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• Howard University’s Dance Program Has Changed The Face Of U.S. Ballet

  05-04-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Copeland and Mack, both African American, will go where no dancers of color have gone before. They will become the first African Americans to dance the leading roles of Odette/Odile and Prince Siegfried respectively in what remains our whitest performing art: classical ballet.”
  
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• No, Norton Simon, You Can’t Avoid Dealing With The Issue Of Looted Art

  05-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The California Supreme Court “chastened the museum in its ruling, stating ‘that there is nothing unfair about affording plaintiff an opportunity to pursue the merits of her claims against Norton Simon… Museums are sophisticated entities that are well-equipped to trace the provenance of the fine art that they purchase.'”
  
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• What Playwrights Can Do To Make Theatre More Welcoming To Women

  05-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It isn’t just a numbers game, and it isn’t just down to playwrights, but I hope that if we keep making conscious choices about the characters we write, then we won’t just change theatre but maybe also the world.”
  
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• The Woman Who’s Changing The Face Of Comedy

  05-04-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By the time Jones finishes reading a script, she already has ideas about which actors might be right for the roles—and who can handle the pressure of constantly improvising during the eighty-hour workweek that shooting a television comedy often requires. But she also likes the surprise of the unknown.”
  
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• A Right-Wing Backlash Floods The Hugo Awards

  05-04-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This new slate can only really be understood against the backdrop of ongoing, vicious fights over racism in science fiction.”
  
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• Why Did Maria Altmann Fight For ‘The Woman In Gold’?

  05-04-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If they would have once come and said, ‘We know these paintings are not ours, but, look, they are national treasures for us. Can you sit down and negotiate?’ Not once did they even attempt it or answer a letter of mine. … They feel they got away with and they (feel they) will get […]
  
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• The Renovation Of The National Theatre Gets It Right

  05-04-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They have kept control of the design of the new zones of quaffing and scoffing rather than let the in-house fit-outs of catering chains run riot, as has happened elsewhere on the South Bank. With the help of extensive scholarship on the subject of 1970s board-marked concrete, they have cleaned and repaired it. It looks […]
  
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• Should Dance Die With Its Creator? Twyla Tharp Doesn’t Think So

  05-04-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem of dance reconstruction — of legacy, essentially — is one that keeps Ms. Tharp up at night. Her archiving system, which she will reveal in her presentation with ‘The Fugue,’ rejects the familiar notion that dance is solely an ephemeral art.”
  
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• What You’re Listening To Influences How Your Wine Tastes, For Real

  05-04-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When lively music was playing, the group overwhelmingly found the wine to be lively, and when powerful music was playing, the wine seemed powerful as well. When the music was mellow and soft, the participants found the same qualities in their glasses.”
  
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• The Most Popular Artist In The World, 2014 Edition, Goes Against The Odds

  05-04-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Male artists represented by the world’s major art dealers were over seven times more likely to be given a solo exhibition than female artists signed to the same top gallerists, including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner. Against this background, [Yayoi] Kusama’s success in 2014 looks even more remarkable.”
  
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• BuzzFeed – Yes, BuzzFeed – Is Launching Writers’ Fellowships And A Literary Magazine

  05-04-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poet Saeed Jones: “The fellowship is just the beginning of what I really like to think of as a kind of literary movement coming to BuzzFeed. In addition to the fellowship program, I’ll be launching a literary magazine — about a year from now — as well as a reading and salon series. We’ll also […]
  
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• Too Soon? A 9/11 Opera Opens In London

  05-04-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’re not following the details as if for a film or a documentary. It’s more the ripples that this terrible event has on peoples’ lives. Music is a fantastic vehicle for expressing energy, emotion, feelings that go beyond language.”
  
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• European Museums, In The Midst Of Austerity Crises, May Start Selling Off Their Treasures

  05-04-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some French lawmakers, for example, are raising the prospect of selling some of the 500,000 objects in storage at the Louvre, using an American model that would limit museums to shedding duplicate works that are not part of a core collection and using the proceeds to pay for future acquisitions.”
  
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• So How Was Jesus About Women, Really?

