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Archives for December 8, 2013

For Some Reason, This Is The First Time Anyone Has Mounted A Show About Turner And The Sea

VISUAL Posted: December 8, 2013 11:03 pm

“His grander salon paintings are embarrassing in their attempt to emulate his idol Claude Lorrain, but they were always striving to portray in paint the emotions he felt in gazing at a storm-swept sea or a tumbling mountain waterfall or a Venetian lagoon at twilight.”

VISUAL Published: 12.08.13, The Independent (UK)

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Basically, Nothing Separates A PG-13 From An R

MEDIA Posted: December 8, 2013 10:57 pm

“Our findings raise serious concerns about the effectiveness of the MPAA rating system.”

MEDIA Published: 12.08.13, The Hollywood Reporter

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Commander Chris Hadfield Takes On The Nutcracker

DANCE Posted: December 8, 2013 10:52 pm

“The National says it’s the first time in its 63-year-history that an astronaut has appeared on-stage as a Cannon Doll.”

DANCE Published: 12.08.13, Geekosystem

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Is Anything In The Arts More Painful Than Terrible Theatre?

THEATRE Posted: December 8, 2013 10:13 pm

“After the first half-hour, it felt like someone was sticking needles in my arms and legs.”

THEATRE Published: 12.05.13, The Guardian (UK)

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Stop Saying ‘Love, Actually’ Is Romantic – It’s The Opposite

MEDIA Posted: December 8, 2013 9:47 pm

“What does Love Actually tell us about love, actually? Well, I think it tells us a number of things, most of them wrong and a few of them appalling.”

MEDIA Published: 12.06.13, The Atlantic

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Almodovar Tackles Spanish Government (Again)

ISSUES Posted: December 8, 2013 9:42 pm

“The 64-year-old filmmaker called it ‘deaf and insensitive’ to the country’s problems and railed against its ‘awful cultural policy.’ Spanish state funding to the arts, including film, has been drastically reduced in recent years.”

ISSUES Published: 12.08.13, BBC

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When The Movie Is So Much More Fun Than The Book

WORDS Posted: December 8, 2013 9:37 pm

“The moment I unwrapped my present I knew something had gone horribly wrong.”

WORDS Published: 12.06.13, The Guardian (UK)

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How Did A Furniture Factory In Wisconsin Turn Out So Many Classic Records?

MUSIC Posted: December 8, 2013 9:32 pm

“Their very cheapness and interest in getting stuff out as quickly as possible ended up unwittingly providing this platform with this incredible breadth to it — just in the diversity of sounds that were captured.”

MUSIC Published: 12.08.13, Los Angeles Times

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Years After 9/11, The Flea Theatre Finds A Permanent Home

THEATRE Posted: December 8, 2013 9:25 pm

“The smallest of its spaces, at 44 seats, will be called the Siggy in [Sigourney] Weaver’s honor.”

THEATRE Published: 12.08.13, The New York Times

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American Inequality Is Out Of Control, Says Creator Of ‘The Wire’

ISSUES Posted: December 8, 2013 9:17 pm

“About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each other, and yet we are living in such proximity.”

ISSUES Published: 12.07.13, The Observer (UK)

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When TV Gets Boring, Is It Time For A Musical Episode … Or Not?

MEDIA Posted: December 8, 2013 9:09 pm

“For shows that don’t normally have music … and achieve a certain longevity, the musical episode is something of a television tradition. These episodes no doubt give the cast a way to shake off the doldrums, and they tend to make a big impression on fans.”

MEDIA Published: 12.08.13, The New York Times

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Stonehenge Remodeled Just In Time For Winter Solstice

VISUAL Posted: December 8, 2013 9:04 pm

“There has been a growth in Druid orders and in the number of people interested in pagan festivals.

VISUAL Published: 12.07.13, The Observer (UK)

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Upworthy Style Headlines Have Colonized Our News Feeds. Why?

MEDIA Posted: December 8, 2013 8:58 pm

“If you want to understand why the Upworthy style is suddenly everywhere, you start with a program that controls what millions of people see and read everyday—and which very few people understand.”

