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• When Marc Maron Interviewed Uber-Interviewer Terry Gross

  17-05-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She thought about being a writer; she tried teaching. Then she began volunteering at a local radio station. (There was an opening at the feminist show because one of the producers was moving to the lesbian feminist show.)”
  
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• It Took Queen Latifah 20 Years – And HBO – To Bring A Movie About Bessie Smith To The Screen

  17-05-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director Dee Rees: “This is a woman who is complicated, and even the way she’s talked about is complicated. And no two people necessarily agree on who she was or how she was. And if I couldn’t answer the ‘how,’ I wanted to answer the ‘why.’ I wanted to understand what’s inside her, so I […]
  
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• Canterbury Cathedral’s 800-Year-Old Stained Glass Comes Down To Ground Level

  17-05-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This enormous carpet of glowing colour is some of the oldest and most extensive stained glass in Europe – and so in the world. It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in […]
  
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• A Leap In Theft Of Rare Books Leads To A Rise In Book Security Forces

  17-05-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The losses include volumes created hundreds of years ago, some mutilated by having single sheets brutally removed with scalpels. Tens of thousands of historic books and manuscripts are thought to be missing, according to a leading art lawyer, Chris Marinello, head of London-based company Art Recovery International.”
  
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• How One Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Might (Or Might Not) Adjust To New Equity Minimum Wage Standards

  17-05-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When people are trying to save money, if you don’t force them out of that situation they’re going to choose free actors every time.”
  
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• Silicon Valley Remakes Its Dream Of Life Without Politics

  17-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Building a government, it turns out, is a more complex challenge than much of Silicon Valley would have you believe. Now, Thiel and other high-profile Silicon Valley investors are carefully taking stock of the anti-government view they helped popularize.”
  
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• Inheriting A Kindle Library And Realizing The Value Of Print

  17-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While my younger sister was going through our mother’s personal belongings, she came across something she thought I might like. ‘Do you want mum’s Kindle?’ she asked via text message. I stared at the message and thought about the irony of the endless debates I had with my mother. Now that she was gone, all […]
  
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• So The Minnesota Orchestra Tour Of Cuba Is Selling Out And Earning Rave Reviews

  17-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The tour was designed not only to highlight the thaw between the nations, but also the thaw within the orchestra: It resumed playing together only last year after a bitter labor dispute led to a lockout that silenced it for 16 months. Now the orchestra is working to recapture what was lost.”
  
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• A Very Small Sampling Of Older (Women) Artists We Should Have Known About All Along

  17-05-2015 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faith Ringgold: “‘If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition,’ Ringgold says today. ‘You have to stay in the game.’ Ringgold has not only stayed in the game, she recently designed one of her own, called ‘Quiltuduko,’ for mobile devices. Inspired by Sudoku, the number game, it uses quilt […]
  
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• Columbia Scoops Up Archives From (The Very Alive) Founder Of Dance Theater Of Harlem

  17-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In sorting through his material, Mr. Mitchell said, he realized that his message had been constant. ‘We were all on a mission to prove that blacks could do classical ballet,’ he said. ‘It really was a way of doing and being.'”
  
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• Should Air Strikes Defend World Heritage Sites From ISIS?

  17-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Palmyra is an ancient Roman site whose significance and value is exceeded by very few others: those in Rome itself, Pompeii, possibly Petra in Jordan. Its temples, colonnades and tombs, its theatre and streets are extensive, exquisite, distinctive, rich. The loss of Palmyra would be a cultural atrocity greater than the destruction of the Buddhas […]
  
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• Musée de la Danse review – human heaven in living dance archive

  17-05-2015 17:42
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Boris Charmatz’s inspirational takeover of Tate Modern – featuring a free-for-all rave – was uplifting, surprising and bruisingly physicalAll art is, on some level, about people, about ourselves. Art objects are the remains of human activity. Yet the art of dance leaves no remains. What then, asked French choreographer Boris Charmatz, might a dance museum look like? Musée de la Danse – a two-day transformation of Tate Modern that continues with performances at
  
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• Musée de la Danse five-star review – human heaven in living dance archive

  17-05-2015 17:42
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Boris Charmatz’s inspirational takeover of Tate Modern – featuring a free-for-all rave – was uplifting, surprising and bruisingly physicalAll art is, on some level, about people, about ourselves. Art objects are the remains of human activity. Yet the art of dance leaves no remains. What then, asked French choreographer Boris Charmatz, might a dance museum look like? Musée de la Danse – a two-day transformation of Tate Modern that continues with performances at
  
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• Peter Pan Is Now An Opera, Which Is Fitting Because The Story Behind Pan Is Pretty Damn Tragic

  17-05-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter “is always seeking selfish pleasure, forgets people and events and has no empathy for others. Barrie refers to him many times as happy, innocent and heartless.”
  
