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• London art world joins weekend of protest

  22-01-2017 22:00
  
  As protests across the globe erupted against the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and the general climate of repression, restriction, prejudice and woe, the London art world was in the thick of it all. First off, early on the morning of Inauguration Day (20 January), the artist Conrad Shawcross made his contribution to the Build Bridges Not Walls campaign by unfurling a giant banner declaring migration is as old as language along Westminster Bridge in the shadow of the Houses of Parlia
  
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• Clitbait: 10 things you didn't know about the clitoris

  22-01-2017 21:39
  
  The Glitoris is not only Amanda Palmer’s No 1 artwork in the fight against fascism, it’s also an educational tool, says Australian artist Alli Sebastian WolfOn Saturday night, Alli Sebastian Wolf delivered a sex-ed lesson in one of the world’s most famous performance venues. The Australian artist was pulled on to the stage of the Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall at the request of the musician Amanda Palmer, who had seen Wolf’s recent piece “Glitoris” on
  
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• Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 01.22.17

  22-01-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who’s responsible for The Donald? The Founding Fathers.
  My cousin Jonathan’s witty Protest Banner Last Friday Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. Across the world this weekend millions, mostly women, have marched to protest the event. It is already ... read more
  AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-01-22Reflections on a Half Century
  His mother was a model. He was a 26-year-old officer driving around the jungle, giving bonus pay to his fellow Marines.
  
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• Eugene Opera Suspends Current Season, Tries 'Town Halls' To Figure Out What's Next

  22-01-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Eugene Opera completed two of its four planned productions for what was billed as its 40th anniversary season. ... The remainder of the season — 'West Side Story,' planned for March, and 'La Tragedie de ­Carmen,' planned for May — have been canceled."
  
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• Indie Movie Theatres Are Somehow Having A Cultural Revival

  22-01-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Frankly, it's a bit surprising, but here's the deal: "From themed weddings to live-streamed operas and interactive movie nights, indie theatres are reinventing themselves as the new entertainment hubs on the high street – eating into the market share of the multiplex giants and in-home rivals such as Netflix and Amazon Prime."
  
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• When A Writer Says She Wants To Be Famous, The Lit World Has Questions

  22-01-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ottessa Moshfegh: "I think that’s what I’m interested in, this question of whether or not we are allowed to be other people. Are we allowed to change? Do we give ourselves permission to grow? Are we even capable of making those kinds of decisions? Is there a will, or are we just being pushed around by our own personalities, just fucked to be who we are?"
  
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• The First Saturday Night Live Monologue Of The Trump Presidency

  22-01-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aziz Ansari, creator and star of the Netflix show Master of None, went directly at issues around the election. "They should do a second report about some other brown people that are just up to normal stuff — just to calm those people down. So the reports are like: 'The suspects are considered armed and dangerous. Not armed and dangerous — these four other Muslim people that are eating nachos in Chicago. Let’s go to footage of them. Uh-oh, looks like Nasir just spilled a little
  
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• The Tiny Movie Company That Has Skyrocketed To Success

  22-01-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A24 is "a relatively tiny entertainment company that has somehow carved out a spot for itself at Hollywood’s upper end while also remaining a resolute outsider" - and it has a bizarre list of movies to its credit: Spring Breakers, Witch, Room, Ex Machina, and 2016's Moonlight.
  
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• Bristol street artists work with city on legal graffiti walls

  22-01-2017 17:53
  
  Artists in Banksy’s home city want to cooperate with council to establish network of walls on which they can legally create public artThere has long been tension between the street artists of Bristol, the home of Bansky, and the authorities. Now a crackdown on litter, waste and graffiti by Bristol’s mayor has prompted some street artists to agree to work openly with the city council to create a network of legal walls where they can create their pieces without fear of prosecution. Str
  
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• How Is That Dutch Virtual Reality Ballet Doing?

  22-01-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Things are going well for the ballet, which "opened" in September 2016: "So far, Night Fall has been a success, and not just with art critics. It has garnered attention from tech blogs and dance publications alike, bringing a diverse crowd together."
  
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• Former AFTRA Retirement Fund Exec Arrested For Stealing $3.4 Million

  22-01-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wow: "The U.S. Dept. of Justice alleged that [Enrico] Rubano and [Shivanand] Maharaj allegedly used companies they owned or controlled to submit invoices to the AFTRA Retirement Fund for information technology services that they did not perform. The scam resulted in Rubano and Maharaj takingabout $3.4 million from the scheme from 2009 to 2015."
  
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• Can A Play Influence The Wider Debate Around Abortion Rights?

