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• The Western Love Song Was Invented In Africa And The Middle East

  08-02-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The qiyan, the singing female slaves of the Islamic world, invented the key elements of courtly love long before they were known in Europe. I have a whole shelf of books on troubadour love songs in front of me, and not one of them mentions these innovators.”
  
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• Artists Are Fleeing The Far Too Expensive London, Says Playwright

  08-02-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simon Stephens: “The amount of young directors, writers, actors I know who are moving to Cardiff, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester … I think London could become like Manhattan: a very beautiful, empty place.”
  
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• Angry Archaeologists Take Over The Louvre Lobby, Allow Hundreds Of People To Enter Without Paying

  08-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The protesters are demanding that preventative archaeology no longer be subject to the 2003 law. They chose the sunken Louvre lobby beneath I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid and the Cour Napoléon because it was the site of a major preventative archaeology project when the museum expanded in the 1980s.”
  
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• Websites Are Doomed

  08-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A bunch of publications will go out of business and a bunch of others will survive the transition and a few will become app content GIANTS with news teams filing to Facebook and their very own Vine stars and thriving Snapchat channels and a Viber bureau and embedded Yakkers and hundreds of people uploading videos […]
  
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• The Woman Who Runs The LA Phil

  08-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her key accomplishment has been to keep the Phil relevant — and prosperous — at a time when fewer people nationwide want to buy season tickets to the symphony, especially an on-demand young generation that prefers a la carte programming with a contemporary edge. Borda and Dudamel have kept the classics, but they have expanded […]
  
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• If You’re The Betting Type, You Might Want To Bet On ‘Birdman’ And Its Director At The Oscars

  08-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Alejandro G. Inarritu’s dramedy won the Directors Guild of America’s 67th DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures — aka the DGA Award — on Saturday night, which, on the heels of the film winning the top prizes of the Producers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, suggests that it will take […]
  
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• Marlene Dumas at the Tate Modern: Sex, social inequality and human spirit explored superbly

  08-02-2015 18:08
  
  I have been looking forward to the Marlene Dumas exhibition at the Tate Modern since it was announced. Recently, its programme has been one of dead male artists – Matisse, Munch and Malevich to name a few – great artists all; but finally a live woman painter. Dumas is an artist full of contradictions; her subjects swing between saints and sinners, lust and innocence, all very contemporary concerns. After I have walked through the show I am relieved to see that my expectations have been sa
  
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• When Dave Eggers And A Pakistani-American Playwright Decided To Create An HBO Series About A Muslim Cop

  08-02-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What would happen if, instead of a token, we had a plurality? And they had last names, diverse ethnic communities, personalities, lame jokes, intrusive mothers, annoying but loving families, significant others, hobbies that weren’t inherently criminal, an ability to converse without violent outbursts, and so forth?” (HBO was very clear that it didn’t want “the […]
  
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• You Can Enjoy The Art Just As Well (Or Better) Without Your Dangerous Selfie Stick

  08-02-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The museums making this audacious stand against our time say the sticks are dangerous to their works of art (imagine trying to take your picture next to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, swinging the stick a bit clumsily and tearing the sky a new comet), and they are surely right.”
  
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• The Internet Finds – And Then Loves – Tilda Swinton’s 2014 Speech At The Rothko Chapel

  08-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps the most radical suggestion we can make about ourselves is not that we are not different. Or even that we are. But that we are both.”
  
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• As Audience Participation In Live Theatre Ramps Up, Is The Trend Cool Or Terrifying?

  08-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To those who see aggressive audience participation as the cutting edge, even the future, of theatre—who talk about its emergence from video gaming and the digital revolution, etc.—it might be instructive to point out that audience participation is as old as English Pantomime.”
  
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• So, Who Won The Classical Grammys?

  08-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The curiosity of the evening was a Best Classical Compendium Grammy for late American eccentric composer and inventor Harry Partch. Accepting the award for his recording of Partch’s Plectra & Percussion Dances, producer John Schneider noted that his musicians had to learn the composer’s daunting 43-note scale as part of their preparation.”
  
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• In the rising tide of pop culture I am not waving but drowning | Homa Khaleeli

  08-02-2015 15:48
  
  It’s getting harder to keep up, but I’m determined not to retreat from the bigger conversation about what we think is important and whyShould The Imitation Game have won a Bafta? I don’t know. The question alone is enough to send me into a spiral of anxiety. Was Katie Price a worthy Celebrity Big Brother winner? Pass. And no, I don’t have an opinion on Madonna’s Snapchat-released tunes.The truth is, I haven’t seen or heard any of these things, just as I haven’t consumed most of las
  
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• Advice For A Boomer Who Can No Longer Tolerate Rock But Only Listens To Classical

  08-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Returning to ground well-tilled can be a fruitless endeavour, so the doctor offers no cure: you have no disease. Besides, you have already hit on the best medicine the world has to offer anyone, at any age: passion and enlightenment.”
  
