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• The Mysterious Practice-Room Pianist Who Could Mirror Anyone's Repertoire

  07-01-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It is kind of unusual when you have the opportunity to transform these moments when you're in the cell of a practice room by yourself into a moment actually of communication or connection."
  
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• Dear New York Times: Um, Here's What An Actual Sensitivity Reader Does

  07-01-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2014, calls started to spike for more diverse books. And publishing houses and writers responded - with white writers writing more books about people of color. Dhonielle Clayton, who co-founded We Need Diverse Books and the Cake Literary Agency and who has a book of her own coming out in February, says the freak-out about sensitivity readers should really be focused there: "The fact is that sensitivity reading is a band-aid over a hemorrhaging problem in our industry. That’s what we sho
  
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• French Singer, Eurovision Winner France Gall Dies At 70

  07-01-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The singer, whose ending of a relationship with another singer inspired the French song that eventually turned into Frank Sinatra's "My Way," recorded her first hit when she was 16 and won Eurovision for Luxembourg in 1965.
  
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• National Society Of Film Critics Gives Its Awards, Many Of Them To 'Lady Bird'

  07-01-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Greta Gerwig won for direction and screenplay; Laurie Metcalf for supporting actress; and the movie itself won best movie from the 59 critics who vote in these awards. "Get Out" was quite close to winning both best screenplay and best picture as well. (See all the results in the article.)
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts From The Weekend 01.07.18

  07-01-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Recent Listening: Django Bates TrioDjango Bates’ Belovèd, The Study Of Touch (ECM) Following his engrossing participation in Anouar Brahem’s Blue Maqams, pianist Bates returns to ECM with his trio in nine of his compositions, a Charlie ... read moreAJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-01-05
  Intersession Deaccession: AAM and AAMD Issue Joint Statement Deploring the La Salle SalesAs they did in the ongoing Berkshire Museum saga, the American Alliance for Museums a
  
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• How Will The 2018 Golden Globes Play Out?

  07-01-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, there's the everyone wearing black to protest sexual assault in Hollywood part; there's the no-Trump-jokes from host Seth Myers part; and then there are the awards themselves. "The annual Oscar race, which starts with festival screenings in late summer, has been unusually chaotic this time around. For various reasons — Hollywood’s attention has been elsewhere, the plethora of strong choices in some categories and few in others — consensus has yet to form. So the Globes co
  
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• The 'Grandfather Of Diversity' In Ballet

  07-01-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arthur Mitchell "was inspired to form Dance Theater after the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But before that, Mr. Mitchell broke the color wall in ballet by becoming the first African-American principal dancer at New York City Ballet." He has always "been driven by the belief that dance can effect social change."
  
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• Ethics and the Empire under the spotlight | Letters

  07-01-2018 20:17
  Professor Philip Murphy on Nigel Biggar’s ‘Ethics and Empire’ project; Harvey Sanders on Francesco Guardi’s Rialto Bridge painting; and DBC Reed on the slave trade pushing up 18th century property pricesIan Jack’s article on Professor Nigel Biggar’s “Ethics and Empire” project (The sun may never set on British misconceptions of our lost empire, 6 January) misses an intriguing mystery. Jack suggests that an article in the Times about colonialism by
  
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• Will Kurt Schwitters' Last Art Studio - A Stone Barn In Britain's Lake District - Be Bought And Shipped To China?

  07-01-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The building's owner has failed to win funds to keep the building up - and after five attempts, it seems impossible. Why it's important: "The Merz Barn in Langdale, Cumbria, was used by the German artist Kurt Schwitters, after he fled from the Nazis in 1940. The building became regarded as a pioneering piece of modernist art after Schwitters covered its walls in a distinctive collage of materials before his death in 1948."
  
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• Author Carmen Maria Machado On Writing Sex Scenes In Her Literary, Genre-Crossing Short Stories

  07-01-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Machado's debut book, Her Body and Other Parties was a finalist for the National Book Award, and she was interviewed by the Paris Review about it as well. So of course The Guardian asks her about writing sex. "What's the secret?" the paper asks. The reply: "Letting some sex scenes be pleasurable, letting bodies be real."
  
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• What's The Legacy Of A 15-Year Alternative Art Space Experiment In Los Angeles' Echo Park?

  07-01-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's a lot to remember, a lot that the Machine Project inspired. "Machine Project leaves behind a vibrant legacy. Over its existence, the organization collaborated with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on a series of strange-funny performances, and it once organized an architectural tour of L.A. led by artist Cliff Hengst channeling the ghost of Whitney Houston. 'It was this heavily researched architecture tour,' says Allen. 'But it was also this heavily researched story about Whitney Hou
  
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• Bel Canto Star Lawrence Brownlee Commissioned A New Song Cycle To Fit Modern Reality

  07-01-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The winner of 2017's male singer of the year at the International Opera awards says, "You can’t blind-cast with opera. No one has ever turned me down for a part and said ‘Because he’s black’ or even ‘Because he’s small and black!’ but there’s a code I’ve come to understand – ‘We have a different idea for the role’ is a common one. Change is slow, across the classical world."
  
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• The Latest 'Black Mirror' Explains Just How Toxic Pop Culture Fandom Can Be

  07-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it lovingly sends up Star Trek, the show also shows viewers "what emerges as a core theme of the episode: When you become a toxic fan, you become the villain of your favorite shows, games or comics, instead of the hero."
  
