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• How Do You Juggle Broadway, Hollywood, And Chemo?

  31-05-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She’s so alive onstage and so thrilling to watch. That’s a direct result of her having to live in the moment in her life right now. She doesn’t say, ‘I’ll do it later.’ I’ve never once felt like she wasn’t giving 100% of herself.”
  
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• Urban Planning Via LEGO

  31-05-2015 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the sounds of real construction—jackhammers, saws, cranes—whirring steadily in the background, the toy-sized towers were being heavily edited by visitors with less in the way of architectural bona fides.”
  
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• Hilary Mantel – Once More – On Taking The Tudor Court From Page To Stage

  31-05-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Inside my head, they are whirls and blurs of energy in a show that never sleeps, where even in the small hours the blood runs down the walls. I construct the scenery and source the props, arrange the sound effects: church bells, the cry of hounds. I am my own lighting expert.”
  
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• Black Directors And Filmmakers Flip The Script With Public Twitter Discussion

  31-05-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Academy Award nominee director Ava DuVernay, founder of the African American Film Releasing Movement (AFFRM), organized a massive ‘Rebel-a-Thon.’ The online event included the voices of 43+ black filmmakers—some well known, like Debbie Allen and Malcolm D. Lee.”
  
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• A Haitian Novelist Who Came Of Age In Canada Is The First Non-French Citizen Inducted Into Academie Française

  31-05-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dany Laferrière “wore the signature costume of academicians: a black tailcoat embroidered with green olive branches that in his case a Montreal embroiderer spent 500 hours sewing, and a metal sword specially made by a Haitian sculptor with references to Legba, the Voodoo deity of crossroads.”
  
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• An Irish Art Collector, Drowned On The Lusitania, Left His Collection To Ireland – So Of Course It’s In London

  31-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t think it is unreasonable for me –or for anyone who has studied the history of the Lane paintings – to feel a glow of righteous rage when we see the ownership of these paintings vested solely and simply in the National Gallery, London.”
  
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• The Raid To Find Long-Missing Nazi Art

  31-05-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although a few museums will be pleased to be able to exhibit the original works — as reminders of the fanatic cult of heroism that led to the deaths of millions of people — the artistic value of the bombastic sculptures is debatable at the very least.”
  
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• NYU confronts stereotypes with exhibition of racially charged art

  31-05-2015 19:14
  
  ReSignifications sees established and emerging artists present work inspired by the ‘Blackamoors’ of Florentine villa left to university by Sir Harold ActonWhen the late British writer, art connoisseur and friend of the Queen, Sir Harold Acton, bequeathed his family’s Italian villa to New York University in 1994, the gift included a vast trove of art valued at hundreds of millions of pounds. But among the 6,000-piece collection were 35 works that left some of La Pietra’s new owners feeli
  
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• Exhibit takes Italian villa's art to tackle today's objectification of the black body

  31-05-2015 19:14
  
  ReSignifications sees established and emerging artists present work inspired by the ‘Blackamoors’ of Florentine villa left to NYU by Sir Harold Acton 20 years agoWhen the late British writer, art connoisseur and friend of the Queen, Sir Harold Acton, bequeathed his family’s Italian villa to New York University in 1994, the gift included a vast trove of art valued at hundreds of millions of pounds. But among the 6,000-piece collection were 35 works that left some of La Pietra’s new owners
  
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• DVD Box Sets: Still A Thing?

  31-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The studios owning rights to those shows are rushing to release complete collections, especially of long-running series, while consumers are still in the habit of buying them.”
  
