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Art Review Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters
The Metropolitan Museum is an excellent place to hunt for mythical beasts. Look in almost any gallery of art made before 1900 and ...
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Dance Review Blush by Gallim Dance at BAM Fisher
In the dim light you can discern a body. ...
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Music Review Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge
Founded in 2001, Gotham Chamber Opera made its name with nimble, creative productions of older works, occasionally venturing into the 20th century but going no further than Britten and Piazzolla. That makes the ...
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Music Review Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institutes Tunisia Festival
The Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, a gentle firebrand whose song ...
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Critics Notebook Ray Donovan Graceland and 32 Other Summer TV Shows
When it comes to television, ...
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Movie Review Fill the Void Directed by Rama Burshtein
The story told by Rama Burshtein in ...
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Inside Art Retired Maurizio Cattelan in Swiss Exhibition
Nobody really believed Maurizio Cattelan when, on the eve of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum two years ago, he announced his retirement. It seemed a bit far-fetched that Mr Cattelan, an epic jokester who was just 50 at the time, would stop making art altogether. Now his name is listed among those in the exhibitions opening at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, next ...
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Books of The Times The Art of Controversy by Victor Navasky
Writing last year in Slate, Farhad Manjoo made a convincing case that in the era of Jon Stewart; The Onion; the wiseacres on Twitter and Facebook; and the crowd-sourced humor that appears everywhere on the Web, political cartoons as a form are on life support. Mr. Manjoo studied recent cartoons, especially those from Pulitzer Prize winners, and declared: ...
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Quebec film wins screenplay prize at Cannes
a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which translates ...
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Celebs on the God front this week
God is really giving celebrities a run for their money this week. Let's start with Jewel, the singer who recently announced she has lost weight through the Biblical diet. What, we hear you asking, does this mean? Wolfing down locusts? Fatted calf? Gluten-free Manna? What it means, Jewel explains, is, "Eating whole foods like they did in the time when the Bible was being ...
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Greek choreographer continues Cretan dance quest
A famous Greek dance choreographer has visited Australia as he continues a self-proclaimed quest to see dances from the island of Crete spread throughout the world.Australia is the latest stop for Gianni Megalakakis, who has devoted his life to seeing traditional Cretan dance recognised on a global scale.The Greek island of Crete was home to one of the world's most sophisticated ancient ...
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The Rascals Back On Stage In South Florida
HOLLYWOOD (CBSMiami) – At a time when the music industry was dominated by the British invasion, four young men from the Northeast rose to the top becoming one of the most important American bands in rock and roll history. For the first time in 42-years The Rascals, formerly known as The Young Rascals, are back on stage and in the spotlight. On Thursday morning, media was invited to a ...
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Art Review Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes at National Gallery
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Art Review Mel Bochner Proposition and Process at Peter Freeman
The excellent exhibition of Mel ...
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Contrition is one thing acting the part is another for new age rugby players
Toulon's full back Delon Armitage scores a try during the European Cup rugby final rugby union match between Clermont Auvergne and Toulon at the Aviva Stadium last week. Frank Fife / ...
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What is Ame Henderson saying with her dance of voice and gesture
, Henderson had three actors each record 100 hours of personal stories. The performance included the men sharing the tapes and blurring memories of which story belonged to which actor. Their movements around the tape player were precisely timed.Is a performer carrying extension cables, microphones and sound monitors considered choreography? Henderson would have us think so in her new work.For ...
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Cuban Discography Catalog Allows Musical Journey in Time
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Recording and Musical Editions Company (EGREM) promoted a trip back in time to that Old Havana nights of singers and accomplice pianists. The pretext was the presentation of its new catalog, and nearby celebration of the Africa Day, for which a splendid party will be given to that continent's diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba. Amen to disclose all ...
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Connecticut Music Arts School For Economically Disadvantaged Kids Is The Latest Music Empowers Foundation Beneficiary
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Music Empowers Foundation is proud to announce a $20,000 grant to the Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County. Neighborhood Studios is a multi-disciplinary school of the arts in Bridgeport, CT. Founded in 1977, it provides music and ...
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Kimber Kompany brings a musical range to Musical Chairs
May 23--There are people who play music and there are people who live music. Living the music is an emotion and personality. It's when music becomes more than a hobby -- an expression of the heart. And as far as living the music goes, Dale Kimber is no exception. Music is in his bones, rooted deep down in his soul. Born and raised in Burlington, Kimber moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s ...
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Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries
It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...
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Metallica star knocked off stage
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is recovering after he was knocked offstage by an overzealous fan during a gig in New York on Tuesday. The 50 year old was performing a rendition of Whiplash at the Highline Ballroom with his solo band Newsted when a concertgoer hopped onstage and bumped into the musician during an attempt to crowd surf, sending them both tumbling into the audience. The ...
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Foxy Brown to sue over Jay-Z gossip
Rapper Foxy Brown is threatening legal action against gossip bloggers amid false reports suggesting she has been badmouthing Jay-Z by allegedly accusing him of engaging in gay sex and taking her virginity when she was just 15. The Candy hitmaker was rumoured to have dished on her former mentor's dirty secrets at a recent baby shower she attended, supposedly revealing all about how Jay-Z ...
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Freeman falls asleep on live TV
When actors have a new movie coming out, they typically do a myriad of interviews to promote it, which we would imagine gets pretty tiring. So much so, in fact, that Morgan Freeman actually dozed off during his interview with Seattle's Q13 Fox affiliate. Watch the above video. While "Now You See Me" co-star Michael Caine talks about the movie, Freeman slowly falls asleep right ...
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Antiques Third-Century Cutlery at Auction Schoolgirls Samplers
THIRD-CENTURY CUTLERY RELEASED FOR AUCTION The London silver dealer Jane Penrice Benson How was notorious for ushering shoppers out of her gallery if she suspected that they were uninformed. When one dismissed customer swore never to return, Mrs How replied that that promise ...
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Dance conservatory production adapts classic Cinderella tale
The classic story of Cinderella is the basis for the Downtown Dance Conservatory’s original production of ';The Glass Slipper: A Cinderella Story'; that will be presented at 6:30 p.m. May 31 and June 1 at the Wallace Hall Fine Arts ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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