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• ABT At 75: Its Success Means A Lot Of Imitators

  17-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You always try to go back to the original source and go, this is where it came from, this is what it’s about, this is what it was meant to be.”
  
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• Using The Internet Of Things To Handle Intimate Relationships – And Stalk Partners Too

  17-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The recipes run the gamut, from the totally sexist (‘Text my wife that I work very hard for us’) to the digitally endearing (‘Text girlfriend ‘I love you’ every day at midnight’) to the totally practical (‘Forward your kid’s school report card on to your husband!’).”
  
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• The Truth About Ballet Dancers Is Less ‘Black Swan’ And More, Yes, Fun

  17-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  That is, lots of coffee, lots of cigarettes and lots of one-night stands with beautiful people.
  
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• In London, The Stars Are Onstage

  17-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These stars are just the latest wave of big-name actors to appear on the London stage, which can burnish an already glowing reputation, reboot a career or simply provide a challenge like no other.”
  
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• David Hockney's Painting and Photography at Annely Juda Fine Art, review: An unfortunately banal exhibition

  17-05-2015 15:08
  
  My first encounter with David Hockney was aged 11, when the teacher of my primary school class pinned a reproduction of his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash to the blackboard and told us to copy it. We were oblivious to the cool modernism of the Los Angeles scene, the balance of monotone blue on blue, the elegance, the gay erotics which so often featured in Hockney’s paintings of this time. What ensued was 30 muddy copies of the copy.
  
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• Two Women Take A Memoir Writing Class, And You (Seriously) Will Not Believe What Happens Next

  17-05-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Their lives crossed in January 2013, on the first day of a writing class, when they took part in one of those familiar around-the-table introductions that by the end had led them to a stunning realization. These strangers were sisters.”
  
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• Miuccia Prada: I hate the idea of being a collector. I really hate it

  17-05-2015 11:00
  
  She’s one of the industry’s biggest names but thinks life is about ideas, not frocks. Armani described her designs as ‘ugly’ but they remain hugely desired. She has opened a giant gallery in Milan but doesn’t like being called a collector. So exactly who is Miuccia Prada?For the journalist used to the Gatwick Express and EasyJet, delivery into the lavish embrace of Prada is somewhat disconcerting. “I could get used to this,” you think, even as you worry that your sho
  
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• Carsten Höller: ‘It is impossible to travel down a slide without smiling’

  17-05-2015 09:00
  
  From the Tate’s helter skelters to upside-down goggles and mushroom-munching reindeer, Carsten Höller is the most exciting of artists. Tim Adams meets him in Stockholm to hear what he plans nextThere must be a reason,” Carsten Höller says, “why we don’t remember early childhood. Maybe it is genetic, maybe it is something else…”Whatever the reason, over the summer on London’s South Bank, Höller – the authentic Willy Wonka of contemporary art – will do his utmost to re
  
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• Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist review – the king of political montage

  17-05-2015 08:00
  
  Imperial War Museum, London
  Peter Kennard’s thought-provoking images have long since passed into visual parlance and this lifetime retrospective offers an excellent overview of his workThere is a photomontage by the great political artist Peter Kennard that gets straight to the point. It shows a pair of elderly hands clutching a knife and fork in an attempt to cut a grimy coin on a plate of meagre pennies. The causal connections between hunger, poverty, debt, capital and survival are all fused
  
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• Ruven Afanador's latest photography book showcases the surreal world of flamenco dancers

  17-05-2015 01:00
  
  Growing up in Bucaramanga, Colombia, Ruven Afanador heard stories about the gypsies, or gitanos, who had roamed the south of Spain for centuries. He became transfixed by stories of their chants, costume – and their dancing. Despite never having seen a flamenco dancer in real life, he created in his head an image of passionate characters with dark-rimmed eyes who wandered Andalusia alone.
  
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• Daniel Frost's Haircuts of Hackney – in pictures

  17-05-2015 00:00
  
  When he moved to London from Staffordshire, artist Daniel Frost fell in love with the city’s diversity. “Everyone was from different parts of the world, with different personalities, characters and styles,” he says. He is now based in Hackney, east London, and in a new fold-out book he celebrates the heads of the varied crowd he sees on his way to the studio every morning. “I didn’t want them to be stand-alone images – they’re meant to be seen together, like a crowd of people. I li
  
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