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• Dressing ‘Sleeping Beauty’ For The Ballet Theater At The Met

  31-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Then there are the ornate headpieces and floppy, wide-brimmed hats. Everyone wears a wig. … There are 210 of them, three times as many as in any other Ballet Theater production, the head of the wig department, Rena Most, said. The Queen’s perruque towers above her like a sheaf of wheat, augmented further by a […]
  
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• Why The World Needs Women Rock Critics

  31-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the effort to prove the burgeoning rock scene of the sixties a worthy subject of critical inquiry, rock needed to be established as both serious and authentic. One result of these arguments—the Rolling Stones vs. Muddy Waters, Motown vs. Stax, Bob Dylan vs. the world—was that women came out on the losing side, as […]
  
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• Will The Protest Mattress – Remember, It Was A Senior Year Art Project – End Up In A Museum?

  31-05-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever its fate in art or social history, Mattress Performance could well live on in objecthood. But would a museum or gallery want it? On the phone from California, where she is visiting a friend in Laguna Beach post-graduation and luxuriating in the distance from the 50-pound mattress she hauled around daily since September, Sulkowicz […]
  
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• Explaining Theatre To Someone Who’s Never Seen A Play

  31-05-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps what we don’t talk about enough is the pleasure of theatre, how it makes us feel, and why those of us who go frequently love it so much.”
  
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• How A Twitter Campaign Changed (This Year’s) BookCon

  31-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There were some instances where, when we were planning panels — Who’s available? Who fits with kind of the theme of this panel? — where we would definitely stop and say, ‘We need diversity included here. We have three white people; the fourth cannot be that way.'”
  
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• When The Only ‘American Girl’ Black Doll Is A Slave, We’ve Got A Problem

  31-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you were a white girl who wanted a historical doll who looked like you, you could imagine yourself in Samantha’s Victorian home or with Kirsten, weathering life on the prairie. If you were a black girl, you could only picture yourself as a runaway slave.”
  
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• Instead Of ‘Decluttering,’ Try Loving Your Stuff And Its History

  31-05-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is time to liberate ourselves from the propaganda of divestment. I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.”
  
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• What’s Wrong With Hiring On ‘Cultural Fit’? Only Everything

  31-05-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is easy to mistake rapport for skill. Just as they erroneously believe that they can accurately tell when someone is lying, people tend to be overly confident in their ability to spot talent.”
  
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• The Lawsuit Over The Principal Oboist In Buffalo

  31-05-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Davis asked to sit somewhere else during rehearsals and performances – an unusual request because the principal flutist and principal oboist sit side-by-side in front of the woodwind section. She said she didn’t want to sit so close ‘to someone who was very enraged.'”
  
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• Artist Jack Vettriano left unable to paint for 'forseeable future' by shoulder injury

  31-05-2015 12:03
  
  Artist Jack Vettriano – beloved by the public but less of a hit with critics – has suffered an injury that had left him unable to paint for the “foreseeable future”.
  
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• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: artist in search of the mystery figure

  31-05-2015 11:30
  
  The British artist’s work is increasingly sought after, and this week marks her first major London show. But who are the people in her paintings?When I ask if I might meet the young British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at her studio in Hackney, east London, the message comes back from the Serpentine Gallery, where she will shortly have a one-woman show, that this won’t be possible.“There’s only one chair,” I’m told. “There’s nowhere to sit down.” Continue reading...
  
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• Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2) review – always alert to the future

  31-05-2015 08:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford
  Spanning half a century, the pioneering art of America’s Lynn Hershman Leeson is strange, beautiful and, best of all, funnyThe first thing to say about Lynn Hershman Leeson is that she is extremely funny. No description of her career – film-maker, sculptor, performance artist, new media pioneer, “investigator of selfhood” and other tedious art-world labels – gives any hint of this fact. For 50 years (she was born in 1941) Hershman Leeson has been applying her acute in
  
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• Untitled(She cuts out eyeballs of tepid dead bodies)

  31-05-2015 02:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  M’s former husband is a librarian. He looks at porn of underage girls having sex with a dude who uses a video camera to film them and of women getting gang raped in a van. M thinks her ex was reenacting the rape scenes when he had sex with her. He started a poetry group ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(She cuts out eyeballs of tepid dead bodies) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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