?" (For one thing, the show is lily-white, and the state at the turn of the 20th century was decidedly not.) "And is the musical's vision…
SOURCE: theconversation.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]"There are violinists who talk about Strads, which are old, and Zygs, which are less old. The violinist Chad Hoopes, who used to play a Strad, now plays the other. The word 'newer' would hav…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Nina Li Coomes: "In the film, the country is a plot device that creates a vague sense of unfamiliarity to move the story forward and explain away bizarre narrative elements. ... [In other wo…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 10:05AM[SHARE]Emily Yoshida: "If I'm playing cultural-appropriation cop (a terrible job, please don't make me do it), I'd file it under benign. Maybe too benign! The exception is the film's use of Japanes…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation" - co-founded by rap mogul Russell Simmons - "has helped pay for art and dance classes for thousands of children and opened galleries giving young art…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AM[SHARE]"We are half of America. Don't we deserve a museum?", said Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who has written legislation to establish a women's history museum at the Smithsonian. (She cl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Merriam-Webster's ... original goal [was] to create and preserve a monolithic American culture. Noah Webster Jr., the dictionary's founding author, was one of the first American nationalist…
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 08:47AM[SHARE]The Louvre, as usual, had the highest attendance, although the National Museum of China is a very close second, with the Met a distant third. The two most popular shows - which comes first d…
SOURCE: theartnewspaper.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]"'Michael set a new standard for the viola,' [violinist Arnold] Steinhardt, [Tree's Guarneri colleague,] said. 'Now orchestras are not filled with failed violinists playing the viola, but wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The cave, which houses wall paintings dating back around 30,000 years, was discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hillaire. ... [The three] argued …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:01AM[SHARE]"It was all done in record time. In just 30 days, more than 120 people - led by 32-year-old Chilean visual artist Dasic Fernández - transformed one of the most congested and iconic street…
SOURCE: www.citylab.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Alyssa Rosenberg, considering Isle of Dogs: "At this point, there's a fairly clear consensus that white people shouldn't be cast as characters who are meant to be of other races, and that de…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:04PM[SHARE]"A strong case could be made for [Gerald] Murnane, who recently turned 79, as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of. ... Yet his work has been praised b…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM[SHARE]"We wanted ... to figure out how to use the whole space of the stage to create an image of an injured mind. After that initial impulse, we tried to take a personal story of loss and trauma a…
SOURCE: edmontonjournal.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Philadelphia Voices is the eighth in a series of "crowd-sourced symphonies" - symphonic scores incorporating sounds recorded on the streets and submitted by residents - Machover has done for…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]"Mr. Gaylord, a World War II Army paratrooper who received the Bronze Star Medal for valor during the Battle of the Bulge, said he intended his sculptures to 'confront visitors with the real…
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