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• The Broad Museum’s Storage Vault Will Open (Some Of) The Unhung Collection To Visitors

  09-08-2015 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The vault was conceived as the heart of the $140-million museum. It allows the Broad to store or exhibit 99% of its nearly 2,000-object collection on-site, where it’s all surprisingly accessible to the staff. That’s a game-changer logistically for the museum, as planning exhibits and lending works to other institutions will be far easier, giving […]
  
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• Being An Irish Writer Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

  09-08-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Enright, who’s up for a second Booker Prize right now and is the first-ever laureate for Irish fiction: “Writers are never telling wonderful stories about Ireland, they’re telling interesting stories about Ireland, and Ireland doesn’t necessarily appreciate that. So for me to be accepted, for a female voice – with all the anxiety there […]
  
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• Filling Forgotten Niches In The Book World, And Making Money Doing It

  09-08-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New York Review Books, the publishing offshoot of the literary magazine The New York Review of Books, has made a specialty of rescuing and reviving all kinds of ignored or forgotten works in English or in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by writers renowned and obscure.”
  
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• Frank Gehry Is Focusing On The Water, Not Landmarks, For The L.A. River

  09-08-2015 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They came to see me and said they were heading up a committee for Mayor Garcetti and said we have this wonderful river, 51 miles, and that if we could brand it, give it visual coherence, it could become something special.”
  
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• Frank Gehry Is The Wrong Architect For The Revitalized Los Angeles River

  09-08-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not that he’s going to clad the entire 52 miles of river in hyper-reflective steel panels OH GOD PLEASE SAY NO. It’s just that Gehry’s work so rarely provides true public space and doesn’t show many gestures to the natural environment—both of which are the most important things the river will need to do.”
  
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• Dancers Who Age But Don’t Plan To Retire – Only To Change

  09-08-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was just theorizing that the only way performing will ever make sense is if I dance until I die. If I get a little done every year, at some point I’m going to be four generations older than the children dancing. Then, I think there will be a connection.”
  
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• The New CEO Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Has To Confront Attendance And Budget Issues

  09-08-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pittsburgh Symphony projects it will run another million-dollar-plus budget deficit this season, and has seen ticket sales fall to 50 percent for the classical subscription series and to 54 percent for the Pops. The symphony’s last balanced budgets were for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, before the financial sector meltdown.”
  
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• Why Do We Hate Tom Cruise, And Are We Just Deeply Wrong?

  09-08-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the beginning of his career, he’s been trying to get us to change our perception of him, but it never takes. How is the biggest movie star of the world hiding in plain sight? How do we all know his movies but we have no idea what’s happening in them? We picture them so […]
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Pleads With His Fans To Stop Filming ‘Hamlet’

  09-08-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Sherlock actor made his debut as Hamlet at the Barbican last week but found the distraction of red lights in the audience so ‘mortifying’ that he stepped outside the stage door after the show to ask the waiting throng for their help.”
  
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• Exploring Bitter History Through Sweet Romance

  09-08-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beverly Jenkins “says publishers liked her work, but couldn’t get their heads around a black historical novel that wasn’t based on slavery.”
  
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• Ready To Declare War On Hollywood (Or At Least Its Sexism)

  09-08-2015 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rose McGowan: “I feel really bad for that kid that I was who was discovered on a street corner at age 17 and a half. I got battered around, and it was a very treacherous place with no protection. I feel really bad for her, but what I’m trying to do is make it better […]
  
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• Ukraine Blacklists Artists, Including Gerard Depardieu, Who Support Pro-Russian Rebels

  09-08-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ukraine said they were a ‘threat to national security’ for supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and pro-Russian separatists in the east.” They may not appear on Ukranian TV, radio or movie screens for five years.
  
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• Indian YouTube Is Exploding In Popularity, Making Stars Of Unlikely Comedians And Vloggers

  09-08-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to the India Times, there’s a very real possibility India will have the largest number of Facebook users of any country by 2017. Also, WhatsApp’s user base broke 70 million in November of last year. That’s a lot of people sharing content. Put those figures next to the fact that between 2011 and 2013, […]
  
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• Why Don’t Kid Movies Have Kids In Them Anymore?

  09-08-2015 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The absence of live-action children’s movies featuring child actors in central roles is even more confusing when two other factors are considered: live-action movies tend to be cheaper (Toy Story 3 cost $200m to produce, whereas Home Alone only cost $18m), and child actors are not only everywhere, especially on TV, but are also arguably […]
  
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• Marion Whybrow obituary

  09-08-2015 16:26
  Art historian whose writing illuminated the story of the St Ives art colonyMarion Whybrow, who has died aged 83, was a knowledgable and sensitive writer of art history, biography, plays and fiction, whose best-known work, St Ives 1883-1993, Portrait of an Art Colony (1994), was the most comprehensive book of its kind. Her detailed, original research, empathy with the artists she wrote about and insight illuminated the subject. Her approach was both methodical and imaginative: she knew that this
  
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• Marion Whybrow

  09-08-2015 16:26
  Art historian whose writing illuminated the story of the St Ives art colonyMarion Whybrow, who has died aged 83, was a knowledgable and sensitive writer of art history, biography, plays and fiction, whose best-known work, St Ives 1883-1993, Portrait of an Art Colony (1994), was the most comprehensive book of its kind. Her detailed, original research, empathy with the artists she wrote about and insight illuminated the subject. Her approach was both methodical and imaginative: she knew that this
  
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• The CEO Of Joburg Ballet Is Suspended

  09-08-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  South Africa’s “largest ballet company said investigations have been carried out and have kicked up concerns about poor corporate governance, financial management and general oversight of the company.”
  
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• Cutting-edge science as you’ve never seen it before

  09-08-2015 09:15
  By viewing scientists at work in the lab as artistic, creative figures, photographer Dan Stier has created a surreal series that shows researchers in a whole new lightA woman marches towards the camera on a sloping treadmill, fists clenched. Above her head is a muddle of electrical cabling; behind her are walls of tinny, zigzagged metal and surrounding her is a pervasive sense of the 70s B-movie. Her shimmering silver spacesuit and custard-yellow hood are garish and camp, reminiscent of Roger Mo
  
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• Jean-Etienne Liotard; The Amazing World of MC Escher review – sparkling portraits and a rush of double-takes

  09-08-2015 09:00
  Perhaps the most amazing thing about Jean-Etienne Liotard’s profoundly observant, quick-fire pastel portraits is that they’ve never been properly shown in the UK – until nowThe little girl appears startled. Her mouth dangles in open curiosity. Too young to sit still, she shifts inside the stiff husk of her dress. She is so like the boy in the next picture – they both have the unformed features and white eyelashes of the young Boris Becker – you know they must be siblings, and sure enou
  
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• Photographer Steve Howse captures the machismo of Mexico's charreada

  09-08-2015 01:00
  
  On setting out for Mexico two years ago, Steve Howse hoped to capture the machismo essence of the country. He was not to be disappointed.
  
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• Klaus Frahm's The Fourth Wall: A new theatrical perspective - from the depths of backstage

  09-08-2015 01:00
  
  The fourth wall is the imaginary structure that runs across the front of a stage, allowing actors to inhabit their own world and ignore the audience – as if there is a wall between them. It's also the name of photographer Klaus Frahm's series of shots of theatres across his native Germany. Only in his work, the fourth wall is very visible: it is the auditorium itself.
  
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