  22-01-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lisa Loomer's play "Roe," commissioned for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, opened at D.C.'s Arena Stage just days before the inauguration of Donald Trump. It's a story of the history of Norma McCorvey (the "Roe" of the court case) and her lawyer Sarah Weddington - and shifting stances on abortion in the U.S. since Roe was decided. The question now is, "Can art actually shape history as well as mine it?"
  
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• What's It Like To Be Set On Fire For Art?

  22-01-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stuntwomen reveal all, or at least what they can say to the NYT without losing work: "Your mind has to overcome your body. If I’m standing on a building and I have to do a high fall, every part of my brain says, 'Don’t do this.' But then they say 'Action!' and my body goes into autopilot. You override something that’s not natural for human beings."
  
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• Some Artists On The (Humongous) Los Angeles Women's March

  22-01-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catherine Opie sums it up for some of the artists who joined the estimated 750,000 people marching and protesting on Saturday: "Artists need to bring that voice of opposition to this cause — with every drop of blood and every tear."
  
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• Why Can't Britain Accept And Embrace Its Classical Heritage?

  22-01-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simon Rattle: "Here we are in this country, with maybe the most gifted group of living composers of any country in the world, and not to celebrate it would be idiocy. ... It’s a goldmine to explore."
  
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• Adrift in a dreamworld – the genius of Michael Andrews makes us doubt our own eyes

  22-01-2017 16:00
  
  He left behind 1950s Soho to spraypaint wondrous landscapes full of rocks, shadows and mystery. This show finally captures the brilliance of Michael AndrewsIn his painting The Colony Room I, Michael Andrews pays homage to two giants of British art. You can’t miss them. One is a short, orange-haired figure in a bomber jacket turned away from us with his paunch spilling out of his trousers. This is unmistakably Francis Bacon. “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friend
  
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• How Can Theatre Lead The Way Forward In 2017?

  22-01-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's time for a lot more documentary theatre. "Every human being is specific and we must tell stories that acknowledge and celebrate this inimitability. Specificity is our only hope to connect, co-exist, and break down the barriers that we believe divide us."
  
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• How Los Angeles' Immense Women's March Showed (Off) City Planning In Entirely New Ways

  22-01-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Grand Park could handle the numbers, while Pershing Square ... let's just say it had some issues. And don't ask about intersections: "This was a sign, perhaps, that the size of the march had caught the Los Angeles Police Department and other officials by surprise; otherwise this intersection would have been closed to cars far earlier."
  
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• By The Time They're Five Months Old, Babies Already Know What They Think Is Funny

  22-01-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  That's sort of young. "So how do they do it? Like children and adults, infants appear to rely on two key features to detect funniness."
  
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• The Internet Of Things Is Coming For Humanity

  22-01-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take a hint from the art of the Moche people: "Order gives way to chaos. The internet of things turns on its makers."
  
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• Lubaina Himid: Invisible Strategies; Tschabalala Self review – history and mystery

  22-01-2017 09:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford; Parasol Unit, London
  Zanzibar is never far away in the rich, dynamic work of British artist Lubaina Himid, while New York’s Tschabalala Self cuts to the chaseAnyone who thinks black artists have long been stinted in this country, or that our museums cling to the same few names – Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen, Yinka Shonibare – might take heart this year. The tides appear to be changing. Next month, the ICA has a retrospective of the multimedia artist Sonia Boyce
  
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• Untitled(he didn’t only want peace. the only way he knew how to have have joy was by killing his adversary.)

  22-01-2017 02:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he has on an orange brown shirt. he cut his hair short. his wife is wide and thick.they have a small vehicle and a small boy. he does the laundry. i have seen him with a cardboard box heading to the shed by highway 440. we don’t talk. we meet each other’s gaze. he does what i want him to do and no more. i don’t think he likes me. i like myself when i see him. i don’t think he has dreams. he doesn’t believe in hope. he goes to his wife. she opens her mouth and he get
  
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• Untitled(in my dreams the giant and i struggle for power. i travel the stairs of his two lofts. there are giants with ax blades, dwarfs, and shifting shapes and gales. )

  22-01-2017 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  alexis has her head wrapped in a piece of cloth. she has acne on her chin.the constant battle is fatigue, alexis said. i got herbs for my brain.alexis takes off the cloth. her hair is wet and long. her teeth are short and black.i’m stopping coffee, alexis said.alexis was in whole foods for four hours  she doesn’t look as skinny as she did. i think she has been eating, but i can’t be sure.alexis spent her last four dollars. she wants me to give her more money.she bought new
  
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