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• What, Aside From The Next Big Hit, Do Indie Distributors Look For When They Go To Cannes?

  28-05-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not things that would work easily in the comfort of your own home: "The very obvious, generic star packages [that look good] on paper no longer necessarily work at the box office; the generic is consumed online at home [on streaming platforms]. If you want to get people to go to a cinema, you really need to have something special, distinctive; it’s got to be an event, something that people talk about."
  
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• Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 05.28.17

  28-05-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  All the Poets: Rhiannon Giddens
  The second installment of my Los Angeles Review of Books — All the Poets, in which musicians discuss their literary influences — went up the other day: Rhiannon Giddens, who earned her reputation with ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2017-05-28
  How to Talk about Saving the NEA
  The President’s 2018 budget includes just enough funding for staff time required to shut down the NEA and NEH. Arts advocates and administrators have responded w
  
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• The Novelists Who Own Bookstores Tell Us What To Read This Summer

  28-05-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hey, good news: Novelist Emma Straub's "Books Are Magic is opening in the midst of a renaissance for independent booksellers. The American Booksellers Association counted 1,775 members around the country in 2016, up from 1,410 in 2010." (Now here's what to buy from them.)
  
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• Movie Credits Are Long, But Maybe They Should Be Even Longer

  28-05-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The history was that only the main players got credits - at the beginning of the film. Then the unions started to gain more clout, and "as productions grew more lavish and more complicated, more and more crew members were needed. But in the age of celluloid, studios had to be mindful of how long their credits would be. Film was more expensive to work with and process, so each added reel had an impact on the budget."
  
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• How Instagram Helped Poet Rupi Kaur Find Her Audience - And Sell 1.4M Books (So Far)

  28-05-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 24-year-old Canadian poet became famous when Instagram banned a self-portrait in which she was lying on her bed, with sheets stained by menstrual blood. That banning got her 1.3 million followers to the site, where she publishes poetry and illustrations. She credits social media for its openness: "I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student – but I knew I was never going to be picked up. All their writing was, you know, about the Canadian landscape or something.
  
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• The GIF, Which Transformed The Internet (And Sparked Millions Of Pronunciation Arguments), Turns 30

  28-05-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And, honestly, GIFs are living their best lives right now. "Twitter has a GIF button and even Apple added GIF search to its iOS messaging app. Such mainstream approval would have seemed unthinkable even a decade ago, when GIFs had the cultural cachet of blinking text and embedded MIDI files. But today they’re ubiquitous."
  
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• What Happened With Netflix And Baz Luhrman's 'The Get Down'?

  28-05-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though Netflix doesn't release numbers, the series was expensive - and, according to one analytics firm, not as "buzzy" either as other Netflix series, like "The Crown," or HBO's also-canceled music series, "Vinyl."
  
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• Old Vic, Nearby Pubs Evacuated Due To Terror Threat

  28-05-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tensions remain high after the bombing of a pop concert in Manchester. "On social media, theatregoers said they and the cast had been moved to the nearby Imperial War Museum gardens." The police later said the incident was "not suspicious" but didn't elaborate.
  
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• Russian Law Enforcement Targets A Controversial Theatre Director

  28-05-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This does not look good. "At the storm’s center is Kirill Serebrennikov, the virtuoso Russian stage director behind Moscow’s innovative, and often controversial, Gogol Center theater. ... With the company’s actors still detained by masked officers in the theater on Tuesday, hundreds of supporters from artist and journalist circles began gathering outside, among them former members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot and loyalist film directors like Fyodr Bandarchuk."
  
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• El Museo Del Barrio Fires A Senior Executive Who Raised Concerns

  28-05-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Berta Colón's letter to the board, in which she accused a co-executive of employee intimidation: "Staff is threatened with the possibility of being fired, they are pitted against each other. ... During this period of transition without an executive director, Carlos has created an environment that promotes distrust, fear of retaliation and isolation." And the museum's newly hired executive director may not yet have permission to work in the U.S.
  
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• The Agony Of Ballet Feet

  28-05-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Regular ballet slippers are no good for dancers' feet, and pointe shoes? Forget it. "While they may run, jump, squat, leap and pivot like any NBA star, dancers do it without shock absorption, arch support or any foot-comfort features whatsoever."
  
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• Why Did A Japanese Billionaire Decide To Spend $110 Million On A Basquiat?

  28-05-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yusaku Maezawa has a collection of Basquiats, and a lot of other art, and plans to open a museum in Japan to showcase it all - and to lend art to other museums as well. "Mr. Maezawa — who does not work with an art adviser — said he was driven entirely by his love of art and not financial investment. 'I just follow my instinct,' he said. 'When I think it’s good, I buy it.'"
  
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• A New Literary Museum That - Maybe! - Doesn't Just Recreate Inequities In U.S. History

  28-05-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Chicago’s new American Writers Museum: "If the idea is to curate — to present to the world, in some official capacity, the Most Important People in American Literary History — then the battle is unwinnable. There’s no way we’re all ever going to agree. We see certain writers as canonical because we were always told they were canonical."
  
