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(a means to take un-necessary baggage and transform it into something that someone else can use.) “thanks to nir for the amazing job on the video.” ~ Know Hope (via blkriver.at).....
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You’ll have a hard time promoting your art until you are uber excited about it. You’ll whine, you’ll complain, and you’ll make excuses. Just don’t let me be within earshot of any of these time-wasting activities. They are unproductive and will suck the life out of you, your art, and everyone around you...
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Heidi Rodewald and Stew split up before their musical, "Passing Strange," got to Broadway. A year after it closed, "Stew starts writing breakup songs. His friends tell him they're great, but you know what would be really great? Have Heidi sing about her side of things." Now St. Ann's Warehouse is staging the new show......
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"The projects include the long-awaited new building for Theatre for a New Audience; a renovation of the Strand Theater building; [and] a third theater venue for BAM.... But the nascent arts neighborhood has had so many setbacks, it's easy to question whether these projects will be completed as scheduled, especially during a major recession.".....
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Orlando performance artist Brian Feldman "has a pretty strong motivation for marrying a woman he doesn't know. ... He's trying to point out the craziness of a state system that will allow near-strangers to marry, as long as they're of opposite sexes, but will not allow marriages for committed partners of the same sex.".....
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"Don't let a point of reference prevent you from having a moment of a fresh new experience," he advises. And: "Connect to physical pleasures of life.".....
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Newly appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Chuck Close and Jhumpa Lahiri "will become the first visual artist and writer on an advisory panel weighted with actors and business people.".....
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"All artists who focus on wildlife, historical and nautical scenes are confronted on a regular basis by people who are knowledgeable in these fields" and who are "looking for mistakes. ... How to research is not taught in studio art classes, but it is a skill artists in the accuracy trade need to acquire.".....
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"The largest is the creative freedom allowed by nonprofit status. Another is Film Forum's rigorous selection process. ... And then there is the emphasis on marketing.".....
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"Looking ahead, the faces of those swimming in the investor pool have changed, but basically the same number of check writers are afloat. Says producer Roger Berlind ('A Little Night Music'), 'There are more producers above the line who are enthusiastically contributing -- no shortage of people playing that role.'".....
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Arts givers in 2009's top 10: Michael Bloomberg (No. 4), Louise Dieterle Nippert (No. 5) and Eli and Edythe Broad (No. 7)......
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"Now, as publishers enter discussions with the Web giant Google about its plan to sell digital versions of new books direct to consumers, they have a little more leverage than just a few weeks ago -- at least when it comes to determining how Google will pay publishers for those e-books and how much consumers will pay for them.".....
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Next year, the company will bring five plays to the Park Avenue Armory, where they will perform on "an exact copy of the company's Royal Shakespeare Theater, which is being built in Stratford. The reproduction will be shipped in pieces to New York and assembled in the Armory's monumental Drill Hall....".....
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"I would have hypothesized that there are two basic strategies for making the most-e-mailed list. One, which I've happily employed, is to write anything about sex. The other, which I'm still working on, is to write an article headlined: 'How Your Pet's Diet Threatens Your Marriage, and Why It's Bush's Fault.'" Not so, researchers have found......
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The financial disaster continues to claim cultural victims, with opera companies and orchestras cutting back their seasons or closing down completely. The plans of the French government for a new concert hall, the Philharmonie de Paris to be built to a design by Jean Nouvel, have also hit a major bump. Where could one possibly build a major structure like this dans l'enceinte de Paris? In a...
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Fireworks Ensemble performing “Metal Machine Music,” a 1975 work
transcribed by Ulrich Krieger and Luca Venitucci, at Miller Theater...
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Delta Spirit: Matthew Vasquez, this San Diego band’s lead singer, performing at Pianos...
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“Flying Cheap,” Tuesday’s “Frontline” on PBS, revisits the February 2009 crash of a commuter flight outside Buffalo and surveys problems within the regional airline system.
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George London Foundation: Sean Panikkar and June Anderson at the Morgan Library & Museum...
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Lucien Postlewaite and Kaori Nakamura of Pacific Northwest Ballet in Ronald Hynd's version of “The Sleeping Beauty....
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Kelli Giddish and Nicholas Bishop in “Past Life.” Ms. Giddish plays a pscyhologist...
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Juilliard Baroque Ensemble performed Bach’s six “Brandenburg” Concertos at Corpus Christi Church on Sunday afternoon...
