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• Two Tiny European ‘News Sites’ Hack Facebook For Viral News With Just One Problem – It’s Fiction

  03-05-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of CEN’s specialities – as with the naked Russians – is to offer its clients a story to accompany a particularly compelling image.”
  
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• Cuba Kept Artist Tania Bruguera From Receiving Herb Alpert Award

  03-05-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bruguera, an artist known for her challenging works of performance art, which explore everything from the immigrant condition to the nature of police control tactics, was detained in Cuba on multiple occasions early this year after attempting to stage a performance about freedom of expression in Havana’s Revolution Square. The Cuban authorities are still determining […]
  
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• Performers Finally Getting Their Time To Shine At This Summer’s Box Office

  03-05-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The role of Malcolm, a good kid caught up in a bad drug deal, refutes stereotype. The performance of Mr. Moore, a young actor who came up through Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene, refutes typecasting.”
  
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• Star Tenor Alfie Boe Calls On UK Government For More Music Education

  03-05-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Alfie Boe, the romantic tenor who led celebrations outside Buckingham Palace at the Queen’s diamond jubilee concert, has threatened to storm parliament if music education funding in Britain does not improve.”
  
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• Women Experimental And Indie Filmmakers Get A Streaming Platform

  03-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It reaches new audiences, and it kind of revives these works that otherwise would be difficult to see.”
  
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• Universal Settles Over ‘Best Little Whorehouse In Texas’ Home Video Royalties

  03-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The policy of basing profit participation on 20 percent of home video revenues derives from the rise of VCR in the 1980s. The studios would pay independent companies to produce and distribute VHS copies of their films and would receive 20 percent of the revenue, which they would then divide out to the profit participants. […]
  
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• Dalibor, Barbican, review: A brilliant all-Czech performance

  03-05-2015 18:45
  
  To hear a concert performance of Smetana’s almost-forgotten Dalibor after witnessing a lavish production of Szymanowski’s comparably-ignored Krol Roger the night before, was to wish that these works could have swapped places, because while Szymanowski’s opera is dramatically inert and melodically barren, Smetana’s is a cornucopia of melody, intensely dramatic in every bar.
  
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• The Main Problems With This Plan About Giving Ebooks To Poor Kids

  03-05-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Publishers aren’t giving kids a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of free books. They’re free e-books. Which require two things: A good Internet connection — at least at school if not at home — and some sort of device to read them. And that’s a challenge.”
  
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• Krol Roger, Royal Opera House, review: Szymanowski's opera gets a rare airing

  03-05-2015 18:39
  
  It’s always a relief to see something new at Covent Garden, and Kasper Holten’s production of Krol Roger by Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) is the first in ROH history.
  
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• Star Trek’s George Takei Helps Japanese American National Museum Save Art And Artifacts From Internment Camps

  03-05-2015 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Many of the photos picture peoples’ grandparents and parents, and there’s a strong emotional tie there,’ said Takei, who as a boy was imprisoned in two internment camps with his family. ‘To put that up on the auction block to the highest bidder, where it would just disappear into someone’s collection, was insensitive.'”
  
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• This Modernist Villa Saw Wartime Shootings And Murders, And Was Vandalized By Le Corbusier

  03-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “E1027 was the first architectural work of the designer Eileen Gray, completed in 1929 when she was 51 years old. It was a pioneering and accomplished work of the modern movement in architecture, putting into practice ideas that were still new. More than that, it brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked.”
  
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• Fighting Canada’s Theatre Gender Gap

  03-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here in the Cage we believe that making theatre is like making a child: If you want to be truly successful, you need more than just a penis.”
  
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• Berlin's Gallery Weekend: a heady maze of former warehouses and power plants

  03-05-2015 18:27
  
  One of Germany’s biggest art events saw 47 galleries open this year, giving visitors a taste of the city’s experimental and international creative scene For two decades it has been the contemporary art metropolis of Europe, where the damp crumbling warehouses, disused garages and empty luxury flats are inhabited by an estimated 20,000 artists and creatives.It is this artistic ecosystem of Berlin, a heady and experimental environment fuelled by cheap studio space, government grants and a cult
  
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• Cities And Suburbs Can Work Together Instead Of Competing – And It’s Better For Everyone

  03-05-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It’s an approach to regionalism that’s about creating a culture instead of a legal structure,’ Clark adds. ‘People want to behave at the highest level of ethics, provided the guy next door does, too.'”
  
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• The Ballet Of Virginia Woolf

  03-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The delicate textures of her prose, the fractured narratives, the internal music have, quite reasonably, been assumed to be too complex to choreograph. wayne McGregor is challenging that assumption with Woolf Works, his new full-length production for the Royal Ballet.”
  
