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• Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate And Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies At 87

  15-02-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In spare, realistic free verse, Mr. Levine explored the subjects that had animated his work for decades: his gritty Detroit childhood; the soul-numbing factory jobs he held as a youth; Spain, where he lived for some time as an adult; and the Spanish anarchists of the 1930s, a personal passion since he was a boy.”
  
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• The Hair Designer For ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ – And All Of The Human Hair And Silk That Went Into The Movie

  15-02-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The hairs are sewn individually into tiny holes — less than a half-millimeter in diameter — of what Hannon calls ‘the finest silk lace you can find.'”
  
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• A Brilliant, Progressive Woman Invented Monopoly – And Then A Man Stole The Idea And Sold It

  15-02-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Magie filed a legal claim for her Landlord’s Game in 1903, more than three decades before Parker Brothers began manufacturing Monopoly. She actually designed the game as a protest against the big monopolists of her time — people like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.”
  
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• In A Comedy Central World, Saturday Night Live Has Been Mostly Meh With Political Satire

  15-02-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s fair to say that ‘SNL’ producer Lorne Michaels’ approach to politics was nurtured by the Ford-Albert spirit of non-confrontation, and that it now looks about as outdated as they do.” Except for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, of course.
  
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• A Sneak Peek At The New Broad Museum In Los Angeles

  15-02-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Because of both the museum’s ambitious design and the problems that have dogged its construction, public curiosity about the Broad is exceptionally high.”
  
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• We Love Celebrity Gossip, Especially If It’s Negative, But … Why?

  15-02-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This negative celebrity gossip was also associated with extra activity in regions known to be involved in self-control, suggesting that the students were trying to conceal their guilty pleasure.”
  
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• Museums Ban Selfie Sticks

  15-02-2015 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks, tripods and monopods), yet another example of how controlling overcrowding has become part of the museum mission.”
  
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• Chasing The Elusive Inspiration Of Dead Writers’ Lives And Travels

  15-02-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What does this movement in travel writing bear for the genre as a whole? What can the graves of dead poets in Venice, a boat ride down the Amazon to the coast of Brazil, or a visit to the homes of D. H. Lawrence and George Eliot tell us about life, about living?”
  
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• What Living Architect Can Restore The Glory Of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School Of Art?

  15-02-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The news last May that the Glasgow School of Art was burning was, for many people who care about British architecture, as close to hearing that an actual human friend was in danger as any threat to inanimate building materials can be.”
  
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• As Marijuana Becomes More (And More) Legal, Television Is Embracing The Change

  15-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ten years ago, the pay channel Showtime broke ground with ‘Weeds,’ about a mom who builds a clandestine pot business. Now more shows are incorporating plots about the pot trade as it evolves in the real-world.”
  
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• The Composer Of The Opera ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Who Went To Prison For Pot Smuggling, Dies At 82

  15-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marvin David Levy “was at midcentury an American composer of seemingly limitless promise, compared by Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten.”
  
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• Matinees Are Just Better, Or At Least More Pleasant, Than Evening Shows

  15-02-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What’s not to like about a show in the early or late afternoon? Matinees are sometimes cheaper, frequently easier to secure a ticket for when a show is popular, and the transport options are often easier, too.”
  
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• What’s Missing From Teen Movies Of The New Millennium? Class

  15-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the ‘80s and ‘90s, movies and television shows explored storylines on the fray. They were really weird and strangely lit with cryptic-speaking characters and alternative universes — they weren’t beige and unoffensive.”
  
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• Are Equity Actors In Los Angeles Afraid To Support A Minimum Wage?

  15-02-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s difficult for them to get up and speak in front of people who may employ them if they feel they might not get employed if they speak the alternate view from what the producers feel. … They’re intimidated.”
  
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• Making A Living With Flamenco In Its Most Iconic City

  15-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Juan Ramírez’s days begin and end with flamenco – the iconic, traditional form of folk music from Andalusia in Spain that emphasises percussive guitar, powerful singing, fierce dancing and, above all, potent emotion.”
  
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• Doing Theatre Alone, In The Dark: A Solo Performer Explains Why, And How

  15-02-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Your incredibly important show about your Furby collection will be rubbish. Live a little before you ask us to pay money and/or attention.”
  
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• The Terrifying Neuroscience Of Love

  15-02-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though falling in love is associated with anxiety and stress, this state—in combination with the belief that there may be reciprocation—is also at times accompanied by intensely pleasant emotions. These emotions arise from an underlying brain chemistry that resembles those triggered by cocaine use.”
  
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• Is Capitalism Going To Kill Off Art?

  15-02-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The rise of art as investment commodity for the ultra-wealthy does seem to distort the process of art-making and -selling for everyone else. A painting was sold last week for $300-million (U.S.), probably to the feudal sheikdom of Qatar; meanwhile across the board, artists’ real incomes are declining. It is rather confusing.”
  
