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• Meet Joe Hernandez–Legendary Tejano Musician

  30-09-2023 21:51 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  National Heritage Fellow “Little Joe” Hernández describes his musical journey explaining how his culture, family, and personal experiences shaped his legendary style. Coming from a musical family, he took the traditional Mexican songs he grew up hearing, and blended them with jazz, country, rock ‘n roll, and blues creating a distinctive voice in Tejano music.  He discusses his transition from a shy boy to the frontman of Little Joe and the Latinaires—lat
  
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• Nicole Balm talks about the connection between music and health

  30-09-2023 19:06 via artsjournal.com
  Nicole Balm, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, talks about the connection between music and health and their impact on community.
  
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• On my radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s cultural highlights

  30-09-2023 16:00
  
  The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviarBorn in Massachusetts to Russian-Jewish parents, Daniel Lopatin, 41, is an experimental musician and producer who has been working under the pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never since the mid-00s. Now based in Brooklyn, he has produced for artists such as the Weeknd, FKA twigs, David Byrne and Anohni, notably her Mercur
  
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• ‘Suddenly the opportunity presents itself and you grab it’: Jirasak Panpiansin’s best phone picture

  30-09-2023 11:00
  
  Look what happened when the Thai amateur photographer spotted a big pink taxiIt may be the smaller of Bangkok’s two international airports, but hundreds of people can sometimes be found waiting in line for taxis outside Don Mueang. Unlike the black cabs on London’s streets, or New York’s distinctive yellow ones, Thai taxis come in a whole range of colours. “Here we have green and yellow, pink, orange, light yellow, light green, light blue,” Jirasak Panpiansin says.O
  
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• From the London Film Festival to Partygate: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  30-09-2023 07:00
  
  Whether it’s the city’s annual showcase of cinema or a TV lockdown political satire, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysBFI London Film Festival
  Various venues, London, 4 to 15 OctoberOpening with the international premiere of Saltburn (starring Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant and Carey Mulligan), London’s annual showcase of cinema blends a mixture of big hits from this year’s Cannes and Venice film festivals with lesser-known premieres of g
  
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• Intimacy with strangers: Marina Abramović puts the squeeze on

  30-09-2023 00:25
  
  The artist’s Royal Academy retrospective revives her 1977 live work in which visitors pass through a naked couple in a doorway – and reveal something of themselvesIn 1977, in a gallery in Bologna, the artist Marina Abramović and her lover and collaborator, Ulay, stood naked in a narrow doorway, staring intently at one another, as the public squeezed between them.Last week Imponderabilia, as the piece is called, was resurrected with 37 “re-performers” for the artist&r
  
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• Right Wing Trolls Are Attacking Taylor Swift. Good Luck With That

  30-09-2023 00:01 via salon.com
  
  “There’s nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November 2024, which again, is going to make her a billionaire, and maybe even has a hot new boyfriend.” – Salon
  
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