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• Honey, Hollywood Shrank The ... Everything, And Here's How [VIDEO]

  07-01-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's a long history of movie magic, thought it's gotten easier in recent years with green screens. But "ever since Pretorius put ballerinas and kings behind glass in Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, filmmakers have used many different methods to make people appear small onscreen."
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Sued For Spying On Actress Who Says He Raped Her

  07-01-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is complex, but stick with the story of one lawyer suing another lawyer, and Weinstein, in order to kick a D.A.'s investigation back into full gear: "Filler told Variety that he brought the suit in part to determine why the Manhattan D.A.’s probe of de la Huerta’s rape allegations appears to have stalled. 'Our purpose is to investigate what caused the N.Y. D.A. criminal investigation and criminal prosecution to stall, and to call TWC/HW to account if they used extra-legal means
  
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• A Burnt 1600-Year-Old Text Gets An X-Ray, And New Life

  07-01-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The codex was written between 400 and 600 AD, in southern Egypt. "The charred codex was purchased by the Morgan Library in 1962. But no one has opened it for fear of destroying it: The brittle pages have been fused together by a cinder that sank through much of the book, congealing the parchment fibers. Unlike famous codices that have their own names, like the Codex Sinaiticus, this one is known humbly as M.910."
  
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• Bringing Anna Deavere Smith's Eerily Contemporary Play About Rodney King To Britain, More Than 20 Years Later

  07-01-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The play's director says: "“It’s shocking how cyclical it all is. ... The same problems that existed 25 years ago still exist. And that is down to a lack of platform for a diverse range of voices. Not having that platform means we can’t have the right discussions."
  
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• Historic Merz Barn art studio could move from Lake District to China

  07-01-2018 15:44
  Stone building used by influential German artist Kurt Schwitters may be sold due to lack of funds to maintain it, owners sayA stone barn in the Lake District, which was the final studio of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, could be moved to China if funding is not found to maintain it, its owners have said.The Merz Barn in Langdale, Cumbria, was used by the German artist Kurt Schwitters, after he fled from the Nazis in 1940. The building became regarded as a pioneering pi
  
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• In 2017, All Three Top-Grossing Hollywood Films Were Led By Women

  07-01-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Interesting, in the year of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. "You could argue that in a year when powerful men were named and shamed, it is fitting that powerful women are to the fore. Maybe it is a coincidence, not least when you consider how long it takes for a film to be made. But bear in mind, the last time the top three films were fronted by women was back in 1958."
  
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• Betty Woodman, Who Turned Pottery Into A Multimedia Art Practice, Has Died At 87

  07-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Woodman bucked trends in high school and beyond. She was the first women artist to be alive when she got a retrospective at the Met in 2006. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote at the time, "At the age of 76, she is beyond original, all the way to sui generis."
  
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• Could 'Moby Dick' Help Get Humans To Mars?

  07-01-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OK, sure, why not? "The parallels between the whaling industry and deep human spaceflight are striking. Voyages to the South Seas usually lasted between two and four years, mirroring almost exactly the timeframes associated with a roundtrip journey to Mars. Whalers worked in confined conditions aboard their floating factories, often going months at a time without setting foot on land, prefiguring the cramped space capsules being considered for Mars missions."
  
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• The Wikipedia Rabbit Hole We All Fall Down After Watching 'The Crown'

  07-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, this is fun to know: "Traffic to the queen’s Wikipedia page peaked on Dec. 10, when the second season of 'The Crown' started streaming. The entry about Princess Margaret (played by Vanessa Kirby) spiked on the same day, and hit No. 37 on the list, just behind Melania Trump. (“I haven’t watched ‘The Crown,’ so I can’t really comment on the version of Princess Margaret that is drawing viewers to this site,” one Wiki editor wrote.) Prince Philip&lsquo
  
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• A Woman Who Saved A London Bookstore And Earned A Double First At Cambridge (And Was A Supermodel) Earns The Ire Of A Man 'Protecting' Emily Brönte's Name

  07-01-2018 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So this went over well (read the link for the lengthy backlash): "'What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organizer in her celebratory year was a supermodel?' the biographer, Nick Holland, asked. Mr. Holland said Ms. Cole’s appointment smacked of a desire to be 'trendy.' He was quitting the society, he added sarcastically, before it had the chance to announce the comedian James Corden and the singer Rita Ora as future partners."
  
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• On my radar: Jon McGregor’s cultural highlights

  07-01-2018 11:00
  The novelist and short-story writer on grime music, a play about the Falklands conflict, and the educational benefits of coffeeBorn in Bermuda and raised in Norfolk, Jon McGregor wrote his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, while working in a vegetarian restaurant. The novel was long-listed for the 2002 Booker prize, making McGregor, then 26, the youngest ever contender. He has written two more novels as well as short fiction. The University of Nottingham gave him an honorary do
  
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• From Ear to Ear to Eye review – voices of battle and the bazaar

  07-01-2018 09:00
  Nottingham Contemporary
  From phone films to ballistics reports, testimony is central to this powerful survey of contemporary Arab artIn the spring of 2014, in one of the most controversial crimes of recent times, Israeli border guards shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank town of Beitunia. CNN reporters captured the deaths on camera, disproving the soldiers’ claim that they were quelling a riot; but still the Israeli government defended its own. In the chaotic investigation
  
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