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• What The L.A. Phil’s Youth Orchestra Does For The City (And The Musicians)

  15-02-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “YOLA was modeled after El Sistema, the Venezuelan program that supports more than 100 orchestras and has taught hundreds of thousands of students. The Phil’s leaders launched the program in part to help persuade Dudamel to sign on as conductor. Eight years later, it has become central to the L.A. Phil’s community outreach efforts — […]
  
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• Jonathan Franzen Is The Book Internet’s Favorite Villain For A Reason

  15-02-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This idea Franzen posits that literature teaches us you’re not the ‘heroic figure you think of yourself as, that you might be the very dubious figure that other people think of you as’ is as deeply embedded in many big YA novels as it is in Munro stories. To say these books are simplistic is […]
  
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• These Engineers Made Us All Dream In (Techni-) Color

  15-02-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New makeup had to be created because the makeup used in black-and-white films looked artificial.”
  
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• When American Malls Were About To Die, This Architect Rescued Them And Made Them Fantasylands Of Joy

  15-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jon Jerde “constructed thrilling, multi-levelled worlds connected by spiral staircases and swooping ramps, supercharged urban stage sets that sampled styles from across time and place with promiscuous glee. His brand of ‘place making’ has become the ubiquitous strategy for retail-led urban regeneration around the world.”
  
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• IBT15 review – storms abound at the Bristol International festival

  15-02-2015 16:28
  
  Various venues, Bristol
  From fog-covered bridges to vogueing and Virginia Woolf, the winds of change were blowing around the cityStorms, in their many guises, have been the theme of Bristol’s International festival, a weekend of performances and installations. The festival’s presence is visible in the heart of the city with Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog Bridge (continuing until 22 February). At regular intervals, clouds envelop the pedestrian harbour crossing Pero’s Bridge as if a sudden fog has
  
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• Tower of London poppies artist received death threats

  15-02-2015 13:24
  
  Paul Cummins, whose installation symbolised first world war deaths, says threats came from people angry that armed services charities were benefiting from the artworkThe ceramic artist whose Tower of London poppy installation drew millions of visitors has revealed he received death threats believed to be from people angry that armed services charities were benefiting from the artwork.Paul Cummins, who with designer Tom Piper created Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red in the Tower’s moat, said p
  
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• Work in Helmut Newton photographs could be looted masterpiece

  15-02-2015 13:00
  
  German museum investigates whether work used as a prop is a missing painting by Arnold Böcklin
  
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• Tower of London poppy artist: Police investigate 'death threats' sent to Paul Cummins over military charities

  15-02-2015 11:35
  
  The Tower of London poppy exhibition became was one of the most poignant commemorations of the First World War attracting more than 4 million visitors. But its positive impact did not extend to everyone according to the artist behind the display who since received death threats.
  
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• Tower of London poppy artist death threats: Police investigate abuse sent to Paul Cummins over military charities

  15-02-2015 11:35
  
  The Tower of London poppy exhibition became was one of the most poignant commemorations of the First World War attracting more than 4 million visitors. But its positive impact did not extend to everyone according to the artist behind the display who since received death threats.
  
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• Police investigate death threats made to Tower of London poppy artists

  15-02-2015 11:35
  
  The Tower of London poppy exhibition became was one of the most poignant commemorations of the First World War attracting more than 4 million visitors. But its positive impact did not extend to everyone according to the artist behind the display who since received death threats.
  
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• On my radar: Faris Badwan’s cultural highlights

  15-02-2015 09:30
  
  The Horrors singer on the young brilliance of Raymond Radiguet, Jacob Blandy’s warped world, the Queen’s secret perfume and the fun of baiting online fraudstersFaris Badwan is lead singer of the Horrors and one half of pop duo Cat’s Eyes, alongside Canadian soprano and composer Rachel Zeffira. Badwan grew up in Warwickshire before moving to London to study illustration at Central Saint Martins. The Horrors have released four studio albums between 2007 and 2014, and Cat’s Eyes released th
  
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• History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain review – the ultimate Blue Peter time capsule

  15-02-2015 08:00
  
  Hayward Gallery, London
  From flak jackets to flotsam to Farrow & Ball, seven artists curate an inspired cultural history of postwar BritainIn 1981, using an Arts Council camera and 16mm film, Gilbert & George explored their idea of Britain. The hour-long home movie is one of many highlights of this inspired Hayward show. The film cuts between footage of their double act as living sculptures, deciding whether to “buy another vase”, to footage of flapping union jacks and marching sol
  
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• Associate/Senior Associate – Slover Linett Audience Research Inc.

  15-02-2015 02:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slover Linett Audience Research Inc. is a nationally recognized social research firm for arts, culture, and informal science organizations and the funders, service organizations, and public agencies that support them.
  
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• David Best: the man who builds art – and burns it

  15-02-2015 01:02
  
  American artist David Best is best known for his extraordinary, cathartic temples ritually sent up in flames as part of Nevada’s annual Burning Man festival. Now he has been persuaded to build a temple in Northern Ireland in honour of those who died in the Troubles… Below, Helen Marriage of Artichoke explains how the Derry project came aboutNorthern California is bracing itself for the biggest storm in years as I drive north from San Francisco to David Best’s house near Petaluma. The sky i
  
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• Johnnie Shand Kydd's photographs show Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, and Grayson Perry holidaying on Greek island of Hydra

  15-02-2015 01:00
  
  For the past 18 years, Johnnie Shand Kydd has photographed the art scene as they let their hair down on the Greek island of Hydra each summer.
  
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