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• Discovered – lost grave of pre-Raphaelite beauty who modelled for Rossetti

  13-04-2015 21:01
  
  Hospital records reveal story of sad final years of Fanny Cornforth, who was also painter’s mistress and housekeeper The grave and the sad last years of Fanny Cornforth, the dazzling model and mistress of the pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, have finally been discovered. Her lovely face and mass of red hair were immortalised in scores of his paintings - but she ended suffering from dementia and penniless in the Sussex county asylum, and was buried in a common grave in 1909.A blue
  
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• Sonia Delaunay review – the woman who made colour dance gets a knockout show

  13-04-2015 20:31
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Painter, designer, tireless tango-dancer and coat-maker to the stars, Sonia Delaunay tore through the worlds of art and fashion like a whirlwindFrom the early 20th century until her death in 1979, Sonia Delaunay painted, designed fabrics and clothing, ran shops as well as a textile design company, and collaborated with poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars and Tristan Tzara. She played gender games, was a polyglot, danced the tango, translated Kandinsky, and was a thor
  
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• Ivan Doig, A Writer Who Cared About Getting Every Word Right

  13-04-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Doig, who died in Seattle on April 9 at age 75: “I don’t think of myself as a ‘Western’ writer. … To me, language — the substance on the page, that poetry under the prose — is the ultimate ‘region,’ the true home, for a writer.”
  
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• Unschooling, Or Something Like It, Makes A Return To U.S. High Schools

  13-04-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now, teachers function more as coaches than lecturers and the students are active collaborators. Initially limited to the high school, the framework is now being phased in at the middle school, too. And while the extended-learning program, now five years old, predates the student-centered initiative, officials say it has been key to the turnaround.”
  
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• Women Are (Once Again?) Taking On, Or Taking Over, The Fantasy Genre

  13-04-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While science-fiction and fantasy fans have always enjoyed female authors such as Ursula Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones and Ellen Kushner, Crisp believes the current swell in women writers is being led by a generation raised on Harry Potter and young adult fantasy fiction.”
  
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• How Judith Malina Revolutionized The Theatre World

  13-04-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her all-encompassing radicalism, which never lost its bite, has inspired new generations of progressive theater makers struggling to find alternatives in a society that has grown only more thoroughly commercialized.”
  
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• Günter Grass Dead At 87

  13-04-2015 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With his novels, plays, articles and speeches, Mr. Grass became one of Germany’s foremost intellectuals and gadflies. The themes that consumed his literature – guilt, atonement and hypocrisy – were also central to his political commentary. He could be shrill and polarizing, a self-professed ‘troublemaker’ who cultivated what he described as a ‘tendency to bring […]
  
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• Now They’re Remaking Books As Game Apps

  13-04-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Play on your tablet or phone as Sherlock, as the White Rabbit, as Mr. Crab in a fable from Nigeria – and experience books or folk tales in a new way. Or at least, that’s the hope.
  
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• The Asshole Theory Of Technological Advancement (And The Apple Watch)

  13-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the closest thing we have to a law of portable gadgetry: the more annoying it is to the people around you, the ‘better’ the concept. The more that using it makes you seem like an asshole to people who aren’t using it, the brighter its commercial prospects.”
  
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• Can Computers Discover The Next Big Thing(s) In Music?

  13-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Instead of trawling the back rooms of the country’s pubs for the next Ed Sheeran, what if ‘moneyball’ – the analytical, statistics-based approach successfully used to assemble a competitive sports team – could be adapted to pop music?”
  
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• One Way To Get To The Royal Ballet

  13-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dancers in the new show’s four categories – ballet, contemporary, hip-hop and southern Asian – are hoping for similar acclaim.”
  
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• The Forensic Photographer’s Tools And Trade

  13-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although the ubiquity and increasing simplicity of digital cameras means that fewer forensic photographers are employed by the police, Marsh still views his expertise as crucial and irreplaceable.”
  
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• Making Rape Jokes That Are Actually Funny (Well, Maybe)

  13-04-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The punch lines of [Adrienne Truscott’s] jokes are never the victims themselves. Instead she is aiming at the targets like the onstage antics of Mr. Tosh and the sexual assault accusations leveled against Bill Cosby, as well as politicians like Todd Akin, who made an infamous comment about ‘legitimate rape.'”
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Five: Goodbye to All That

  13-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  For two years after I opened Rental Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown, I never left my two-block kingdom in the neighborhood because I didn’t have to. Back then, in the mid-aughts, everyone wanted to be in Chinatown. The farthest east I … Read More
  
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• The Most Honest Show About Addiction Ever On TV Is A Comedy, And About To End

  13-04-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Edie Falco, who plays Nurse Jackie: “The story of addiction is that they are often highly lovable individuals — charismatic, charming, and easy to love. … They systematically go about destroying all those feelings of attachment to the people around them.”
  
