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• Classical Music Should Be A Short Click Away From Every Kid

  22-03-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Spotify and iTunes have plenty of classical music. Unfortunately, they hate it. (Or seem to.) Keeping the four movements of one symphony together can be a stiff challenge because the only unit of music these sites recognize is the ‘song.'”
  
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• If SpongeBob Can’t Save Paramount Pictures, What Will?

  22-03-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though the Star Trek, Transformers and Mission: Impossible franchises continue to post big numbers, they have not been enough to fill the pipeline and improve Paramount’s rankings.”
  
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• The Homeless, 86-Year-Old First-Time Author

  22-03-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘He thought he’d wasted his life,’ Carpenter says, ‘and he thought if only he could finish this book, and I could help him, then that would be his immortality.'”
  
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• Why Do Little Girls Think There’s Only One Plot?

  22-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The girls were terrific. Silly and shy, coy and rambunctious, attention-seeking, wise beyond their years, strikingly immature, they strutted about the room like little heroines in a post-modern novella. … Their monologues, however, were a disappointment. Not because they were poorly written or lacking in style or stingy with words, but because only one girl […]
  
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• A Shadow Ballet Between Human Dancers And Dancing Drones

  22-03-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s more than a cool gimmick. Instead of having drones on stage just for the sake of having them, the clip shows how the machines can be used in subtler, more expressive ways. Being able to choreograph the three independently-moving light sources around a performer presumably lets you create all sorts of visual effects you […]
  
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• Your Kid Can’t Actually Paint Like Pollock, But She Could Probably Make Apple Pie From His Recipe

  22-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The book includes over 50 recipes scribbled by Pollock, his wife, and his mother on loose paper. These were often circulated among close friends, because apparently Rothko and de Kooning couldn’t make lunch to save their life.”
  
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• Add Steppenwolf To The Growing List Of Theatres Benefitting From A Monk’s Winning Lottery Ticket

  22-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He has a very clear mandate. He wants to support large theater companies doing massive, out-of-the-ordinary artistic projects — the kinds of epics you might see at the National Theatre in London, which has extensive government support.”
  
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• Burning Man artist burns latest installation in Derry - video

  22-03-2015 18:01
  
  A 70-foot carved wooden tower, called Temple, is set alight in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Saturday. The project was the work of US artist David Best, and his aim was to offer an alternative perspective on bonfires. More than 60,000 people visited the structure in the week before it was set alight, leaving hundreds of personal messages of love and loss inside the temple Continue reading...
  
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• Student Musicians Are Using Virtual Reality To Prepare For The Concert Hall

  22-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The simulator “includes realistic backstage and on-stage areas, with authentic signage and lighting. An interactive life-size virtual audience projected on to a large screen features individuals who will sway slightly in their seats, close their eyes or fidget.”
  
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• When Burning Man Goes To Northern Ireland

  22-03-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than 60,000 people visited the structure in the week before it was set alight, leaving hundreds of personal messages of love and loss.”
  
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• Director Threatens Suit To Keep Film Cut By Others Out Of U.S. Movie Theatres

  22-03-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some people wear hoods and carry automatic weapons, others sit behind their desks, but the attack and attempted suppression of the rights of the individual are the same. I will defend the right of free speech ’til the end and I ask all who believe, as I do, that they not support the showing of […]
  
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• Los Angeles Actors Are Marching Against The Equity Plan For 99-Seat Theatres

  22-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some prominent AEA members plan to picket their union’s North Hollywood headquarters on Monday. With ballots for the controversial 99-seat plan referendum set to be mailed next week, both sides of the debate are gearing up for a battle that could shape the future of L.A.’s intimate theater scene.”
  
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• The World Of The 21st Century May Be More Like The World That Engendered WWI

  22-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the United States joins with India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam to balance China, the First World War era may offer more positive and negative guidance for the future than the era when the United States was more lopsidedly supreme.”
  
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• No Surprise: Women Purchased The Vast Majority Of Theatre Tickets Last Season

  22-03-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The average theatergoer is a 44-year-old woman who attends plays frequently, the report said. Not surprisingly, the report found that most people who go to Broadway plays are well-heeled.”
  
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• Swiss artist Hans Erni dies aged 106

  22-03-2015 16:18
  
  Artist whose work ranged from stamp designs for Switzerland and the UN to enormous frescoes died on Saturday, his daughter saysSwiss artist Hans Erni, whose prolific work ranged from tiny postage stamps to enormous frescoes, has died, his daughter has said. He was 106.Erni’s daughter, artist Simone Fornara-Erni, announced on her Facebook page that he passed away peacefully on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America at the Saatchi Gallery, review: Two continents that deserve better

  22-03-2015 15:35
  
  “The long-awaited ugly painting competition had finally arrived,” writes Sheila Heti in her 2013 novel How Should A Person Be? A group of artist friends compete against one another for fun to create the ugliest painting possible. One of the artists feels “shame and self-loathing” at this wilful departure from classical standards of beauty; another wants to wash off the “dirty” feeling. Heti writes: “Was the winner of an Ugly Painting Competition the person who made the uglier pa
  
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• Maaike Schoorel: Sub-Lo; Christian Rosa – review

  22-03-2015 08:00
  
  Maureen Paley; White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
  That you can’t quite see Maaike Schoorel’s paintings seems to be the point. But there’s no missing the antic joy of Christian RosaThe paintings look like nothing at all. That is the point. You see only a series of hazy grey rectangles on entering the gallery. They come in different sizes, billboard to paperback, and in various tones and hues from slate to mist to gun metal, platinum and ash. But still, the instantaneous effect is of many gr
  
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• New York Contemporary Ballet Company Founded By WalMart Heiress Closes Up Shop For Good

  22-03-2015 06:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet seemed like the dance company that had it all: a wealthy benefactor, generous contracts and benefits for its dancers, and a snazzy Chelsea home. But on Friday company officials announced that the troupe would shut down.”
  
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• Call for museums and galleries to appoint more women to top jobs

  22-03-2015 01:05
  
  After the National Gallery’s announcement last week of its 14th male director, some are asking why the glass ceiling is still in placeLeading women in the arts have called on museums and galleries to look at the way they hand out top jobs, as the guard changes at two great British institutions: the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. The recent choice of male directors for both has prompted fresh demands for fair representation.“All my working life, I have been speaking up ab
  
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• Photographer Ryann Ford's images of rest stops on America's highways reveal a bygone era

  22-03-2015 01:00
  
  In 1956, President Eisenhower introduced the Federal-Aid Highway Act, allocating billions of dollars to the construction of 41,000 miles of road across the United States.
  
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• How Leica transformed photography for ever: Celebrating 100 years of the famous camera

  22-03-2015 01:00
  
  It was the beginning of photography as we know it. A few months before the outbreak of the First World War, an engineer called Oskar Barnack, who had defected from the rival German optical company of Zeiss to head the experimental department at Leitz, put the finishing touches to a new invention. He called it the Micro Lilliput camera. "Micro Lilliput camera with cine film ready," he noted in his work log in March 1914. The following month he wrote, "Lilliput camera pat. Reg." – the idea wa
  
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