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Unsound Festival: Carl Craig accompanied an Andy Warhol film at the Walter Reade Theater on Friday night...
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Dante’s Inferno, the game from Electronic Arts, follows the poem’s author in a quest to rescue Beatrice....
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The enTourage eDGe, shown at a trade show in Las Vegas last month, combines an e-book with several other functions...
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POST BY PATRICK GANTERT
Discerning ‘men of the cloth’ take note! This week’s Best Link Ever! Brings you Clergy Style, the one stop shop for all your holy threads. Clergy Style meets the needs of the religious elite with products ranging from ornately patterned, brightly colored robes to patent leather shoes with customizable inserts. In addition, Clergy [......
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This looks cool: The art punk rockers known as Japanther have created a limited edition book of their puppet rock opera collaboration with artist Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, and others DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 30. This comes with the launch of their new album Rock ‘n’ Roll Ice Cream, out March 2 on vinyl/digital [......
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POST BY PADDY JOHNSON, PHOTOS BY CONRAD VENTUR
Josh Altman & Cecilia Alemani
What opportunities come from participating in a giant uncurated 24-hour exhibition? Probably not a lot past light networking, but that’s not the point. Shows such as BYOA, The X-Initiative’s closing exhibition for their one year non-profit program, are about building community. I saw a [......
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Artifacts | Pillow Talk - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com
To accompany her career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, opening March 14, Abramovic collaborated with the non-profit outreach organization, More Art, to produce the “Energy Blanket.” Available next month from either More Art or MoMA, it comes with fourteen magnets and a drawing of [......
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swissmiss | Art History Poster
What is this? A sole proprietorship? Not a huge fan....
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The Digest. 02.08.10. Super Ranty Edition. « C-MONSTER.net
Great digest today. Thoughts on Saltz rants especially good....
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POST BY PADDY JOHNSON
Sebastian Mlynarski, Would This Be The Time, 2009, 32 x 40 inches, C-Print
Masthead artist Sebastian Mlynarski is one of twelve New York and Miami based artists participating in Haute Romantics, an Art Fag City curated exhibition at Verge Gallery and Studio Project. Opening in Sacramento this Thursday, the exhibition includes work by Katherine Bernhardt, The Delusional Dow...
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Make: Online : LED eyelashes | eyebeam.org
Time to step up the reblog bar Eyebeam. This shit is awful....
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Seven on Seven - Rhizome
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a [......
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Seven on Seven - Rhizome
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a [......
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(a means to take un-necessary baggage and transform it into something that someone else can use.) “thanks to nir for the amazing job on the video.” ~ Know Hope (via blkriver.at).....
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The doctor, Conrad Murray, provided Mr. Jackson with a powerful anesthetic that was ruled a major factor in his death.
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swissmiss | Art History Poster
What is this? A sole proprietorship? Not a huge fan....
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The Digest. 02.08.10. Super Ranty Edition. « C-MONSTER.net
Great digest today. Thoughts on Saltz rants especially good....
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Make: Online : LED eyelashes | eyebeam.org
Time to step up the reblog bar Eyebeam. This shit is awful....
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As soon as I started thinking that Dutch Polygonal Camo on Google Maps would make great abstract landscape paintings, I thought of a some giant, abstract, polygonal landscape paintings I'd seen way back in 2000-2. But for the life of me, I couldn't remember the artist's name. From Julie Mehretu to Edvard Haberkost, to Benjamin Edwards to Kevin Appel to Carla Klein to Jules de Balincourt to Th...
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Snowcalypse (Part II)Yesterday I described for you my rush home from sunny California in order to be home with my family when the snowstorm arrived to the DC area.Because I'd been up almost 30 hours, I decided to crash and get some sleep before I went out to the back yard and bring some wood closer to the house.By the time I woke up, the snow had begun to fall, and it all looked so blissful and b...
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The Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency inside the Park Avenue Armory.
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Artifacts | Pillow Talk - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com
To accompany her career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, opening March 14, Abramovic collaborated with the non-profit outreach organization, More Art, to produce the “Energy Blanket.” Available next month from either More Art or MoMA, it comes with fourteen magnets and a drawing of [......
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"If the manuscripts exist, and if they ever come to the market, they are likely to become the next posthumous publishing sensation - regardless of how good they are.".....
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