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• How to hold an art exhibition in your home

  13-04-2015 15:00
  
  Open house festivals are an increasingly popular way of showing work by emerging and amateur artists – get started with our guideWith their steely facades and minimal interiors, art galleries can be intimidating places. In Glasgow, the city’s artists have started doing things differently. Every year, during the Glasgow Open House art festival, they transform their bedrooms, hallways and sitting rooms into mini galleries, inviting members of the public to come inside and explore art in a very
  
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• Turns Out That LACMA Sculpture No Longer Belongs To LACMA, Or Any U.S. Museum

  13-04-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Norbert Kricke’s “Space Sculpture” is now (probably) installed at a Mercedes-Benz factory near Stuttgart, Germany.
  
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• Dear Theatre People (And Other Arts People): You *Have To* Be An Entrepreneur

  13-04-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Why don’t universities make this a mandatory part of the curriculum?’ asked one performing arts student during one of my workshops. ‘Academic narcissism.’ I said without a beat.”
  
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• Morning Links: Column-Free Edition

  13-04-2015 13:44 via artnews.com
  The latest museum trend: column-free spaces. [The Art Newspaper] A profile on Joanne Heyler, the director of philanthropist Eli Broad’s new Broad Museum, opening in Los Angeles this September. Heyler had run the Broad Art Foundation for twenty years prior … Read More
  
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• The TV Landscape Would Look Very Different In 2015 Without Issa Rae

  13-04-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rae’s series featured a cast of fully developed people of color. Links to her web series were passed from young Black woman to young Black woman across social media platforms, like lifelines to a different, better world. She was speaking to an ever-growing circle of women, the series amassing more than 20 million views.”
  
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• If You Want To See Your Work On Broadway, A New Play Won’t Do

  13-04-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘August: Osage County’ was the last serious drama by an American playwright to become a multiyear hit. Since 2010, the only straight play of any kind to have run on Broadway for more than a year was the Lincoln Center Theater transfer of the London production of ‘War Horse.'” Also, it doesn’t help as much […]
  
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• I scream for ice-cream: is this the most nauseating food art ever?

  13-04-2015 08:00
  
  Michael Massaia believes his melted puddles of multicoloured ice-cream are abstract art – but they just make me sick. All that’s missing is a hot pavement and some fliesMy boy lollipop: Michael Massaia’s ice-cream art – in pictures
  Art and food have an ancient and mysterious relationship. Artists have been depicting what they eat since the Ice Age – the bison and mammoths in cave paintings were food for paleolithic hunters.Yet there’s more going on here than meets the eye – literal
  
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• My boy lollipop: Michael Massaia's stomach-churning ice-cream art

  13-04-2015 08:00
  Summer treats rich with childhood nostalgia – from Bugs Bunny to SpongeBob and Dora the Explorer – are reduced to messy, sickly swirls of colour in the name of artJonathan Jones: is this the most nauseating food art ever?Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.12.15

  13-04-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Doing old things in new ways: Geoff Hoyle’s “Lear’s Shadow” at The Marsh AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-04-12 “Disbanding our armies” (in Beauty Class) AJBlog: JumperPublished 2015-04-12 Compatible Quotes: Ray Charles  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-04-11 Eyes: Open and Shut AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-04-11 The Craftsman: Musician Matt Keating AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-04-10 Running Backward, Looking Ahead AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-04-10 Inaugural J
  
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• Angela Lansbury, At Long (Long, Long) Last, Wins An Olivier Award

  13-04-2015 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and judge ourselves as human beings.”
  
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• Week in arts: Le Grand Tango, No Passports Required, and Public symposium

  13-04-2015 02:52
  
  Canberra launches a new gallery space, Bendigo hosts the Wiggles and Augie March, and international creative thinkers converge on PerthIn an exciting new collaboration between Sydney Dance Company and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a trio of new works by choreographers Cass Mortimer Eipper, Lucas Jervies and Rafael Bonachela is set to the music of the Argentine composer Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla for this two-part Latin-inspired concert celebrating the passion of tango.
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• Just Before Its Final Concert, The Green Bay Symphony Had Hundreds Of Tickets Available

  13-04-2015 02:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On the Friday before their final performance, only 480 tickets had been sold. ‘Trying to get Green Bay residents into a classics concert— even this one this Saturday night— is very difficult.'”
  
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