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• Three Letters: JE NE SUIS PAS VOUS, ET VOUS N’ÊTES PAS MOI. Laissons là.

  04-05-2015 22:28 via artnews.com
  The latest tormenta in a petrie dish here is the refusal, or whatever one calls it, of several members of PEN Club to host a table at one of those deadly ghoulish literary award ceremonies, because Charlie Hebdo was being … Read More
  
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• Three Letters: Je ne suis pas vous, et vous ne sont pas moi. Laissons là.

  04-05-2015 22:28 via artnews.com
  The latest tormenta in a petrie dish here is the refusal, or whatever one calls it, of several members of PEN Club to host a table at one of those deadly ghoulish literary award ceremonies, because Charlie Hebdo was being … Read More
  
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• Excerpt: Disintegration by Richard Thomas

  04-05-2015 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Windy City Dark MysteryThe post Excerpt: Disintegration by Richard Thomas appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Christopher Williams's new photographs: From Gastro porn to airbrushed models

  04-05-2015 18:52
  
  A few years ago, I went on the set of a TV ad for a Christmas food campaign by a major supermarket. The lighting was soft and sensual, the flesh of the turkey was plump and juicy, the close-ups were slow. For about an hour, I watched gravy being poured again and again. The stream of gravy sparkled under the lights, somehow evoking waterfalls… this was not just gravy. The mood created on the set was that of a love scene.
  
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• The Weird, Great Story Of The Penny Black Stamp And The Beginning Of Mail

  04-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Along with the fine border work and stars in the corners, the Penny Black didn’t feature the name of the country: Victoria was synonymous with the nation at this point. Instead, the word ‘Postage’ differentiated it from the revenue stamps that had been used for decades. Both that and the price, One Penny, were printed […]
  
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• ‘Carambolages’ at Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

  04-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Carambolages” is on view at Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois in Paris until Saturday, May 23. The exhibition features works around impact, collision of media, fragile equilibrium, or accident. … Read More
  
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• ‘We didn’t set out to make a piece about dehumanization, mob mentality, or violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk ‘American Reflexxx’

  04-05-2015 18:27 via artnews.com
  Although American Reflexxx—a short film by Alli Coates starring the performance artist Signe Pierce—premiered two years ago at Art Basel in Miami, only recently has the work surfaced online, on a newly created joint YouTube account belonging to the two … Read More
  
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• Tips On Creativity And Work From A Performance Artist, Including The One About Doing Drugs

  04-05-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Drugs, drinking, dancing and dating helped me shed decades, after acting middle-aged for so long. In addition to losing years off my life, I no longer had the need for a large studio space. I felt lucky, portable and adaptable.”
  
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• The Love Affair Of Scientists And The Lord Of The Rings

  04-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Paleontologists named a 900-pound ancient crocodile Anthracosuchus balrogus, after the Balrog, a giant whip-wielding fire monster from The Lord of the Rings. There is also a dinosaur named after Sauron, which seems kinda harsh.”
  
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• The Reality TV Novel: Goldin+Senneby’s ‘Headless’ Also Lacks a Soul, But That’s Probably the Point

  04-05-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  The Sovereign Group—“Intelligent Offshore Tax Planning Since 1987”—is a management company catering to high-net-worth individuals and corporations who wish to avoid paying taxes. It is primarily involved in managing offshore corporations, trust funds, and pensions, providing “a full range of … Read More
  
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• Art Museums: Intimidating To Racial Minorities? Literal ‘White Spaces’?

  04-05-2015 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  First Lady Michelle Obama at the opening of the new Whitney Museum: “There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes […]
  
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• The Newest Ballet School Drama Doesn’t Promise Much That’s, Well, New

  04-05-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The trailer includes a flash of Sascha Redetsky (of Center Stage fame), chair throwing, and hyper-charged (and entirely cheesy) lines like, ‘I can’t do anything with some frigid small town virgin!'”
  
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• The Most Successful Literary Couple In The U.S.

  04-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The emergence of street lit is one of the big stories in recent American publishing, a juggernaut that has generated huge sales by catering to a readership — young, black and, for the most part, female — that historically has been ill-served by the book business. But the genre is also widely maligned.”
  
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• The Urban Planner Artist Who Wants To Revitalize Without Gentrifying

  04-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artists have long been a useful tool for developers; since the 80s the conventional way of ‘waking up’ destitute urban areas has been to rent out cheap studio space to art students and watch the creativity and the café culture follow, before the loft apartments are sold on to the bonus-rich with authentic artisanal grit […]
  
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• The Newest Hot Literary Journal Is … United Airlines’ In-Flight Magazine?

  04-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists.”
  
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• The Figure in a Matisse-cutout Carpet

  04-05-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  In the spring of 1968, I took the last course ever taught by the art historian Meyer Schapiro. I was, at the time, a junior at Columbia College, and it was a thrill to be studying with someone who could … Read More
  
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• Curators Are Cool Now, But How The Heck Did *That* Happen? [VIDEO]

  04-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a very important and defining aspect of who we are now,” says the author of a book on how everyone is now a (cool) curator.
  
