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• Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jazz Master Of The Hammond B3 Organ, 79

  03-10-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Smith, who backed Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, formed his own quartet, and collaborated with hundreds of others, said the organ was “sunshine, rainbows, the rain, the wind, the storm, the flowers. … It’s like sitting in a spaceship and you don’t know where you’re going.” – Washington Post
  
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• How Choreographer Bill T. Jones Keeps His Creative Fires Burning

  03-10-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you see 45 gestures, made independently, strung together with various musicality and rhythms, against a beautiful song, and then the same gestures juxtaposed to a speech about civil rights, are they the same gestures? And I say they are and they are not.” – Time
  
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• Mel Gooding obituary

  03-10-2021 21:07
  
  Writer on art who undertook interviews for the Artists’ Lives oral history project at the British LibraryThe art critic, writer and teacher Mel Gooding, who has died aged 80, worked independently of any institution; rather than resulting from a planned career, his publications grew out of a sensuous response to painting and sculpture, and an understanding of those who made the work. As well as contributing to the art and national press, including Arts Review, Art Monthly and the Guardian,
  
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• Can Museums And NFTs Find Common Ground?

  03-10-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For this to work, “museums need to acknowledge NFTs as a natural step in the evolution of contemporary art in sync with our digitally driven lives, whose emergence has only been catalysed by the pandemic.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Romania’s Enescu Festival Persists Despite The Pandemic

  03-10-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Romanian “embodied an ideal of the complete musician in his roles as composer, virtuoso violinist and pianist, conductor, teacher and generous mentor to younger artists.” And the country attracted 32 orchestras from 14 countries for the 25th Enescu Fest. – The New York Times
  
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• The Golden Globes Try Again

  03-10-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can adding 21 members, six of whom are Black, solve the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s PR issues? “While some within the organization believe that the Globes could still be resurrected for 2022, many outside the group … remain skeptical that it is truly committed to change.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Aladdin, Finally Back On Broadway, Halts For Two Weeks After Breakthrough Cases Emerge

  03-10-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After only one show, Aladdin was paused again because COVID-19 cases were detected within the company.” Testing allowed the show to resume for one more performance before multiple new positive tests led to a two-week shutdown. – CBS
  
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• The Guardian view on the Turner prize: too worthy for its own good? | Editorial

  03-10-2021 19:25
  
  The competition was set up to be populist. In its current introspective mood, though, it risks pushing away the publicThe Turner prize this year is not about celebrating, or creating, big names in the British art scene. Instead, the shortlist exhibition, which opened at the Herbert gallery, Coventry, last week, is devoted to collectives – most of which pursue social benefits, whether drawing attention to environmental issues in food production, or working with neurodiverse people to create
  
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• Liverpool, Home To Peaky Blinders And The New Batman, Gets Its Own Film Studios

  03-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In addition to hosting Doctor Who and other shows, “the city has previously doubled up as New York for productions including Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Channel 4 hit series It’s A Sin.” – BBC
  
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• The New York Phil Is Essentially On Tour For Its Entire Season

  03-10-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moving all of the instruments – and all of the music – is no small task. – The New York Times
  
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• Detached, in Harmony: Covid-inspired art meets 40s fashion – in pictures

  03-10-2021 18:30
  
  Award-winning Australian aerial photographer Brad Walls has released a new series titled Detached, in Harmony, drawing inspiration from the pandemic as well as from renowned 1940s fashion photographer Clifford Coffin. Like many, Walls has experienced how distant and repetitive life has become in times of Covid. He presents these concepts through repetition, symmetry and negative space. The Sydney-based artist plans to stage a solo exhibition for Detached, in Harmony next year‘A new perspec
  
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• Beinecke’s Sweet Tweet Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes and His Reply

  03-10-2021 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  An eagle-eyed member of Straight Up’s staff of thousands, unpaid but indefatiguable, noticed this exchange posted on Twitter by the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and sent it along. Perhaps you saw it? If not . . .Click to enlarge.
  
