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Toronto MoCA Director Abruptly Quits After Only Eight Months On The Job

VISUAL Posted: June 29, 2016 3:47 pm

The departure is a shocking turn of events for MOCA, which has undergone wholesale transformations of its mandate, philosophy and even location in the space of less than a year.

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Read the story in Toronto Star Published: 06.25.16

Pierre Audi Will Leave Dutch National Opera To Run Aix Festival

MUSIC Posted: June 29, 2016 5:00 am

“Pierre Audi, who recently became the artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory [in New York], has been named the next director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in southern France, … Mr. Audi, a stage director and impresario known for fostering contemporary work and for projects of daunting ambition, has led the Dutch National Opera for three decades. But he’ll give up Amsterdam for Aix in 2018.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 06.25.16

Center Stage Was A Perfect Ballet Movie, So What Happened To Its Sequel?

DANCE Posted: June 27, 2016 5:30 am

“The dance scenes should ideally be the most memorable part of any dance movie, but beyond the tutus, the world of Center Stage was surprisingly richly developed.”

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Read the story in Vox Published: 06.25.16

The Artist’s Muse Is An Artist Too

VISUAL Posted: June 26, 2016 9:30 am

“We wanted to explore this exploitative Victorian hangover that has kidnapped the idea. A muse can simply be someone who unlocks someone else’s creativity, not a dominant objectification.”

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Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 06.25.16

Comedian Aziz Ansari Speaks Out About Trump’s Campaign

ISSUES Posted: June 26, 2016 9:00 am

“As far as these problems go, I have it better than most because of my recognizability as an actor. When someone on the street gives me a strange look, it’s usually because they want to take a selfie with me, not that they think I’m a terrorist.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.25.16

Watching A Company Grapple With Its Origin Story And Real History

ISSUES Posted: June 26, 2016 8:30 am

“Slavery and whiskey, far from being two separate strands of Southern history, were inextricably entwined. Enslaved men not only made up the bulk of the distilling labor force, but they often played crucial skilled roles in the whiskey-making process. In the same way that white cookbook authors often appropriated recipes from their black cooks, white distillery owners took credit for the whiskey.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.25.16

Media Companies Took A Big Hit Post-Brexit

ISSUES Posted: June 26, 2016 6:15 am

“Among the seven conglomerates, $20 billion in value was wiped out on Friday.”

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Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 06.25.16

When A Flash Fiction Writer Goes Long(er)

WORDS Posted: June 26, 2016 5:00 am

“I’m mildly obsessed with the modular story because I like not having to tell a linear story all the time. I also love white space, and jumping around in time, place, or character point of view.”

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Read the story in The Rumpus Published: 06.25.16

Desperate For A ‘Hamilton’ Ticket? Do You Have $3000 For Hillary Clinton?

THEATRE Posted: June 26, 2016 4:45 am

The special extra matinee fundraiser is on July 12, though, which is after Leslie Odom Jr., Philippa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda all exit the cast.

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Read the story in Variety Published: 06.25.16

Bill Cunningham, Photographer Of New York Street And Society Fashion, Has Died At 87

PEOPLE Posted: June 25, 2016 2:52 pm

“In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist, one who used the changing dress habits of the people he photographed to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.25.16

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