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• Alex Laing talks about the impact of the Gateways Spring Festival

  06-04-2024 19:21 via artsjournal.com
  Alex Laing, President & Artistic Director of the Gateways Music Festival and 2018 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, shares the breadth and impact of their upcoming Spring Festival.
  
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• On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights

  06-04-2024 16:00
  
  The English singer-songwriter on an evocative Scottish railway museum, a much-missed painter and a forgotten American female musicianBorn in 1945 and raised in London, singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970, inspired by a trip around the Hebrides in a horse-drawn cart. Initially overlooked, the album went on to be regarded as a classic. After stepping away from music for 30 years, Bunyan released Lookaftering in 2005 and Heartleap in 2014, and
  
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• ‘You can imagine it’s you, standing there on the edge’: Atle Rønningen’s best phone picture

  06-04-2024 11:00
  
  A massive cliff and a fearless friend helped the photographer capture an unforgettable image“Eskil is a tough guy,” Atle Rønningen says of the friend he was hiking Pulpit Rock with. “It’s a massive cliff over 600 metres high, in Preikestolen, Norway. It’s so popular and busy in the summer months, so we went in the spring as soon as the snow had gone. It was still icy in some places, and the weather changed abruptly all day,” he says.It was fortunate Esk
  
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• Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse: ‘Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of’

  06-04-2024 08:00
  
  The director’s new biopic about the troubled singer tells the story of a relationship scrutinised by the tabloids – something she knows all about. She talks about facing cancer, falling for a younger man and why she’ll always be drawn to ‘intense, deep subjects’Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s most famous image back when she was Sam Taylor-Wood, the talented Young British Artist, was a self-portrait standing in a black suit holding a rigid upwards-pointing hare.
  
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• From Monkey Man to The Regime: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  06-04-2024 07:00
  
  Dev Patel directs and stars in a John Wick-style action thriller, and Kate Winslet goes full dictator in a wickedly funny new dramaIo Capitano
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  Italian auteur Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated latest sees two Senegalese teenagers attempting to reach Europe in a perilous modern odyssey across water, deserts and detention centres, powered by dreams of a better life. Starring Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall in their acting debuts. Continue reading...
  
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• Signature Theatre NYC seeks next Artistic Director

  06-04-2024 04:03 via artsjournal.com
  The Artistic Director will design and implement Signature’s artistic vision, curating an exciting and diverse season of productions that is in alignment with its organizational mission. Reporting to the board of trustees and partnering with the Executive Director, they will develop artistic programs and initiatives to elevate the theater’s profile within the community, increase audience attendance, and secure its financial health. As the public face of the theater, the Artistic Direc
  
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• You Can’t Escape Philip Glass

  06-04-2024 00:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Whether you love him, hate him, pay him or his music no mind, or pretend he doesn’t matter — you cannot escape Philip Glass. His impact on composers of succeeding generations, whether they accept him or oppose him, is indelible. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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