MEDIA Published: 12.08.13, The Atlantic

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Off Broadway (By 7000 Miles), Broadway Musicals Reign

THEATRE Posted: December 8, 2013 11:10 am

“Ticket sales to American and European musicals, as well as to a sprinkling of Korean originals, have grown from $9 million in 2000 to an estimated $300 million this year, and a frenzy of licensing deals is underway.”

THEATRE Published: 12.07.13, The New York Times

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They’re Going To Revive Elaine’s Without Elaine?

WORDS Posted: December 8, 2013 11:00 am

“Not only did Ms. Kaufman genuinely like writers, but early on, she may have sensed that when one coddles them, one tends to get written about.”

WORDS Published: 12.07.13, The New York Times

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It’s Wrong And Flat-Out Stupid To Loot The DIA

VISUAL Posted: December 8, 2013 10:50 am

“The whole point of a bankruptcy is to solve deep and structural problems in the economic organization of a major city – not to strip-mine everything from the Bellinis at the museum to the baboons at the Detroit Zoo for however much one-time cash you can squeeze out of them.”

VISUAL Published: 12.08.13, The Guardian (UK)

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What Can We Learn From Katy Perry?

ISSUES Posted: December 8, 2013 10:40 am

“Perhaps Perry mimics geishas because she recognizes in them the same elaborate traditions of costume, makeup, dance, singing, and erotic performance, to a commercial end, of which she is a part.”

ISSUES Published: 12.06.13, HowlRound

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The Most Important Monuments Man Might’ve Been A Parisian Woman

VISUAL Posted: December 8, 2013 10:30 am

“During the Nazi occupation, she had worked in the Museum Jeu de Paume, an important depot for art plundered by the Nazis. There she tried to keep track of where the artworks ended up, registering every single work.”

VISUAL Published: 12.05.13, Der Spiegel

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When Your Body Fuses With Your Musical Instrument

MUSIC Posted: December 8, 2013 10:20 am

“Proprioception (e.g. muscle memory) provides the player with a cognitive shortcut that frees the conscious mind from primarily focusing on the mechanical details of music performance and allows it to address issues of aesthetics.”

MUSIC Published: 12.06.13, New Music Box

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Should Courts Legally Protect Graffiti As Street Art?

VISUAL Posted: December 8, 2013 10:10 am

“Some artists want their work to stay up forever. For me it’s part of the game, you don’t know if it will stay up or if you will be arrested.”

VISUAL Published: 12.07.13, The Art Newspaper

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Alice Munro And The Vindication Of The Short Story

PEOPLE Posted: December 8, 2013 10:00 am

“Maybe I write stories that people get very involved in, maybe it is the complexity and the lives presented in them. I hope they are a good read. I hope they move people.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.06.13, The Guardian (UK)

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Orhan Panuk’s Museum Of Innocence Is 500 Days Old: How’s It Doing?

ISSUES Posted: December 8, 2013 9:50 am

“As the violence snowballed and spilled onto the streets I walked past the museum door, looked at the building’s red facade and tried imagining the silence inside.”

ISSUES Published: 12.08.13, Los Angeles Review of Books

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Despite Labor Disputes, Minnesota Orchestra Gets Grammy Nomination

MUSIC Posted: December 8, 2013 9:40 am

“The nomination, in the Best Orchestral Performance category, is its second in two years.”

MUSIC Published: 12.07.13, Pioneer Press (St. Paul)

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Could We Get Some Actual Women Onscreen, Please?

MEDIA Posted: December 8, 2013 9:30 am

“Women rarely appear as women – they appear as sex objects or as ersatz men – sometimes both at once.”

MEDIA Published: 12.07.13, The Observer (UK)

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How Can The UK’s National Theatre Claim ‘National’ Status?

THEATRE Posted: December 8, 2013 9:20 am

London sucks up most of the air – and definitely most of the money – for the arts in the UK. Can the National Theatre somehow reach “the country’s furthest flung corners”?

THEATRE Published: 12.02.13, The Guardian (UK)

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