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• She Sang Backing Vocals On ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ And Often Imitated A Theremin

  08-02-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the singer Anita Darian, getting to Carnegie Hall not only took practice, it also took a kazoo.”
  
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• Pacific Northwest Ballet Loses Super Bowl Bet And Dances To ‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston’

  08-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a video message to the Boston Ballet, Seahawks-clad dancers perform manèges to the Dropkick Murphys’ Celtic punk song (and take the chance to remind the Colorado Ballet that the Denver dancers never delivered on their bet after Seattle’s 2014 Super Bowl win).
  
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• Serial, The Longform Podcast, Wins One Of Its Subjects The Right To File An Appeal

  08-02-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘In Episode 10 of the podcast, I reported that this appeal was alive by a thread,’ [podcast host an and reporter] Koenig wrote. ‘Now, I’d say it’s more of a … well-made string, maybe. Like the nylon kind. Because it means that the Court of Special Appeals judges think the issues Adnan raised in his […]
  
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• Pandora Radio Squares Off Against BMI In (Potentially) Seismic Licensing Case

  08-02-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The larger debate over music royalties online has galvanized musicians, and the Justice Department is reviewing the regulatory agreements that govern BMI and Ascap, its rival.”
  
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• ‘Selma’ And David Oyelowo Win Big At The NAACP Image Awards

  08-02-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spike Lee “told press that the recent Oscar snubs show that up and coming filmmakers should not always look for validation.”
  
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• On my radar: Chantal Joffe’s cultural highlights

  08-02-2015 08:45
  
  The artist on Egon Schiele, the magic of New York, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the brilliance of Lena Dunham’s GirlsBorn in 1969 in St Albans, Vermont, Chantal Joffe moved to the UK at the age of 13 with her mother and brother, both also artists. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts and Glasgow School of Art, before graduating with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2006 she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston award from the Royal Academy of Arts. J
  
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• Marlene Dumas: The Image As Burden review – painterly and provocative

  08-02-2015 08:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Marlene Dumas’s sumptuous portraits from photographs – of unknown subjects and famous faces – prove questioning and, en masse, elusive in Tate Modern’s major retrospectiveMarlene Dumas at Tate Modern – in pictures
  There is a painting in this show of the man who murdered the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, shooting him repeatedly before slashing his throat. It is delicate and pale, materialising in beautiful veils. There is another of Osama bin Laden in the glowing s
  
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• Harper Lee Says She’s ‘Alive And Kicking And Happy As Hell’ About New Novel

  08-02-2015 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People who have seen Ms. Lee more recently say that she is physically frail but completely lucid.”
  
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• Peter Sellars: The Crisis At The English National Opera Emerges From A Wider Cultural Disaster In The Making

  08-02-2015 07:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let me just say really simply that cultural meltdown is the order of the day. There’s not one theatre or opera company that can sell out anything anymore. For one thing that’s because the middle class is being destroyed right in front of our eyes.”
  
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• Who Will Replace Alan Gilbert At The NY Phil?

  08-02-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Speculation is sure to fall immediately on Esa-Pekka Salonen, whose current contract with the Philharmonia ends, with ideal timing, in the 2016–17 season, and who will have a substantial presence with the Philharmonic in the 2015–16 season.”
  
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• Brian Williams To ‘Step Back From’ NBC Nightly News

  08-02-2015 06:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions,’ Mr. Williams said in the two-paragraph memo.”
  
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• Photographer Yoko Ishii's images show wild Sika deer roaming the streets in Nara, Japan

  08-02-2015 01:00
  
  Japan is in the midst of a deer epidemic. The animals are overrunning a number of its regions, causing havoc for farmers, and leading to local governments encouraging "population management".
  
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• Art installation based on science fiction film Starship Troopers goes on display at Leicester gallery

  08-02-2015 01:00
  
  Extraordinary art installations win prizes, as we know. But what about displaying them in galleries? Not as easy as hanging a picture. However, a performance artwork by a British Turner Prize nominee, inspired by the manic science fiction film Starship Troopers, has had a rare success in being acquired by a public collection.
  
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• Tatiana Shkondina: art that's good enough to eat – in pictures

  08-02-2015 00:00
  
  ‘I love food,’ says Moscow-based photographer and food stylist Tatiana Shkondina. ‘The flavours, the freshness, how it looks…’ Last autumn, inspired by Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, she began to recreate her favourite paintings using food. The series includes Dalí clocks made out of pancake batter, Malevich’s Black Square created with caviar and Hokusai’s Red Fuji made from rice, salmon and green tea. After they were photographed, the creations had to be thrown away, ‘because I use f
  
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