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• Is Live-Streaming Via Meerkat And Periscope Going To Kill Pay Per View Sports?

  04-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And what about things like plays streamed from the National Theatre? Hmmm. “When the starting bell rung at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, multiple live stream feeds of the action appeared on Meerkat and Periscope from people at home who had paid the $89 or $100 for the fight on their TV.”
  
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• Morning Links: ABC No Rio Edition

  04-05-2015 15:27 via artnews.com
  A profile on Charles Ray, “a disturbing presence in contemporary art.” [The New Yorker] May is officially Lower East Side History Month, and as such, punk-rock nonprofit cultural center ABC No Rio will be celebrating its 25-year anniversary with an … Read More
  
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• Saturday Night Live Shows Exactly Why We Don’t Trust Marvel To Make A ‘Girl Superhero Movie’

  04-05-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Turns out, the lethal, ass-kicking Natasha Romanoff is just a simple girl looking for love in the Big Apple. She’s a leather-clad intern at magazine Fashion Weekly who falls for the wrong guy (er, robot): Ultron.”
  
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• Why Emma Rice Is An Excellent, Bold Choice For The Globe

  04-05-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s no doubt that Rice will have respect for Shakespeare, but she is unlikely to be over-awed or cowed by the performance history of the plays. That can only be a good thing, particularly at the Globe.”
  
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• Tourists break piece off priceless 'Statue of the two Hercules' in Italy while trying to take a selfie

  04-05-2015 14:00
  
  Two tourists have managed to break off a piece of a priceless Italian statue which smashed to the floor after they tried to climb it and take a selfie.
  
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• The Danger Of A Single Story About ‘Africa,’ According To One Of The Continent’s Best Novelists

  04-05-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian author, wants American readers to know that African writers don’t just write about Africa’s problems. … Though it might seem obvious to point out, she adds, ‘people are diverse, and there are different things that are going on with them.'”
  
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• What Tony Nominees’ Parents Told Them About Theatre [VIDEO]

  04-05-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My mom kept sayin, ‘You know, you could do community theatre if you’re a dentist in the day, because then you could make your own schedule.'”
  
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• Two Gunmen Killed Trying To Storm Muhammad Cartooning Event In Texas

  04-05-2015 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The event, led by prominent conservatives who are critical of Islam, was ending when two males drove up in a car and began shooting at a police officer outside, according to a statement posted on Facebook by the city of Garland, a suburb about 20 from Dallas.”
  
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• Idris Khan: blurred lines

  04-05-2015 09:00
  
  Idris Khan takes photographs of photographs and sandblasts hundreds of minute lines of text on to marble and steel. Novelist Justin Cartwright meets the artistIdris Khan’s studios are full of light, cluttered in an enviable and rather chic fashion, everything the successful young artist could aspire to, with assistants working away, a lovely kitchen, a palpable feeling of success and energy – and C-types up on the wall.I must confess I did not know what a C-type was until I went to his studi
  
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• San Diego Opera Pays Out $1 Million Settlement To Former Execs Who Tried To Shut Company Down

  04-05-2015 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The payment, which includes accrued retirement plan funds and unused vacation pay, to former general director, artistic director and CEO Ian Campbell and deputy director Ann Spira Campbell was negotiated and paid last June, with the money provided by an anonymous donor separately from all operating funds for the company.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.03.15

  04-05-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not everyone’s idea of a crocodile purse: A post-apartheid take on Jarry’s “Ubu” visits Cal … AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-05-02 Dancing Communities AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-05-02 Dan Brubeck Honors His Parents AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-05-02 Charles Ives and Huck Finn AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2015-05-01 Thoughts as I start a new professional chapter AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-05-01 Consequences AJBlog: SandowPublished 2015-05-01
  
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• The week in arts: Judith Lucy, Alt-J on tour and Fremantle heritage festival

  04-05-2015 04:09
  
  David Malouf talks about his novel-turned opera, Judith Lucy laughs through the tears, Alt-J tours the east coast, Fremantle gets festiveMelbourne City Ballet presents a two-week showcase of new contemporary dance pieces from four top choreographers. Former Royal New Zealand ballet dancer Brendan Bradshaw combines early 20th-century opera, intricate pas de deux and vintage footage for his piece Caruso, and ballet dancer Iona Marques pays tribute to her Brazilian heritage for Ciranda, a work insp
  
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• Who invented the piano? Bartolomeo Cristofori's birthday celebrated in today's Google doodle

  04-05-2015 01:00
  
  The inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori, is celebrated in today’s Google doodle.
  
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• Who invented the piano? Bartolomeo Cristofori celebrated in today's Google doodle

  04-05-2015 01:00
  
  The inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori, is celebrated in today’s Google doodle.
  
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