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• Turns Out First-Time TV Directors Are, By The Numbers, Almost All White Guys

  11-01-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even as shows such as ‘Black-ish,’ ‘Empire’ and ‘Cristela’ broaden the diversity of characters and stories on television, the opportunities for first-time female and minority directors on TV remain limited.”
  
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• Anita Ekberg, Who Waded Into The Trevi Fountain In ‘La Dolce Vita,’ Dies At 83

  11-01-2015 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The voluptuous young starlet’s career didn’t start taking off until after she replaced Marilyn Monroe on a Bob Hope Christmastime visit to Greenland to entertain GIs at an Air Force base in 1954 — Hope’s first show filmed for airing on television.”
  
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• Writers Don’t Get Respect On Movies And Thus Prefer TV, Says Writer

  11-01-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although I understand why they treat writers so badly, it’s not in their interests to do so. They will get poorer work from their writers. Create an atmosphere of trust and [writers] will take risks and write better for you. Create an atmosphere of fear and neglect and they won’t.”
  
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• Universities Own A Lot Of Art, And Students Need To Know More About It

  11-01-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Columbia, “the collection was established in the 1750s, when King George II donated silver to what was then called King’s College. Alumni, faculty and other benefactors have added to the troves, but there have been no major campaigns to solicit, research and repair art.”
  
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• This Whole ‘Overlooked Female Artist’ Trope Is Getting Annoying, And It Has To Change

  11-01-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The rhetoric surrounding these ‘rediscovered’ artists excludes too much about the specifics of their lives and the sociopolitical contexts that have perpetuated their exclusion — not simply from notoriety, but also from market success and a place in art education. Instead of acknowledging these forces, we often say women artists were too unorthodox for their […]
  
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• This Is How Theatre Becomes Essential For Local Communities

  11-01-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First, the theatre-makers must ensure they reflect those communities. Second, they need to be trained to work alongside the communities, to channel their lived experience into art, with skill and authenticity and often for community members themselves to perform. And third, the whole theatre industry needs to be open to members of different communities becoming […]
  
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• Novelist Robert Stone Was Inspired By War Abroad And At Home

  11-01-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The novelist died at 77 on Saturday. “‘It’s literally true that the world is seen by the superpowers as a grid of specific targets,’ he told The Paris Review in 1985.’“We’re all on military maps. There happens to be no action in those zones at present, but they’re there. And then there are the wars […]
  
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• The Ballerina Who Started Her Life As A War Orphan [VIDEO]

  11-01-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michaela DePrince saw an image of a ballerina in a glossy magazine in the orphanage. “I didn’t know what she was, but I thought that this beautiful creature was something I’d never seen before. She looked happy, and I wanted to be happy.”
  
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• What’s Next For Thrice-Detained Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera?

  11-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For me, this is ‘Arte de Conducta’ — Behavior Art — and it’s a piece that is decided not by the artist but by a political condition. It was like a test to see how ready everyone was to create a new behavioral dynamic. Right now, people have an on/off button that they turn on […]
  
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• Composers Have To Write Political Music And Opera To Meet The Challenges Of Today’s World

  11-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We as musicians have a responsibility to respond to the world around us, to give the people a song to raise their spirits and fuel the fight in their hearts. So, in light of the political climate we live in — for Eric Garner, for Mike Brown, for Palestine — I pick up my pencil […]
  
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• The Vast Reach Of The Courtroom Sketch Artist

  11-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Shafer Edwards uses alcohol-based markers to sketch out courtroom scenes on a 9″ by 12″ pad of paper. She doesn’t use pencils to outline and she never erases. ‘I love the stress. I love the immediacy, the spontaneity,’ she says. ‘There is a buzz. There is this electricity that goes on.'”
  
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• Kickstarter Crowdfunded A Ton Of Publishing Ideas In 2014

  11-01-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comics publishing, journalism, and regular publishing were separate categories last year – and the total raised for those projects was almost $34 million.
  
