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• São Paulo biennial artists embrace uncertainty in an unstable world

  04-09-2016 23:00
  Since the Bienal de So Paulo curator Jochen Volz and his team began discussing its theme and title, Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), in 2014, the country has gone through upheaval; large-scale corruption scandals, economic recession and mass public protests have plagued the nation.  The theme has become sharper and sharper, and very relevant to the daily political situation in Brazil, Volz says. Systems we took for granted are no longer good enough. He adds: Its very clear that capitalis
  
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• Writer Ann Patchett Says Authors Need To Buckle Down And Save Their Industry

  04-09-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When customers visit the bookstore and tell her Amazon is cheaper: ‘I’m like, ‘You cannot come in, soak up what we have, talk to the staff, get recommendations, then go home and buy the book on Amazon. If you do, I will hunt you down and smack you around.'”
  
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• A Video Game Artist Finds Inspiration In External Limitations

  04-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Janice Chu, who’s working on the sequel to The Lego Movie and a lot more: “It’s a fun challenge thinking with constrained rules. … It’s definitely a different way of thinking which is awesome.”
  
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• What One Pianist Would Do If He Were A Prommer, Not A Performer

  04-09-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s great to be on stage facing such an overwhelming – in a good way! – crowd. And it’s a unique audience because those at the front in the arena are standing. It’s a very interesting atmosphere for an artist to experience.”
  
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• The Problem With Having Non-Trans Actors Playing Trans People In Films

  04-09-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hollywood is having a very difficult time letting go of the idea that putting a male actor in a dress, wig and makeup is an accurate portrayal of a transgender woman.”
  
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• Want To Know More About Islam, Muslims And Western Film?

  04-09-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Use the long weekend to read this four-part series from RogerEbert.com, covering everything from exoticization to contemporary depictions of Muslims in the U.S.
  
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• Learning To Dance Again After A Near-Death Experience

  04-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two qualities that were essential to Rodríguez as an artist proved crucial as he fought his way back. One was the discipline from a lifetime of dance training, which helped him persist with tedious physical and speech therapy despite frequent frustration and physical pain. The other was his drive to express himself, which he poured out in painting when he could not dance.”
  
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• Idea: Jail Time For People With Overdue Library Books

  04-09-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Library director Paula Laurita said the harsh new rules were necessary because offenders were effectively stealing from the library and taxpayers.”
  
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• Wells Fargo Slams The Arts In Its Ads – And Is Called To Account By Theatre People

  04-09-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yeah, not a great look, Wells Fargo. (The bank apologized later.)
  
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• The War Poets Of The Middle East

  04-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their verse combines to create a devastating but richly composed verbal landscape that it is at once epic and intensely human. Raw and lyrical, of the moment but seeped in the memories of their people, immediate and for ever.”
  
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• The New Museum Creates A Pop-Up Support For Black Lives Matter Artists

  04-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The event had ‘a proactive spirit, and we intend on continuing this work in some iteration, so that it’s not reactive,’ said Kameelah Janan Rasheed, an interdisciplinary artist who contributed to the installation.”
  
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• The Guy Who Replaced Lin-Manuel Miranda As Alexander Hamilton

  04-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Javier asks if I’d like to see his garden. He keeps one on the roof of the marquis of the Richard Rodgers theater, so that he could be alone for a few minutes on performance days, and so that he could watch things grow.”
  
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• Actress Who Was Raped, And Whose Character In The Film Is Raped, Speaks Out About Director Nate Parker

  04-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I took this part in this film to talk about sexual violence. To talk about this stain that lives on in our psyches. I know these conversations are uncomfortable and difficult and painful. But they are necessary.”
  
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• Making Art About Facebook Posts From Dead People

  04-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Sunday, I attended my funeral. It was a short ceremony, held in a small auditorium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The pastor who led it made note of my professional accomplishments. He also cited my habit of eating straight out of the bulk bins at Sprouts.”
  
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• A Journalist Works On A Story So Depressing She Has To Turn It Into A YA Series

  04-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She was assigned to edit a haunting news story by Emily Wax about women in India whose husbands, sons and brothers had been disappeared by state police.”
  
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• Two Death Eaters From ‘Harry Potter’ Have A Conversation

  04-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All coincidences probably come to think of it. We’re definitely the good guys here. We’re doing the right thing for everyone.”
  
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• How Opera Is Bringing Healing To Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal

  04-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Managing everyday life in post-earthquake Nepal was difficult for everyone, but the arts community was hit especially hard. Many lost their livelihoods.”
  
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• Explaining The Conditional Love Song In Musicals, Flowchart And All

  04-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the conditional love song is a solo, the real subversions begin.”
  
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• When Photographs Were Colored By Hand

  04-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the days when black-and-white photography reigned, professional colorists took on the task of creating technicolor views by meticulously painting pictures by hand.”
  
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• Wait, Were The Critically Panned DC Movies Just A Way To Sell An Ungodly Number Of Comics?

  04-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unburdened by the often complicated superhero continuity, a good reboot can both entice new readers and excite current fans, while goosing the bottom line. Or it can blow up in their face.”
  
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• The Young Pope: Trailer sees Jude Law cook up scandal in Paolo Sorrentino's new TV series

  04-09-2016 11:16
  
  The actor stars as Pius XIII in the Great Beauty director's English-language drama series
  
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• Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison review – a momentous Artangel project

  04-09-2016 09:00
  
  HMP Reading prison
  Artists and writers honour Oscar Wilde’s prison years in a series of works that explore the agony of isolationCell C22 is scarcely bigger than the narrow bed and table it contains. A bucket in the corner, in Oscar Wilde’s time, turned his “numbered tomb” into a foul latrine. The window is shockingly high, so that the prisoner can see nothing of the outer world but a fraction of sky, and even this freedom is qualified. “With bars they blur the grac
  
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• Dundee: 'A little pot of gold at the end of the A92'

  04-09-2016 08:00
  
  The city on the silvery Tay is often derided, but it has much to offer – not least its art, says Debbie Lawson, who has just added to its treasures
  I was just “a wee scrap”, as my father would say, when we left the north east coast of Scotland for the south coast of England. Dad is from London, but after six years living in Dundee he was pretty much bilingual.Then he joined the army and for the next decade my brother and I were shunted around various military bases, clocking up
  
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• New York artists respond to 9/11

  04-09-2016 04:37
  
  The day after the 15th anniversary of the 11 September attacks, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York opens an exhibition that looks at artists reactions to the event and its lingering legacy.
   
  Thirteen artists, all of whom have direct ties to New York and some of who were directly affected by the attacks, are represented in Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11 (opening 12 September). Among them is Christopher Saucedo, whose brother, a firefighter, died in the North Tower
  
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• Untitled(another black man not far ahead of me was yelling to feel himself or to resist the emptiness he may have felt.)

  04-09-2016 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i was sitting in the dark. i preferred to sit and not look at a screen and not to lie down. i had been lying down. it made my heart murmur worse when i lay down for too long. i decided to take a walk late at night. a young black man with a black hood sweat shirt appeared. he had a big smart phone. we walked next to, behind, and in front of each other. the black modern building on the east side of the burnside bridge looked like a stealth bomber. i wanted to say something but i also didn’t
  
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• Yes, great art. Can I go now? | Victoria Coren Mitchell

  04-09-2016 01:07
  
  Pictures bore me. Sculpture leaves me cold. Thank goodness other people enjoy going to galleriesWhy do people go to art galleries? For me, it’s to improve the taste of a cup of tea.This is something my mother taught me, early in life, about buying clothes. If you make a successful visit to a clothes shop, you can have tea and cake afterwards. Continue reading...
  
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