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• Reviving Pakistan’s Legendary Classical Music Scene

  19-04-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Pakistan’s second-largest city once had a booming film industry and a flourishing music scene. Classical musicians, with their tabla drums, violins and sitars, would perform on stage, in movies and in crowded markets. Then in 1977, Pakistan’s sixth president, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, clamped down on the film and music industry.”
  
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• The First Movies Shot In New York

  19-04-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These documentary films, just a minute or two long, were called actualities; they had no plots, stories or characters. They were soon supplanted by story films, Mr. Sanders wrote, especially chase scenes with police officers and criminals.”
  
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• Reputed Mobster Discussed Gardner Theft With Undercover FBI Agent

  19-04-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Prosecutor John Durham said that Gentile had discussed a sale of paintings stolen from the Gardner museum. He did not provide further detail on what came of the purported discussions. Gentile has not been charged in connection with the missing artwork.”
  
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• The Faces And Voices Of Harlem By Moonlight (A Movie)

  19-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I felt that was a great way to introduce the conflict of the people. To humanize and validate themselves is part of the struggle, but the other struggle is just to obtain a few dollars. The story of their night could be making $5.”
  
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• Author Louise Erdrich Uses Art To Create A Reading Where She Doesn’t Have To Be There

  19-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The show, ‘Asynchronous Reading,’ features several telephones placed throughout the gallery, each offering a different message. As one woman picked up a vintage telephone and listened intently, Erdrich couldn’t help but smile.”
  
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• The Cartoon Art Museum Falls Prey To San Francisco’s Affordable Rent Crisis

  19-04-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It’s a changing market out there,’ says Summerlea Kashar, the museum’s executive director. ‘It’s hard for organizations like us to keep up with that acceleration.'”
  
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• Did The Artists’ Boycott Of The Sydney Biennale Do Any Good? (And Many More Questions For A Curator/Artist)

  19-04-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Nelson: “Obviously it didn’t change anything in terms of government policy – mandatory detention still exists. I think we’ll have a better way of seeing how all this stuff all plays out in 10 years time.”
  
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• The Machines Are Coming To Replace Us All

  19-04-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Machines aren’t used because they perform some tasks that much better than humans, but because, in many cases, they do a “good enough” job while also being cheaper, more predictable and easier to control than quirky, pesky humans. Technology in the workplace is as much about power and control as it is about productivity and […]
  
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• Should Media Pay For Using ‘Citizen News’ Photos And Video?

  19-04-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “News stations benefit financially from videos like Santana’s, so why shouldn’t the people who shot them?”
  
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• A Day In The Life Of A Los Angeles Graffiti Buster [VIDEO]

  19-04-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Larry Bender has spent 20 years covering up graffiti in and around the L.A. area. He’s a professional ‘graffiti buster,’ splattered in paint, who drives around the city on the lookout for tags.”
  
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• What Will Donor Al Taubman’s Death Mean For The Detroit Institute Of Arts?

  19-04-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Taubman gave tens of millions in cash to the DIA as a lead contributor to three major fund-raising campaigns. … The DIA will certainly be a beneficiary in his will, though even some among the museum’s top leadership said Saturday that the nature of his ultimate gifts to the DIA remained unclear.”
  
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• Second Stage Buys The Helen Hayes Theater, Ending Months Of Discussion And Worry

  19-04-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage, said the theater would be used for plays by contemporary American writers, with a particular emphasis on works by women and minority members. She said having a Broadway stage should enable the company to pay higher salaries to writers and actors, to run shows for a longer […]
  
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• For Kabul schoolgirls, learning to ride a skateboard is pathway to liberation

  19-04-2015 16:00
  
  British photographer documents Skateistan, an unusual project in Afghanistan that helps young people to build their confidenceWith an oversized red helmet on her head and bright pink kneepads over her shalwar kameez, a little girl gazes directly at the camera. She stands atop a skateboard, ready to launch herself down a ramp at any second.This is not just a child at play. The battered skateboard at her feet is symbolic of more than a toy. The photograph, taken at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan,
  
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• Can PR be an art form? A new programme of events at the V&A sets out to say yes

  19-04-2015 15:46
  
  The V&A is a museum of art, design and performance, and a lot of people will ask why we are putting on an exhibition about PR. Is PR art? Well, that’s the question we seek to answer. Is it art? Is it social engineering? We do not want to say whether things are good or bad. Rather, our role at the V&A is to give people access to understand things better.
  
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• The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay, Tate Modern, review: Blockbuster puts a pioneer back in the picture

  19-04-2015 15:13
  
  Sonia Delaunay’s is the most recent one-woman show to occupy the capacious Tate Modern. Does she deserve it? Absolutely. The painter and designer was married to the notable abstract painter Robert Delaunay, but this carefully curated chronological show elevates her to her rightful position  as a major artist in her own right.
  
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• That Time An Artist Published Pictures Of Her Children, And The NYT Almost Destroyed Her

  19-04-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In my arrogance and certitude that everyone must see the work as I did, I left myself wide open to journalism’s greatest hazard: quotations lacking context or the sense of irony or self-­deprecating humor with which they were delivered.”
  
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• Remember Q, The CBC Program That Used To Star Jian Ghomeshi? It’s Been Rebranded As q

  19-04-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marketing expert: “Personally, I think that that’s probably not enough of an effort.”
  
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• Kenneth Branagh Sets Up New Theatre Company With Judi Dench, Lily James, Rob Brydon

  19-04-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Also, the guy who plays Robb Stark on Game of Thrones. “The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted ‘to have a creative home where you could do a programme of work, rather than just one-offs'”
  
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• Oil companies' sponsorship of the arts 'is cynical PR strategy'

  19-04-2015 12:32
  
  Campaigner says attempts by oil companies such as BP and Shell to ‘artwash’ their image are done simply to gain prestige and nullify local protestsOil companies are sponsoring the arts around the world on an “epidemic” scale as a cynical PR strategy to improve their reputation, a new book argues.Mel Evans, a campaigner who five years ago was one of two activists to gatecrash Tate Britain’s summer party and pour molasses on the floor of the gallery, has written Artwash, which explores t
  
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• Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske review – unpicking life’s rich tapestry

  19-04-2015 07:59
  
  Julia Blackburn’s portrait of Norfolk fisherman-turned-artist John Craske becomes much more than a simple biographyOne day, not many years ago, the writer Julia Blackburn was talking with a painter friend called Emily. “What about John Craske?” offered Emily. And so it was that Blackburn found the subject of her new book, a biography that shades first into memoir and then into something much more complicated. How to describe it? “Meditation” is too pompous, and it would be rather obvio
  
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• Syrian artist hopes to show human cost of conflict in new London exhibition

  19-04-2015 01:05
  
  Exiled painter Sara Shamma, a former leading light of the Damascus art scene, wants to open people’s eyes to the realities of the war in her homelandOne of Syria’s most well-known and striking artists, now exiled in the Lebanon, will bring her unsettling new work to Britain next month, in an attempt to share her experience of loss and fears for the future. Sara Shamma, once a leading lights of the art scene in Damascus, has given her show the title World Civil War Portraits to reflect her be
  
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• Photographer Dillon Marsh captures man-made palm trees that disguise mobile-phone towers

  19-04-2015 01:00
  
  Almost a third of Britain's 36,000 mobile masts are currently struggling to pick up signals, stymied by the trees that operators were required to plant next to them to conceal the unsightly equipment. The trees were planted in the 1990s, and as their trunks have grown and branches filled out, they now cause havoc on our phone lines.
  
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