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• Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb Reacts To The Charlie Hebdo Massacre By Drawing Cartoons Of The Prophet Mohammed’s Ass

  11-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was tasteless, that’s what they say. And perhaps it was. I’m not going to make a career out of baiting some fucking religious fanatics, you know, by insulting their prophet. I wouldn’t do that. That seems crazy. But then, after they got killed, I just had to draw that cartoon.”
  
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• The Golden Globes Are Mostly Meaningless, But Watch A Few Special Races

  11-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and the film academy have envy issues. The HFPA craves respect. The academy wishes the Oscars, bound by its rigid format, could be as fun as the Globes. So the jealousy spiral continues, with the academy jostling its dates to mess with the Globes and the HFPA retaliating by hiring […]
  
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• You Are A Remarkable Musical Expert, Even If You Don’t Know It Yet

  11-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The difference between a virtuoso performer and an ordinary music fan is much smaller than the gulf between that fan and someone with no musical knowledge at all. What’s more, a lot of the most interesting and substantial elements of musicality are things that we (nearly) all share.”
  
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• Fig.2 at the ICA Studio: 'The Juicers' is an underwhelming start to an exciting project

  11-01-2015 17:10
  
  I recently spent a night wandering, jet-lagged, around the strip-lit tourist malls of Cancún’s Hotel Zone. Alongside the Hooters and the Wet’n Wild, the shopping in this purgatorial Spring Break resort is surreal: aisles and aisles of shot glasses shaped like cacti, figurines of glamorous skeletons smoking cigarettes, idolatrous portraits of Frida Kahlo, whose image circulates there like that of a national saint.
  
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• The Woman Whose Galleries Basically Created The Los Angeles Art World

  11-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Right from the start, Butler was dedicated to showing work that explored new directions, that was in opposition to trends of the time, work that she felt passionately about regardless of its financial viability.”
  
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• Why Did The British Suppress A Documentary About Concentration Camps After The 1945 Liberation?

  11-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The British thought the Germans needed to be nurtured as allies against the growing power of the Soviet Union. But were such compunctions realistic? Would showing the film to postwar Germany have been a propaganda reverse for the British, serving to alienate the Germans and tip the emerging cold war in the Soviets’ favour?”
  
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• Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, review: Stirring sounds with a social conscience

  11-01-2015 16:29
  
  The brightly coloured tracksuits are gone, replaced by sober suits and ties, and they’ve traded in their Youth Orchestra title for the more mature Symphony Orchestra, but close your eyes and there’s no mistaking the energy, urgency or identity of the musicians of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Orchestra.
  
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• Life As A Character Actor, By A Character Actor Who Just Died Too Early

  11-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taylor Negron: “My heyday is coming to an end. Parts for the alternative everyman are increasingly scarce. I have had to let go of my dream of being in a Hobbit movie. This will never happen unless Bilbo Baggins orders a pizza and we all know that when a hobbit orders a pizza in Middle […]
  
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• The daring art of Marlene Dumas: duct-tape, pot bellies and Bin Laden

  11-01-2015 01:01
  
  Her work has held the record for being the most expensive by a living female artist. So why have so few outside the art world heard of painter Marlene Dumas? On the eve of a major retrospective in London, she talks about sexism and self-doubtBold, graphic and disturbing: the art of Marlene Dumas – in picturesSeven years ago, Marlene Dumas briefly became the world’s most expensive living female artist, a dizzying upward move that was reported, somewhat breathlessly, in newspapers from New Yor
  
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• Bold, graphic and disturbing: the art of Marlene Dumas – in pictures

  11-01-2015 01:01
  
  From a bloody-handed child to a closeup of Amy Winehouse looking blue, explore the haunting works of painter Marlene DumasMarlene Dumas interview: ‘Every time, I think: I don’t know if I know how to make a painting’ Continue reading...
  
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• Photographer Peter Untermaierhofer finds beauty among the rubble of deserted buildings

  11-01-2015 01:00
  
  The buildings he alights on might be abandoned, but Peter Untermaierhofer claims there is much beauty to be found among the rubble.
  
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