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• How One ’90s Movie Remains (Sadly) Unique In U.S. Media

  05-07-2015 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nair’s insistence on casting Indian actors in lead roles was a deal-breaker for many Hollywood studios. Only when rising star Denzel Washington was cast in the role of Demetrius did the film get studio backing in the U.S.”
  
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• Hollywood Gets Calls To Action For The Apparently Endangered American Movie Star

  05-07-2015 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The invasion of British and Irish leading men in Hollywood has now gone beyond a joke for many in the American entertainment industry. First noticed some time in 2011, the trend was initially dismissed as a novelty: an interesting phase that would pass, rather than as a threat. But this summer actors and directors are […]
  
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• What’s Going To Happen To Canadian Books?

  05-07-2015 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In reality, writers find that a belief in an author, as opposed to a particular book – an author as a long-term investment – tends to exist less and less. There is little loyalty. I know a half-dozen respected Canadian authors who have been breezily dumped in recent years by major publishers because their sales […]
  
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• Maybe We Love British TV So Much Because American Literature Is Too Dark For TV

  05-07-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The executive producer of Masterpiece: “This is a huge generalization, but [American novels] have tended not to have all the elements that make it good for television, whether it’s too interior or there’s not enough action.”
  
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• Making Music Out Of Seizures And Smog

  05-07-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you had programming skills, you could re-associate number 60 with any sound – real or imagined – from the plink of a woodblock to the bleep of a computer. In the most basic sense, this is what Chafe does. With a free, open-source, downloadable program for music called ChucK, he transforms eye-glazing data: clarinets […]
  
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• As ‘Maria’ Retires From Sesame Street, A Look At How She Changed TV – And The U.S.

  05-07-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Manzano’s gift to us, the power of her presence, lies in the fullness of Maria’s humanity. While still being proudly brown and representing Nuyorican excellence in all its glory, Maria never became a caricature, never boxed herself into the facile images of Latinos that American television sometimes still offers up. She slipped easily in and […]
  
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• Since We’re Talking Civil War, Where *Are* All Of The Monuments?

  05-07-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The animated map shows how Union and Confederate markers accumulated over time and where. It also allows you to compare and contrast the language with which the two sections valorized their respective causes. As time progresses, monuments dot the map, accelerating at certain historical moments.”
  
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• Jeff Koons: ‘People respond to banal things – they don’t accept their own history’

  05-07-2015 19:00
  When it sold for $58m, his Balloon Dog became the most expensive artwork by a living artist. Are the critics right to dismiss his work as ‘smug’ and ‘baloney’, or is he justified in saying it teaches us a vital lesson about materialism?Several years ago, Jeff Koons and his wife, Justine, took a turn around the Palace of Versailles near Paris, where an exhibition of his work had just opened. Koons, who would later see one of his sculptures sell at auction for $58m (£37m) – a recor
  
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• If You Think Most Theatre Is Overrated, Perhaps You’re … Right

  05-07-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The truth is that with any art form you have to wade through a lot of less good stuff to find the gems, and there is a purpose in the less good stuff because that’s how artists, novelists, film-makers and theatre-makers learn. And for the reader or the audience there is a real pleasure in […]
  
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• Maybe London, And Its Architecture, And Its Character, Aren’t Actually In Trouble?

  05-07-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I am not a Londonphobe. I don’t hate the city. I am not planning to leave. I do not oppose all building – I don’t think we are building enough, or in the best ways.”
  
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• Apple Music Is Actually A Return To Radio, Right?

  05-07-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apple Music, or at least part of it, is “a simple but radical disruption of the individualized listening experience we’ve become accustomed to online. It’s in essence the opposite of what Apple Music’s predecessor, the iTunes Store, did more than a decade ago.”
  
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• London’s Antiquities Buyers Are Making ISIS A Cash-Rich Terror Group

  05-07-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Buyers are not getting the message that the purchase of such antiquities is enabling war and terror in the Middle East. ‘These are blood antiquities,’ says Altaweel, adding that attempts to make the cultural-heritage case for more action to stop trade in looted goods have not yielded results. ‘What might work more is to say […]
  
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• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Wins Its Battle With A German ‘Copycat’

  05-07-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) – the longest-running group of its kind – took action against The United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (TUKUO), which played its first gig just four years ago, complaining it was a ‘copycat’ group and could lead to fans booking for the wrong event.”
  
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• The Brother-Sister Dancing Duo Starring On Broadway This Year

  05-07-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  City Ballet dancers Megan Fairchild – who’s starring in On the Town – and Robbie Fairchild – nominated for a Tony for An American in Paris – are used to dancing together, but now they’re on Broadway, they have to FaceTime to see each other. Megan: “This is connecting us and bringing us closer in […]
  
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• What In The Heck Happened To The Suddenly Closed Gene Autry Museum?

  05-07-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum, which opened in 1991 under the same roof as the town’s post office, contained movie posters, record albums, storybook covers, coloring books, tin lunchboxes, cereal boxes and other memorabilia and trinkets featuring images of the late actor and recording artist.” But is any of that left? Not even the director is talking.
  
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• Rob Ryan: 'my art isn't very edgy, but I’m not that kind of artist'

  05-07-2015 15:24
  
  Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photographyWhimsical, melancholy and heartfelt, the intricate works of Rob Ryan can be found in households across the UK in prints on the wall, books on the shelves and on mugs in the kitchen.Now Yorkshire Sculpture Park is to exhibit the first retrospective of Ryan’s work. Hand-drawn and either screen-printed or cut from thick paper, these intricate works depi
  
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• Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots review – revelations in black

  05-07-2015 11:45
  
  Tate Liverpool
  Hanging Pollock’s early semi-figurative paintings alongside his familiar abstract works offers thrilling proof of a single continuing visionJackson Pollock: Blind Spots is a sensational exhibition – grand, exhilarating and so unexpected as to make the painter’s career look altogether different. It brings together nearly half of the semi-figurative Black Paintings from the early 1950s. This would be unique enough – they haven’t been shown together since Pollock’s death,
  
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• Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust review – exquisite curiosities

  05-07-2015 08:59
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Joseph Cornell’s ‘poetical theatres’ conjure up intense worlds of mystery, devotion and longingJoseph Cornell (1903-72) had the mind of a visionary and the methods of an archivist. He accumulated odds and ends from the real world – a bird’s egg, a marble, a foreign stamp, a thimble – and assembled them into enigmatic dreams. The little boxes for which he’s famous, when filled with arrangements of tiny fragments and fronted with glass, convey an intense but mys
  
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• Ambrogio Maestri: The charismatic Italian baritone on food and Falstaff

  05-07-2015 05:45
  
  Ambrogio Maestri is one of the most in- demand opera singers in the world, but if it all ended tomorrow he could probably forge a new career as a television chef.
  
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• Graphic designer Nick Barclay breaks down classics cocktails in his minimalist poster designs

  05-07-2015 01:00
  
  When Londoner Nick Barclay emigrated to Sydney six years ago, he was immediately impressed by the city's booming cocktail scene. Returning to our capital for a visit last year, he saw that it was catching on here, too. The graphic designer had been looking for a new project, and on the flight back to Australia, inspiration struck.
  
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