  05-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The actor playing Mary Magdalene in A.D.: “I think Jesus was really advanced in his views on women… he chose to present himself to a woman and I think that was an acknowledgement that women can be and are as fully human as men; as fully and spiritually capable. It’s a huge honour to play […]
  
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• Looking at your mobile? You’re cutting off a world of creativity – and flirtation | Philip Hensher

  05-04-2015 16:46
  
  I agree with Simon Schama: looking upwards and outwards is the source of all art, thought and literature – and enables intimate encountersIt’s a scene so commonplace that it’s hardly worth specifying the details. But it was on Wednesday night, in a restaurant in Mousehole in Cornwall. Next to us was a family of four, with two adult children. The daughter, in her mid-20s, was gazing down beneath the table at her lap, glowing blue, periodically stabbing at it. The view, the food, the waitres
  
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• Remembering A ‘Punk-Rock Surfer Girl’ Writer Who Toured With Lollapalooza

  05-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michele Serros “believed her stories deserved to be told — little everyday stories about one life, hers. But she also believed everyone else’s story deserved to be told, too. It is a notion that still feels audacious, radical, maybe even revolutionary.”
  
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• Is London’s Garden Bridge Going To Be Scuttled By Backlash?

  05-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Details of how the bridge will operate indicate limits on group sizes, suggesting a ticketing system may be required. The bridge will also be closed once a month for corporate events, and between midnight and 6am. Plans no longer includes provision for cyclists.”
  
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• The Ballet Company Founded By A Marine To Keep Stories Of Veterans And Their Families In Focus

  05-04-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I had dreams in boot camp of doing pirouettes down the squad bay where we were sleeping. During the monotony of standing at attention, or patrolling villages, delivering aid, I would keep myself occupied by going through choreography in my head.”
  
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• Young Black Actor Wants To See More Black Actors In Lead Roles In Britain

  05-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘If it’s a character with flaws, great, but not just negative stigma all the time. We need to change things here,’ she said, voicing frustration at the number of black actors who leave Britain to work in Hollywood.”
  
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• If It’s Not OK To Cast A White Character In Blackface, Why Should Broadway Cast A Non-Austistic Kid To Play A Kid With Autism?

  05-04-2015 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In both cases there are life experiences that make an actually autistic and an actually black actor better suited to playing the role in question. More than that, though, there is the simple issue of credibility.”
  
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• Why Did Amazon’s New ‘Dash’ Button Cause So Much Reflexive Horror?

  05-04-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As propaganda, the video seems more like a condemnation of consumption than a celebration of it. All that stuff, the same stuff, used and discarded day after day. It’s the kind of montage that a movie director would use to show just how sad and soulless a character’s life was.”
  
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• Whitney's curators explore wide open spaces of new downtown home

  05-04-2015 11:07
  
  Architect Renzo Piano's building, which opens next month, provides the opportunity to show the collection's breadth at long last
  
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• Curators choose their favourite pieces in the Whitney's inaugural exhibition in its new space

  05-04-2015 11:07
  
  Debut exhibition provides an unprecedented overview of the museum's collection of American art
  
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• Untitled(There was sky falling down on the roof, somewhere a tree).

  05-04-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All Y ever did was send me books he had published in the academic world. Not once did he think to send me a book I might be interested in reading. At twenty the only thing I still had from Y was the train set he had given me as a five year old child. ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(There was sky falling down on the roof, somewhere a tree). appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Ravilious review – exhilarating, enthralling and outstandingly beautiful

  05-04-2015 08:00
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  The familiar genius of English graphic art, Eric Ravilious is revealed as far more complex and mysterious in this unmissable show of more than 80 of his watercoloursRavilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery is exhilarating, enthralling and outstandingly beautiful. It is also a revelation. This is the first major exhibition since his death in 1942 to concentrate entirely on Ravilious as a painter rather than a printmaker, and through more than 80 watercolours one sees h
  
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• National Theatre makeover: big round of applause for Haworth Tompkins

  05-04-2015 08:00
  
  After eight years, £80m and extensive research on 1970s concrete, Denys Lasdun’s venerable modern monument is looking better than everThere is a view of architecture, not much heard now, that it is like symphonic music, a sculpture, or a poem. It is a hard-won composition of parts and whole, with harmonies, contrasts and resolutions. It is ideally taut and considered, such that every detail contributes, and nothing can be added or taken away without changing the totality. With buildings, ther
  
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• Photographer Ricardo Cases captures Spain's pigeon breeders and their feathered friends

  05-04-2015 01:00
  
  Along the east coast of Spain, small but dedicated groups of men can be found taking part in pigeon-racing; dating back to the late-18th century, colombicultura remains a popular rural pastime. And before the races begin, the breeders paint their birds in bright colours, so they are identifiable throughout the race.
  
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