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• When A Private Owner Of Looted Art Won't Return An Artwork, It Goes Up For Auction

  28-05-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the heirs of the pre-Nazi-looting owners: "We brokered a compromise, which we signed. It is not really satisfactory, but it is acceptable. It was the best that we could achieve. Ideally, it would have been returned in total to our family. That wasn’t possible, so we settled for what we could get."
  
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• Backwards story about nothing (really)

  28-05-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Let me tell you one story. The one that makes no sense and is nothing of particular importance but will surely entertain you. It happened a long time ago. Not so far away. Few months ago i’ve stumbled upon a curious article in Hyperallergic. It was about one peculiar episode from the dawn of sensationalist journalism. And it was beautiful self-contained imagination provoker.
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  The story goes: Once upon a time there were two of them.They were artists.They thought a lot.And then they&rsquo
  
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• A Movie Theatre In Austin Adds A 'Woman-Only' Screening of Wonder Woman, And A Lot Of Guys Freak. Out.

  28-05-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wow, did the Alamo Drafthouse stir up a hornets' nest. But hey. "'That providing an experience where women truly reign supreme has incurred the wrath of trolls only serves to deepen our belief that we're doing something right,' creative manager Morgan Hendrix told the publication. 'As a result, we will be expanding this program across the country and inviting women everywhere to join us as we celebrate this iconic superheroine in our theaters."
  
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• What Does Elena Ferrante Think About 'My Brilliant Friend' Being Adapted For The Screen?

  28-05-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a Q&A with the author, a New York Times journalist gets to ask her many questions about the process of watching her book turn into TV. Ferrante: "No real person will ever match the image that I or a reader have in our minds. This is because the written word, of course, defines but by nature leaves much to reader’s imagination. The visual image instead shrinks those margins. It is destined to always leave out something that the words inspire — something that always matters."
  
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• The Summer Music - Especially Opera - Competition In The UK Is Pretty Fierce

  28-05-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are betrayals, arguments, backstabbing ... and it's all good for those who love to watch classical music outside in the summer. "Rival conductors’ batons may not yet be clashing in combat, and it has not quite come to picnic-hampers-at-dawn, but there is a new and marked element of serious competition between the growing number of rivals."
  
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• Denis Johnson, Who Wrote Of The Down And Out And Desperate, And Inspired Thousands Of Other Writers, Has Died At 67

  28-05-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He published a book of poetry at 19 and got his degrees from the University of Iowa, but then addictions derailed him for years. "Mr. Johnson initially believed that sobriety would damage his creativity, but later realized that his addictions were not fueling much writing." When he got sober, he wrote many things, including Jesus' Son, a beloved book of linked short stories.
  
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• Talking With Singer Charlotte Church About Growing Up In The Spotlight

  28-05-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yikes. "Church, 31, has been famous for nearly all her life. The cautionary tabloid narrative is well-worn, and like most fairy stories it contains not a little misogyny. She became famous at 11 as the little girl who could sing arias, the 'Voice of an Angel'. She soon became public property."
  
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• The Guy Who Won The Mall Of America Writer In Residence Knew Just How To Get It

  28-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He's a poet, and he has to string together residencies and gigs like any poet: "The winner, a poet named Brian Sonia-Wallace, has also won a highly publicized Amtrak residency. And a closer inspection of his resume revealed he had also been an artist-in-residence for the city of Los Angeles and had held similar gigs with the National Park Service and even Dollar Shave Club."
  
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• Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave review – the mastery simply amazes

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  It wasn’t until his later years that the Japanese artist did his greatest work – the focus of this mesmerising showThe Great Wave – that stupendous blue breaker flexing its claws over a tiny Mount Fuji – is the most famous image in Japanese art. It deserves its universal popularity. Three little boats struggle against the roiling tide in a brilliant game of pictorial hide-and-seek that threatens to conceal the white-capped mountain as the wave freez
  
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• Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion review – nothing to be said but ‘wow’

  28-05-2017 09:00
  
  V&A, London
  Understatement brought matchless simplicity in the Spanish designer’s influential creations for the French fashion house, as this jaw-dropping exhibition revealsLooking at clothes of a certain vintage can be extraordinarily intimate. Once, after all, dresses and coats were cherished rather than disposable, irrespective of the wealth of their owners. If I understood this only vaguely as a child, thrilling to the touch of my grandmother’s homemade gowns, I felt it more
  
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• The hot list: what to do this summer

  28-05-2017 08:00
  
  From treetop spas to secret festivals, and ice cream doughnuts to quirky cocktails, here’s our ultimate guide to having fun this summer1 How could one possibly make a spa even more relaxing? Plop it in a forest. Outdoor spas are opening everywhere this summer: Aqua Sana are launching with Elemis at Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest. aquasana.co.uk2 Make some new feathered friends – buy Zara’s dust pink sandals. It’s an affordable way into the trend seen at Prada, Balenciaga
  
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