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• The Man Who Sculpted Disneyland – And Made Pirates Out Of Churchgoers

  12-07-2015 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gibson’s handiwork includes the buccaneers of the popular Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, the fearsome ghosts and goblins of the Haunted Mansion, the colorful birds of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room and the global village children of It’s a Small World. He created the sculpture of Abraham Lincoln that became the first Audio-Animatronic figure.”
  
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• What Does A Dancer Do After A Career-Killing Injury? [VIDEO]

  12-07-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Karine Newborn knew she wanted to be a professional dancer since watching her mother dance as a little girl in Paris. Her career as a dancer took a sharp turn though after suffering an injury while performing on Broadway. The single mother and dancer found herself unable to continue her career as a dancer, putting […]
  
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• Hip Hop ‘Hamilton’ Heads To Broadway With Massive Advance Ticket Sales

  12-07-2015 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Miranda, at an airport on his way to a vacation with his wife in Mexico, picked up a copy of ‘Alexander Hamilton,’ a 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. By the second chapter, Mr. Miranda thought the story was made for hip-hop: Hamilton, an orphaned immigrant, plays a key role both in the American Revolution […]
  
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• Jon Vickers, One of 20th Century’s Great Heroic Tenors, Dead At 88

  12-07-2015 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Vickers performance in the opera house was a grand, sweeping, overriding affair. It was often a performance of extremes, something more readily comparable to what Marlon Brando or Zero Mostel might do than to what his operatic colleagues did.”
  
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• Let’s Face It: Empathy Is A Choice

  12-07-2015 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Empathy for people unlike us can be expanded, it seems, just by modifying our views about empathy.”
  
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• Texting In The Theatre Is Rude, Sure, But It’s Also Flat-Out Stupid For Your Cell Phone’s Battery

  12-07-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Broadway theaters weren’t built for cell phone usage—many of them date to the early 20th century. They’re made of marble on the outside and have thick walls on the inside, which absorb sound. … Even from a technical standpoint, using your phone in a theater is pointless — your battery drains even if the phone […]
  
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• Patti LuPone Shouldn’t Have To Police Cell Phone Use In The Theatre

  12-07-2015 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here’s what I’m wondering. Why haven’t theaters, which have known about this problem for eons, taken a harder line on behalf of their own audiences and productions? Why, in all these years, hasn’t a deterrent been found? … At the point at which actors no longer feel they can do their jobs, management is required […]
  
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• The Biggest Shock In Harper Lee’s New Novel: Atticus Finch, Unrepentant Racist

  12-07-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Atticus Finch — the crusading lawyer of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ whose principled fight against racism and inequality inspired generations of readers — is depicted in ‘Watchman’ as an aging racist who has attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting, holds negative views about African-Americans and denounces desegregation efforts.”
  
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• Bill Cosby's private art collection at Smithsonian withstands controversy

  12-07-2015 19:46
  
  Smithsonian officials reveal Cosbys gave $716,000 gift to fund display and conclude exhibit should continue despite possible conflict of interestOver the past seven months, as sexual misconduct allegations against Bill Cosby mounted, a top Smithsonian official met privately with museum directors across the sprawling complex on the National Mall to decide what to do about an exhibit showcasing Cosby’s private art collection.While many companies and universities were distancing themselves from t
  
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• The MFA Students Who Quit USC En Masse Get A Gallery Show

  12-07-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Soto said he’s pleased to bring the focus back to art: ‘I felt like the best thing was to give them autonomy and see what it is they wanted to do in their space.'”
  
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• Making History While Writing Late Night Comedy

  12-07-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robin Thede, the first African-American woman to head a comedy writing team for a late night host: “The thing about tragedy is that it causes people to react in a myriad of ways … [and] some of them are very hilarious. You don’t make fun of the actual tragedy. You make fun of the ridiculous […]
  
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• Paint against the clock festival raises enigmatic smiles across London

  12-07-2015 18:26
  
  Pintar Rapido competition sees 300 artists of all abilities race to various spots across city to produce a painting in one day, to be sold in exhibition the next From the bustling interior of King’s Cross station to the quiet and leafy squares of Chelsea, hundreds of professional and amateur artists took to the streets of London on Saturday in a bid to paint against the clock, as part of the UK’s largest outdoor painting competition.Continue reading...
  
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• The Sand, Sea & Spray urban art festival in Blackpool – in pictures

  12-07-2015 18:10
  
  The organisers of Sand Sea & Spray have invited more than 20 well known street artists from around the world to create works in an attempt to help regenerate parts of the seaside town Continue reading...
  
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• The Sand, Sea & Spray urban art festival in Blackpool

  12-07-2015 18:10
  
  The organisers of Sand Sea & Spray have invited more than 20 well known street artists from around the world to create works in an attempt to help regenerate parts of the seaside town Continue reading...
  
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• So, How Exactly *Was* Harper Lee’s ‘New Novel’ Found?

  12-07-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or, “Eight Different Ways To Describe How ‘Go Set A Watchman’ Came To Be A Published Novel.”
  
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• When New York Vanished

  12-07-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Prior to the landmarks law there was no legal means for protecting historic sites like the Roxy. Many had fallen into disrepair. … It took the destruction of many beloved places before the law gained the political support it needed.
  
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• Is Rock, With Its Simple Chords And Overriding Beat, The Sound Of Mass Complacency?

  12-07-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So powerful was the rock beat that all other attributes of the music were presented as secondary, or totally inconsequential. ‘ “Positive” lyrics are mostly a sop to minds that do not want to know what they are thinking,’ he wrote.”
  
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• A National Memorial Should Not Be Designed To Please One Family

  12-07-2015 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Critics in Congress insist that there will be no monument built without final approval by the Eisenhower family. For Congress to yield such power to family members, however, cuts against the whole idea of a national consensus to honor a national hero.”
  
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• The Avant-Garde Opera Director Who Has To Dodge The Paparazzi

  12-07-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sophie Hunter, an opera director and actor who happens to be married to Benedict Cumberbatch, “sees no real distinction between her niche work in opera and the kind of commercial success that her husband enjoys in films such as The Imitation Game or in next month’s production of Hamlet at the Barbican, for which all […]
  
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• Soundscapes review – feeble, wrong-headed, and unambitious

  12-07-2015 11:45
  
  National Gallery, London
  Inviting sound artists to compose a work in response to a painting in the collection is the worst idea the National Gallery has had in yearsLet’s start with a quick test. Imagine you are standing in front of a pointillist shoreline of clear waters beneath an opalescent sky. Tiny waves stir the surface, which is composed of thousands of bright dots of sea green, white and ultramarine. Now imagine the most obvious soundtrack anyone could possibly come up with in response
  
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