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• These Classical Buskers Are Performing In The Subway When Along Comes … [VIDEO]

  21-12-2014 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just when you hate, I mean truly hate, the New York City subway system, something like this has to go and happen.” (Wait for it.)
  
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• Keeping The Navajo Language Alive By Dubbing ‘Finding Nemo’

  21-12-2014 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The language is still spoken by more than half of the Navajo Nation — the largest tribe in the U.S. with more than 300,000 members — but is less popular among a critical segment of the population: children.”
  
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• Dystopian Fiction Is So Hot Because We Think Drastic Climate Change Is Inevitable

  21-12-2014 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It seems easier, more realistic, to dim the sun than to put up solar panels on every home in the United States,’ says Klein. ‘And that says a lot about us, and what we think is possible, and what we think is realistic.'”
  
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• Phoenix’s Actors Theatre Runs Out Of Money And, After 30 Years, Plans To Close

  21-12-2014 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Matthew Wiener, the theater’s producing artistic director, said the company has been dedicated to paying all of its staff a living wage, but with a small donor base and low ticket sales, the theater was not able to continue.”
  
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• Theater J Fires Its Artistic Director After Years Of Tension And A Rabbi’s Attempt To Mediate

  21-12-2014 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Thursday, Roth was fired by Zawatsky from the job he had held for 18 years, a tenure during which he built Theater J into one of the leading Jewish theaters in the country and one of the most important outposts for plays about Israel and its neighbors.”
  
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• The Author Of ‘Unbroken’ Has Revolutionized Nonfiction Writing – Without Leaving Her House

  21-12-2014 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps the biggest challenge for Hillenbrand as a reporter are the periods when she cannot read. When the vertigo surges, as it has in recent years, she has trouble focusing her eyes on the page without dizziness.”
  
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• The Hacked Sony Emails Are Picking Apart The Tangled Web Of Hollywood

  21-12-2014 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Another set of broken or bruised relationships involves black stars and filmmakers, a group with whom Sony formerly had very sturdy ties.”
  
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• Paris Has Hated Every Monument That Now Defines It To The World. Is This Any Different?

  21-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Plans for a skyscraper, known as the Triangle Tower, have divided Parisians and prompted a wave of protests that the city’s cherished skyline is about to be violated.”
  
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• The World’s Leading Manuscript Dealer May Be Running A Pyramid Scheme

  21-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Around 100 officers from France’s anti-fraud squad raided the headquarters of his company, Aristophil, along with offices in Luxembourg, Brussels and Nice. The police seized all the money in the company’s accounts, forcing it to shut down.”
  
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• Is This The End Of Piano Playing In The UK?

  21-12-2014 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She blames the popularity of electric keyboards and children starting to learn the piano at a later age in the UK than in other parts of the world.”
  
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• Can A Computer Create A Work Of Art? If So, It Might Pass The Lovelace Test

  21-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First, they ask for a creative artifact such as a story, poem, or picture. And secondly, they provide a criterion. For example: ‘Tell me a story about a cat that saves the day,’ or ‘Draw me a picture of a man holding a penguin.'”
  
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• So Much Criticism For Marco Polo May Harm Diversity On Netflix

  21-12-2014 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Recall that Marco Polo’s cast is more than 90 percent Asian; how many other big-budget Western shows can say that?”
  
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• The Intricate Dance Of Machine And Human In The Marble Quarry [VIDEO]

  21-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the Apuan Alps of northern Tuscany in Italy, ‘Il Capo’ or the chief directs the processes of extraction at a quarry for Carrara marble.”
  
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• Will Renewed U.S.-Cuba Ties Mean More Musical Collaborations And Cross-Pollination?

  21-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The last time musicians from Cuba and the U.S. could easily move between the two countries, it led to some of the most innovative music of 20th century. The stage is set for a similar renaissance in the 21st.”
  
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• The Art Of Making A (Perfect) Tutu

  21-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bacon only takes on a handful of commissions per season—this year, she has five in the works. They’ll keep her busy until competition time rolls around early in 2015.”
  
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• Urbanism Means More Than Bars And A Few Walkable Streets

  21-12-2014 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As our city planners consider the ways in which downtown is developed, it’s worth remembering that a healthy urban ecosystem isn’t made out of any one kind of person or business or building.”
  
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• Spin Doctor Who Worked In George Bush’s White House And Inspired ‘Scandal’ Is Called In To Manage Sony’s Issues

  21-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Insiders said Sony appeared to be shifting its position while giving as strong an impression as possible that it had adopted the same line all along.”
  
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• The Worst Cultural Criticism Of 2014

  21-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For every yin, there’s a yang, and in this case, the yang involves snobbery, asinine arguments about everything from marriage to Brooklyn DIY, another page for the ‘Gavin McInnes is the worst’ annual, and the ongoing misogynist temper tantrum of #Gamergate.”
  
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• Jockum Nordström: For the insects and the hounds; Peder Balke – review

  21-12-2014 09:00
  
  David Zwirner; National Gallery, London
  Sweden’s Jockum Nordström unsettles with work that seems to tap into childhood. And prepare to be surprised by the long-forgotten art of Peder BalkeThe scene: the hall of a wood-floored house, somewhere in the past, with overtones of Strindberg or Ibsen. A handkerchief dangles wet and heavy from the edge of a table as if someone had drenched it with tears. The pictures on the walls are all blank, there is no obvious source of light and the empty mirro
  
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• A Friendly Reminder About Gallery Hours During the Holidays

  21-12-2014 00:28 via artnews.com
  Just a little reminder that, because Christmas is next week, many galleries will be closing for a few days. Some are taking off December 24 and 25, while others are opting for nice, long breaks, through January 1 or longer. … Read More
  
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• Paintbrush portraits by Rebecca Szeto – in pictures

  21-12-2014 00:00
  
  Since 1999, San Francisco artist Rebecca Szeto has been working on Paintbrush Portraits, an ongoing series of figures created from old brushes. When she started she was working as a faux finisher, making new buildings and furniture look more ‘old world’. She started to collect paintbrushes to stop them being thrown away. ‘I’d amassed a lot of eco-guilt from the sheer number of materials I witnessed being thrown out,’ she says. And then inspiration struck: ‘I happened to see a ratty b
  
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