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• Call for entries: Anatomy 20 / Anatomy Arts / Scotland

  21-04-2019 21:31
  ANATOMY is a quarterly live art cabaret based in Edinburgh's Summerhall and occasionally venturing elsewhere. We are looking for fearless proposals of things that can be presented in a room with an...
  
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• The Art At Coachella Is ‘So Sick!’

  21-04-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The music festival actually commissions several massive artworks to go with each year. At first, it was connected closely with Burning Man; now, 20 years in, things are slightly more international. “‘It’s a great canvas: It’s green, lush, and the sky,’ says Poetic Kinetics leader Patrick Shearn of creating his kinetic artworks for the wide-open Indio setting. ‘Anything that breaks the skyline is something they’re looking for — and spectacle.'&rdqu
  
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• Should Notre Dame Get A Modern Spire?

  21-04-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Architects weigh in. Here’s one opinion: “Surely, this is an opportunity to recreate a once-hidden – and now destroyed – timber structure with a modern, fireproof, lightweight replacement. The ideal outcome would be a respectful combination of the dominant old with the best of the new.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Drug Wars From Different Angles In Latin America’s Complex Narco Novelas

  21-04-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike English-language stories created for the U.S. market, narco novelas offer “a compelling complexity in the face of the simplistic story lines that emerge out of Hollywood. Narco novelas generally dispense with the black and white in order to look at the world in shades of gray.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Iconic Helvetica Font Just Got A Makeover

  21-04-2019 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did you notice? Some people sure did. “The alter-typeface became a trending topic on Twitter. Mitch Goldstein, a design professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, tweeted, ‘Saw Helvetica trending, and I thought maybe it died?'” – NPR
  
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• This Presidential Museum Got Scammed

  21-04-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was all set to open a show on the Rosetta Stone, with accompanying Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts, when they invited University of Iowa art historians to prepare a presentation on the items. A grad student noticed that all was not right: About 90 of the 125 objects are “either definite or very likely fakes. … They obviously got taken and defrauded.” The Hoover Museum canceled the show. – KCRG (Iowa)
  
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• A Political Observation

  21-04-2019 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The façade of the UN’s Secretariat Building is a mirage. – Jan Herman
  
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• The UK’s Biggest Contribution To World Theatre

  21-04-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is … the circus? – The Stage (UK)
  
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• As Gen-Z And Millennials Drive Up Poetry Sales, London Now Has A Young People’s Poet Laureate

  21-04-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Theresa Lola, 24 years old and a former finance major who preferred poetry, is actually the city’s third youth poet laureate. She says, “Poetry was instrumental for me, to find my voice and to find my confidence, and hopefully it can do that for other young people too.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Administrator / SAVVY Theatre Company / London

  21-04-2019 16:30
  SAVVY is an award-winning inclusive company based in Croydon. In September we will take up residency at the newly refurbished Fairfield Halls. 
  We are currently looking for an Administrator to...
  
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• When Your Career Becomes A Hashtag, What Happens Next?

  21-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2016, John Cho “became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible and Daniel Craig in Spectre as part of a wider calling for diversity in entertainment, and an Asian-American leading man.” And now, things are definitely starring John Cho. – The New York Times
  
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• The Sudden Dominance Of International Pop Music

  21-04-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes, as with 2012’s monster hit “Gangnam Style” and all of the K-pop since, “all it takes is one song to introduce a new culture to the mainstream, paving the way for other acts or similar musical styles.” – CBC
  
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• Mental Health Apps May Be Sharing Data, And Not Telling Their Customers

  21-04-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basically: “Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google — but often don’t admit it in their privacy policies, a new study reports.” Yikes. (Er, nine of the most popular mental health apps don’t even have a privacy policy.) – The Verge
  
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• It’s Past Time To Let Go Of Robinson Crusoe

  21-04-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The colonial fairytale doesn’t hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader – but somehow it became a children’s story: “Educationists agreed that the island narrative of Crusoe was an ideal text for teaching the virtues of self-reliance, careful management of resources and trust in the overall – if a little mysterious, but that’s a part of the appeal – wonderfulness of the Christian God. That the novel could b
  
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• Pop-Up Theatre Can Change Lives

  21-04-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Fiona Shaw decided to perform excerpts from T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” in (and near) an empty fountain in Central Park, she didn’t want it announced – and there was only a brief mention on social media. Then word of mouth happened. What’s next? “Taking theatre to the audience in unexpected ways can only serve to evoke interest, and may capture the imagination of those not used to planting themselves in a theatre seat.” – The Stage (UK
  
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• Director John Singleton Is In Intensive Care After A ‘Mild’ Stroke

  21-04-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director is most known for the 1991 film Boyz N the Hood, but he’s also a producer and screenwriter whose films include 2 Fast 2 Furious, Shaft, and the documentary LA Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Man In Charge Of The Music Of The Ring

  21-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Philippe Jordan, 44, has 15 hours of Wagner’s Ring Cycle to get through – and try to shine through – at the Met. How does he do it? The man who has been in charge of Opéra National de Paris, and who is about to assume the reins as music director of the Vienna State Opera, actually considers it something of a break. – The New York Times
  
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• Make your mark: the enduring joy of drawing

  21-04-2019 10:00
  From the Lascaux caves to the notepad doodle, we have always been drawn to draw. On the eve of the UK’s first art fair dedicated to drawing, we celebrate the freest and first of all art formsArt starts with a drawing – specifically a drawing by a clever young girl named Kora, otherwise known as the Maid of Corinth. Kora is a teenager in ancient Greece who has fallen in love with a soldier. Alas he is called up to war. Desperate to keep hold of him, or some memory of his handsome pres
  
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• Hito Steyerl: Power Plants review – all a bit tiresome

  21-04-2019 09:00
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  Hito Steyerl imagines flowers of the future that look pretty much like the ones we have now in a show of tiresome consciousness-raising
  Hito Steyerl is the very squeak of chic, as fashionable for her public lectures as for her essays, films and theories. Born in Munich in 1966, she is currently a professor of new media art in Berlin. Some people love her harshly ironic films, highly coloured, sharply cut but always intensely didactic (one is actually called A Fucking D
  
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