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• A Nearly Lost Harlem Renaissance Opera Returns To NY

  03-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The presenters said they believe that the revival of ‘Voodoo’ will mark its first performances since 1928, when it had its premiere at the Palm Garden in New York more than a decade after it was composed.”
  
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• The Rise Of Emojis As A Universal Language (And No, We’re Not Kidding)

  03-05-2015 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Analysts at Instagram are trying to quantify this effect, by writing algorithms that predict the context around a given emoji and making a guess at the symbol’s meaning. Running these algorithms through massive batches of Instagram text, they’re identifying groups of semantically similar words and internet slang that map onto a single emoji.”
  
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• How Theatre Makes A Difference To An Escaped Child Soldier

  03-05-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If others can relate to this story, maybe they will begin to dream about peace on Earth, a planet where no child suffers unnecessarily from a war for greed, or a mania for power. It can be. At the least, the spectators may find some level of emotional detox themselves, from whatever ails them.”
  
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• Retiring MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz Talks About Everything, Including The Deitch Years

  03-05-2015 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We were short-staffed, I think that is acknowledged by everyone, but we were all trying to do our best. We also knew that the situation had to be temporary, and were looking forward to a resolution that would bring the museum back to its former self. There were low moments.”
  
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• Why Are We In Such A Rush To Declare The Anthropocene A Reality?

  03-05-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “he Anthropocene is a neologism that attempts to pin down a lot of free-floating anxiety about climate change and the myriad ways that Homo sapiens are making over the planet in our own image. It styles humans as a geological force, as powerful as any ‘natural’ one.”
  
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• Ruth Rendell, Fired From Her Reporting Job For Lying, Became A Famous Mystery Writer

  03-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of the Inspector Wexford books, and also of intense psychological thrillers under the name Barbara Vine, died Saturday at age 85 several months after a serious stroke. Crime writer Val McDermid: “The broad church that is current British crime writing owes much to a writer who over a 50-year career consistently demonstrated that […]
  
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• Facebook Is Eating (Has Eaten?) The Internet

  03-05-2015 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Increasingly, Facebook is America’s news editor. Only it’s an editor with a vague and amorphous set of value—news judgment that is tailored to every reader’s own behaviors and likes.”
  
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• Chicago artist Theaster Gates: 'My studio's been shot at four times by kids. Hats off to them'

  03-05-2015 12:00
  
  When artist Theaster Gates transformed a house on Chicago’s derelict South Side into an artwork open to the community, it was just the beginning. Meet the ‘poster boy for socially engaged art’The 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash looked a lot like the apocalyptic end of something in many American cities, but to Theaster Gates it was a new beginning. Gates, these days director of arts and public life at the University of Chicago, whom ArtReview likes to call “the poster boy for socially engag
  
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• Chicago artist Theaster Gates: 'I’m hoping Swiss bankers will bail out my flooded South Side bank in the name of art'

  03-05-2015 12:00
  
  When artist Theaster Gates transformed a house on Chicago’s derelict South Side into an artwork open to the community, it was just the beginning. Meet the ‘poster boy for socially engaged art’The 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash looked a lot like the apocalyptic end of something in many American cities, but to Theaster Gates it was a new beginning. Gates, these days director of arts and public life at the University of Chicago, whom ArtReview likes to call “the poster boy for socially engag
  
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• Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness review – an exercise in fastidious cogitation

  03-05-2015 08:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Christopher Williams creates images of almost supernatural perfection, then exposes all their artifice and flaws – but to what effect?Six red apples dangle on a bough against a cloudless blue sky. Dewdrops twinkle on their polished surfaces. The photograph makes them look absurdly enticing – the apples from Eden – until you notice that one of them has a tiny dent. These apples are both too perfect and yet also slightly flawed. Continue reading...
  
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• The Ballerina Who Embodied The Bolshoi – And Hated The Soviets – Dies At 89

  03-05-2015 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maya Plisetskaya, “renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s. Vadim Gayevsky, a dance historian and critic, once said she ‘began by creating her own style and ended up creating her own theater.'”
  
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• Photographer Karen Knorr's India Song features animals from Indian folklore in exotic settings

  03-05-2015 01:00
  
  Karen Knorr visited India 15 times between 2008 and 2014. On her first trip, she and a friend travelled 2,000 miles across Rajasthan, visiting heritage sites, temples and palaces – and made a surprising discovery.
  
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• London art exhibition features portrait of Iraqi migrant shot dead in Iraq after being refused UK asylum

  03-05-2015 01:00
  
  When curators installing a London exhibition about migrants hung a portrait of a Kurdish grandfather they found a chilling message written on the back of the drawing. It revealed that the subject of the picture had been shot dead in Iraq three years after he was denied asylum in the UK.
  
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• Idris Khan & Charlie Mortimer: 'I've got all sorts of health issues and Idris is a hypochondriac'

  03-05-2015 01:00
  
  Charlie Mortimer, 63
  
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