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• Wait, Why Does Seinfeld Look So Different On Netflix?

  03-10-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s all about the ratios. – Slate
  
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• The Guardian Of The Art Of Black Lives Matter

  03-10-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2020, in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, fencing to prevent protests was covered with artwork – and it all “became a symbol for the movement, a place where people stopped and took pictures, honoring what the fence and its signs stood for.” – NPR
  
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• Hollywood’s Behind The Scenes Workers Are Ready To Bring It All To A Halt

  03-10-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hollywood couldn’t function without the set builders, costume designers, video engineers and other behind-the-scenes workers who keep the lights on and cameras rolling for the stars.” Very true, and a strike vote is ongoing this weekend. – Washington Post
  
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• Streaming Was Supposed To Put A Pause On Piracy

  03-10-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But now it seems to be more prevalent than ever – in part because paying for all of the streaming services you might want costs a lot more than a pretty penny. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• George Ferencz, Innovative And Experimental Theatre Director, 74

  03-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater, and a icon at La MaMa over decades, he infused theatre with music (especially jazz) and reimagined classic theatre with “startling new interpretations.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Chopin Competition Finally Opens Again In Poland

  03-10-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before COVID lockdowns hit, the last competition in the series to be delayed was thanks to WWII. – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• The U.S. Suddenly Has Two Mermaid Museums

  03-10-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What? One museum’s founder: “Mermaids must’ve been coming through the ether.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• When Stanley Tucci Fell In Love With Food

  03-10-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Acting? Eh. Tucci: “You’re going through life, you have this trajectory and this vision, then suddenly this whole other good thing is like a sidecar attached to you, and you’re off in another direction.” – The New York Times
  
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• Turner prize 2021; Summer Exhibition 2021 review – there can be no winner

  03-10-2021 14:00
  
  Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Royal Academy, London
  Social activism not art is the benchmark of a collective-juggling Turner prize. And Yinka Shonibare begins to shake things up at art’s annual pro-am fixtureFirst! That is the exultant boast for this year’s Turner prize – the first shortlist composed entirely of collectives. The first work conceived outside the gallery system. The first time the show has been held in the Midlands, and represents every nation of the UK; certain
  
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• Did Los Angeles Just Experience Its Best Hollywood Bowl Season Ever?

  03-10-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Swed thinks so – and it wasn’t just post-shutdown elation, either. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Technology Isn’t As Neutral As We Want It To Be

  03-10-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No tech is without cost, but “the digital revolution, instead of just ambivalence, seems instead to promise utopia but deliver harm.” – Toronto Star
  
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• A School Board Banned Hundreds Of Books And Documentaries Until Students Fought Back

  03-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  York, Pennsylvania students, their parents, and authors around the country have won a temporary “freeze.” But the school board’s racism and homophobia seem entrenched and intransigent. One senior: “We know that they did not temporarily reverse out of the goodness of their hearts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Food dye as paint, hair as a brush: how a lifer found an escape in art

  03-10-2021 08:15
  
  A London exhibition of works created in prison by murderer Donny Johnson coincides with a new film about himHis paintbrush is made from his own hair. His paints are the coloured pigments from M&M sweets. His canvas is the back of a used greetings card and his studio is a cell that measures seven feet by 11 feet. This is the world of Donny Johnson, sentenced to life in California in 1980 for a murder committed during an argument over drugs when he was a teenager. If you were to pitch his stor
  
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• It’s a wrap: Christo’s final art project follows Paris triumph

  03-10-2021 07:45
  
  As the covers come off the Arc de Triomphe, work begins to realise an ambitious project in the desert and secure the artist’s legacyBefore he died last year the artist Christo had not one but two dreams: to wrap the Arc de Triomphe and to build a massive structure out of oil drums in the desert sands of Abu Dhabi. L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped was completed last month and today visitors to Paris will have one last chance to see the arch swathed in silver blue fabric before it is dismant
  
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