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• Can David Foster Wallace Be Reclaimed From The Litbros?

  23-08-2015 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The more we talk about Wallace without talking about his work—which, of course, is the whole reason we’re here, talking about him—the more we aid in this false image of him as bro-lord. His fiction is thoughtful and daring and adventurous and sad and fun and difficult and complex.”
  
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• Ten Movies Where Older Actresses Like Lily Tomlin And Helen Mirren Kick Ass

  23-08-2015 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the statistics about roles for women over 40 are dismal at best, cinema has featured some unconventional, intelligent, and downright badass parts for world-wise women in film.”
  
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• Anna Shapiro Running Steppenwolf Theatre: Year Zero

  23-08-2015 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shapiro is a star of sorts, the company’s 35th ensemble member (and one of the few nonactors in that group), acclaimed for muscular, lyrical relationship studies, the kind where a chair or two gets thrown. She is a Tony Award winner whose production of ‘August: Osage County’ remains intrinsic to Steppenwolf’s identity. Advance ticket sales alone for ‘Fish in the Dark; ($14.5 million) were about the same as Steppenwolf’s annual operating budget. And for
  
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• Ten Lessons From The Theatre World On How To Start A Diversity And Inclusion Program Without Screwing It Up

  23-08-2015 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “4. Walk through the entire program through the lens of those you are inviting into your theatre or organization. What would you see? What would you experience? What does it feel like to be as a person of color and walk into your institution? An easy way to feel tokenized is when you are the only one at an institution.”
  
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• Writer Nalo Hopkinson On The 21st Century And A Lot More

  23-08-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Who’s your favourite villain in literature, and why?”“Frankenstein’s monster, because he’s right: Victor Frankenstein is an entitled dick who doesn’t care about the humanity of his creation.”
  
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• There’s Just So Much TV To Watch (Is It OK To Skip Some?)

  23-08-2015 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Binge-watching isn’t just the new sex — it’s the new workout, the new book club, the new cocktail hour. Where once most new shows premiered in the fall, now they drop all the time, some in complete seasons. Announcements of new programming from clever upstarts Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Acorn feel like pop-culture air-raid sirens: ‘Citizens, seek shelter: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ is descending.’ Of course, we want to see it, but, oh, my God, wh
  
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• The Wurlitzer Organ Sounds Again In A UK Cinema After A 55-Year Silence

  23-08-2015 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s stunning,’ said Andrew Barham, one of the team that has been working on the organ. ‘When there are no chairs and just the dance floor, it blows your socks off.'”
  
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• This Physicist Is Saving Music

  23-08-2015 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of those delicate things are wax cylinders, lacquer and metal disks, plastic belts and even sheets of tin foil—cutting-edge technology from the past. The sounds that they hold include early, experimental voice recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell and his father in the 1880s.”
  
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• Dissident Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera Is Free After 8 Months Of Detention, Back In The U.S.

  23-08-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Performance artist Tania Bruguera, who had her passport confiscated in Cuba after trying to stage a performance about freedom of expression in a public plaza in Havana, is back in the U.S., according to a statement issued by #YoTambienExijo, the art and activism program run by Bruguera and her sister Deborah.”
  
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• Remade in Dagenham: how the arts are helping the borough celebrate its past

  23-08-2015 10:30
  The Essex border town that was synonymous with the Ford factory and pharmaceuticals is changing rapidly, as Joanne O’Connor discovered when she revisited the place she grew up inEarlier this month, Barking and Dagenham was voted the worst place to live in Britain. The survey, carried out by property website Rightmove, asked residents in 130 places to rate their neighbourhoods and the borough came 130th. It’s perhaps not the most groundbreaking piece of research ever carried out
  
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• Josh Kline: Freedom; Kiki Kogelnik. Fly Me to the Moon review – an unnerving fantasy world and off-the-peg identities

  23-08-2015 10:30
  Modern Art Oxford
  From Teletubby riot police to jailed politicians weeping over the war in Iraq, Josh Kline offers a nightmarish dystopia of recent western follyThe first solo show of Josh Kline, a 35-year-old New York-based artist, is in part a Stop the War Coalition fantasy world. In a darkened room in Oxford, for the next two months, Tony Blair will sit, face to camera, in a grey prison jump suit and unburden himself of his war crimes on a loop. “Oh, my God!” he will cry, in
  
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• Wurlitzer pipe organ: Historic instrument sounds again in UK cinema after 55-year absence

  23-08-2015 01:25
  
  Inside the darkened auditorium of the Troxy in Stepney, east London, it sounds as though an orchestra is in full swing. But the tremendous noise, which seems to be emanating from the very walls of the Art Deco cinema, is being made by one man playing a remarkable and historic instrument.
  
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• Could a German spark a renaissance in the revered temple of Italian art?

  23-08-2015 01:04
  Italy is having a cultural revolution – and art historian Eike Schmidt, the first non-Italian to become director of the Uffizi in Florence, wants to transform the running of the nation’s heritageA hapless line of tourists stands in silence under the columns of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, wearily enduring a two-hour wait before they can reach the entrance of Italy’s most celebrated art museum.In a crass embrace of Florence’s reputation as a capital of romance, they ar
  
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• Santa Muerte: New photography book focuses on the devotees of the unorthodox religion

  23-08-2015 01:00
  In a country where many believe the church to be corrupt, Mexicans are turning in their droves to an unorthodox religion: Santa Muerte. Meaning "Holy Death" or "Saint Death", it has been around for centuries, but it is only over the past decade that it has become so popular – and therefore a cause of concern to the establishment.
  
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• Snapshots: World of felt

  23-08-2015 00:59
  Artist Lucy Sparrow spends her days sewing in her “felt cave” on a sprawling farm in the Essex countryside, where she makes everything from tins of Spam to Prozac pills, from googly-eyed molotov cocktails to dildos. Things really took off last year with her installation in London’s Bethnal Green, Cornershop, which was an entire store full of felt items, followed this year by Warmongery, her installation of felt weapons at Boxpark in Shoreditch. “Part of the appeal of my i
  
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