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• Is Binge-Viewing Going Out Of Style?

  10-08-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hulu’s head of content: “With all of our new originals, we will release episodes weekly. … We want to give viewers the opportunity to discover their favorite shows every week. Like you, we value the shared experience and the joy of the watercooler that is television.”
  
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• What If You Don’t Want Your New Musical Theatre Singers To Sound Like Idina Menzel?

  10-08-2015 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vocal training for classical music and vocal training for musical theater need different foci, to an extent. Each requires meticulous attention to a separate set of performance traditions.”
  
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• Committing Fiber Arts (AKA Knitting) In Public As A Radical Act

  10-08-2015 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People consistently underestimate the power of knitting,” says Sewell. “They don’t recognize its radical properties. They’re always surprised when they talk to us about what why we’re knitting, like, ‘Is she talking about racism right now? Did she really just say ‘police brutality?'”
  
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• Honolulu Art Museum Sues Collector for Donating Smuggled Art Worth $1.3 M.

  10-08-2015 21:18 via artnews.com
  On July 31, the Honolulu Art Museum sued the collector Joel Alexander Greene after he failed to establish provenance for five works he had donated to the Hawaiian museum’s collection, Courthouse News reports. The works, which all came from Southeast … Read More
  
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• Honoring Community Theatre

  10-08-2015 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are living in an age when we get to choose our communities. I could be a sports fan, or a gamer, or build houses for Habitat for Humanity, or a zillion other things. But my real friends, my chosen family, my loved ones, they almost all do theatre. Many of them get paid. Many […]
  
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• When Romance Goes Massively Wrong

  10-08-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A romantic novel in which a ‘blonde and blue-eyed Jewess’ falls in love with an SS-Kommandant in Theresienstadt concentration camp has caused outrage and offence in the romance writing community after it was shortlisted for two top awards.”
  
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• Galerie Patrick Seguin to Open London Branch

  10-08-2015 20:35 via artnews.com
  In October 2015, Paris’s Galerie Patrick Seguin will open a second location, in London, a rep for the gallery told ARTnews. At about 700 square feet (or 65 square meters), the new London space will be smaller than the gallery’s 3,2229 … Read More
  
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• Summer Colors: Jesse Wine at Limoncello, Alex Olson at Laura Bartlett Gallery

  10-08-2015 20:09 via artnews.com
  Summer is upon London and this usually grey city is full of sunshine and light. Complementing the temperature rise, two exhibitions, one by Jesse Wine at Limoncello and the other by Alex Olson at Laura Bartlett Gallery have added visual … Read More
  
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• When Japanese Manga Started To Deal With Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  10-08-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The children in the story, drawn in the typical doe-eyed style of Japanese comics, are suddenly blinded by broken glass, burned alive and maddened by pain and grief.”
  
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• Denver Art Museum Hires Florence Müller as Curator of Textile Art, Curator of Fashion

  10-08-2015 20:05 via artnews.com
  Florence Müller, a curator and historian of fashion and art, has been named the Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art, Curator of Fashion by the Denver Art Museum. Müller starts in the position in September and will, according to a … Read More
  
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• Shakespeare’s Pipes Test Positive For Cannabis (Seriously)

  10-08-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pipes from Shakespeare’s garden might have been used to smoke pot, but they tested negative for cocaine, which was also consumed by some in the playwright’s era. ‘Shakespeare may have been aware of the deleterious effects of cocaine as a strange compound,’ Thackeray writes. ‘Possibly, he preferred cannabis as a weed with mind-stimulating properties.'”
  
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• San Juan’s Roberto Paradise Gallery Is Set to Move

  10-08-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  After two months of construction, San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Roberto Paradise gallery is set to open at a new location on Roberto H. Todd Avenue in the Santurce district on August 20.Roberto Paradise director and artist Francisco Rovira Rullán, who founded the gallery in 2011 told ARTnews in … Read More
  
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• ‘Anonymous Drawings’ at Galerie Nord

  10-08-2015 18:32 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Anonymous Drawings” is currently on view at Galerie Nord in Berlin. It features 600 drawings donated by artists from around the world. The show will be on view until Saturday, … Read More
  
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•  15 photographs of London pavement paraphernalia

  10-08-2015 15:39
  
  London is a city full of surprises, an uneven, capricious mess of stone cathedrals and international mobile SIM stands. Artful sculptures and graffiti saying ‘tits’.
  
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• Spanish artists flood the streets of Madrid with drachma

  10-08-2015 14:54
  In a short-lived installation, Luzinterruptus celebrated the no vote from the recent referendum on economic reform and the erstwhile Greek currencyInside a hybrid ballot box-cash machine, dozens of voting slips from the recent Greek referendum, each meticulously marked oxi, were visible behind a clear panel. And, for every oxi – or no – vote deposited, drachmas were dispensed, spilling onto the streets of Madrid.We wanted to celebrate the chance that cash machines in Greece could have their
  
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• Morning Links: Broad Museum Vault Edition

  10-08-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
  John Latham’s Flat Time House in London, which the artist refers to as a “living sculpture studio home,” will close next year. [The Art Newspaper]The Broad Museum will soon offer visitors a glimpse into the art stored in their vault, beyond … Read More
  
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• If you do one thing this week ... have a clay day

  10-08-2015 08:00
  Get together with a group of friends to squish clay into pots and bowls, and let your minds and conversation wanderSomething happens when you work with clay. Moving your hands all the time - kneading, pinching, splatting, balling it up and starting again - your mind shifts into a different gear. It drifts lazily from one idea to the next, then loops back to the clay again, bringing you back into the moment. Do it with friends, and you find that conversation is the same: sporadic and aimless, swi
  
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