ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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Community can mean something different to everyone. To some, community is their place of worship, and to others, it’s their local theater troupe or intramural softball team. One segment of the population that is typically excluded from t...
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When conducting Art Talks for the blog, we’ll often ask artists what they believe their responsibility is to the community, and conversely, what they think the community’s responsibility is to them. In our new...
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Washington, DC —The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) expands its support of arts-based community development with recommended grants for the fourth year of the NEA's Our Town program. NEA Chairman Jane Chu announces today that the a...
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“If a child of mine had just been murdered I would find it hateful if somebody saw that as a means of making money.”
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Is Queen Elizabeth II trying to tell her subjects something?
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One morning in February, Matthew Allain, the senior managing director of the Leo Group, a private wealth-management company, visited a town house on Central Park West in order to discuss an unusual acquisition. The town house was the hea...
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Back in 2012 we featured a brief video about a small automata that could almost perfectly mimic the song of a bird. Using mechanics similar to a clock, the fully automated wind-up device sucks air into a small bellows and forces it throu...
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The Middle East may not seem the obvious place to seek the rising stars of contemporary art. Yet works from the region has become increasingly sought after by collectors, with the “hottest things” including an Iranian painter in his 30s,...
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Conformity isn't for everyone. Some kids are quickly tagged with the label "Does not play well with other children." Others grow up to become introverts, recluses, or people who see no need to keep up with the Joneses. If any character i...
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He is responsible for some of the world's most iconic logos. Now a new show reveals designer Ivan Chermayeff's secret life as a rubbish collector He has sprinkled America with the bright red Os of Mobil gas stations , filled the ski...
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Goldmsiths, the University of London college home to one of the world’s most prestigious art departments, will soon build a public gallery behind that department’s home in South East London, The Art Newspaper reports. In orde...
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Calling all wordsmiths, logophiles, and book worms: if you haven’t yet had the chance to view Marvin and Ruth Sackner‘s extensive collection of word art on display at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, you have just a few weeks l...
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The new season at the Y will include a tribute to Dylan Thomas, an evening with Jimmy Page, a conversation with Amy Poehler and a reading by Kazuo Ishiguro, among many other events.
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The new season at the Y will include a tribute to Dylan Thomas, an evening with Jimmy Page, a conversation with Amy Poehler and a reading by Kazuo Ishiguro, among many other events.
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Earning an estimated $75 million, Robert Downey Jr. has topped Forbes' ranking of highest paid actors for the second year in a row . As Entertainment Weekly notes , this is all the more impressive considering Downey Jr. released only one...
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ABC's "Rising Star" fell to a ratings low for the show Sunday night, according to early numbers from Nielsen.
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“Meticulously drawn and colored, and annotated with historical information, Mr. Tierney’s paper-doll books are not just for children — and some are not for children at all. His aim, he often said, was to contribute to the visual li...
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“The way it was handled has created a situation we fear is damaging to the Women’s Project’s reputation, especially as it typifies the very thing we are committed to fighting — the lack of acknowledgment of the contribu...
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05.07.14-07.31.14 Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, review written by Marco Tagliafierro
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When the a cappella group Voices received James Ray's arrangement for a Disney medley that included "You Can Fly" from "Peter Pan," "Let's Go Fly a Kite" from "Mary Poppins" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" from "Dumbo," they did not dis...
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Pop diva Beyonce is certainly no stranger to getting folks hot and bothered, and she did so once again by posting a teaser for the eagerly anticipated erotic drama "Fifty Shades of Grey" on her Instagram account over the weekend.
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Home to a rich food culture, India boasts cuisine that is among the most expansive and diverse in the world. While dishes like Tikka Masala have found their way onto menus around the globe, lesser-known offerings that are nonetheless sat...
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A fifth season of Louis C.K.'s critically acclaimed comedy "Louie" will be heading to FX.
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"Water is another matter, it has no direction but its own bright grace..." --Pablo Neruda WATER WORKS at Ojai's Porch Gallery . The Dark Bob. Water is an emblem of fluidity in the material world. In dream analysis, water is a common Jung...
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If you thought Rex Reed's reviews of Melissa McCarthy were harsh, his recent assessment of James Franco's debut as a theater director is even more withering.
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Ah, geez, get that snow gear cleaned. "Fargo" the series is returning.
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“The fact that a public work like this [is] going ahead in the very centre of one of our most famous concert series, on the BBC … there’s a sense of making up and making good, of expunging a lot of what was so bad about...
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Only in Berlin can you wake up, walk to your window, draw the curtains and be greeted by none other than some hot pink historic piping... Designed to prevent the city from becoming submerged by high groundwater levels, the pipes, which w...
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The Thanatron, a lethal contraption built by Jack Kevorkian to expedite assisted suicides -- earning him the nickname “Dr. Death” -- is now at possibly the only museum that would relish showing it.
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The Smithsonian Institute, run by the US government and based in Washington, DC, has reportedly been invited to set up shop overseas with a new outpost in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, according to the Guardian. London may...
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Lucy Davies gets a sneak preview of an eye-opening new exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery
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In pictures: rare colour photographs offer a glimpse into Russian history
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“‘It’s a different experience, that appeals to people who are not necessary theatergoers,’ said Mr Jackson. ‘We see people just sit and relax into the atmosphere, and feel more included in the whole experien...
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If the artwork is on train tracks, is it still called street art? Rail art? Either way, we’re loving this series by Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo in which he cleverly converts the horizontal lines of train tracks into a canvas. The ser...
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SFB's Paris season has works by Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon and Jerome Robbins: Morris's Maelstrom is still shockingly original using the simplest of means It wasn't so long ago that classical choreography was officially deemed to ...
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This year's Latitude festival provided a powerful lesson for theatre programmers audiences are braver and more adventurous than they might think It is early morning in the arena at Latitude and the queue of festivalgoers at one of the co...
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http://blog.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/wp-content/audio/Ra-Sun_Berkeley-Lecture_1971.mp3 A pioneer of “ Afrofuturism ,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a memb...
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by Kelly Badal Set on 12 acres of private land within a 140-acre indigenous forest, Giraffe Manor is an ivy-covered 1930s colonial mansion-turned-hotel, with stunning art deco interiors to match. But the true stars of this...
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The Black Keys' performance at Latitude was practised and thunderous but faintly troubling, says Pete Naughton
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A group of disgruntled artists have taken a stand against Google's stronghold on the Digital Revolution exhibition in London. But will the hackers become the stars? A group called Hack the Art World has created a virtual alternative exhi...
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The best internet radio stations from pop to soul, classical to community radio, selected by Pete Naughton
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According to a report in the New York Times by Scott Reyburn, auction houses are (surprise!) hoping to get collectors of high-ticket contemporary items interested in buying historic works too in an effort to invigorate some sleepy corner...
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Arab art is hitting the global art world with the force of a haboob , a summer sandstorm. A lot of the credit goes to Edge of Arabia . The initiative is the brainchild of two artists, Stephen Stapleton (British/Norwegian) and Ahmed Mater...
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The stars of Pageant: The Musical welcomed 2014 Miss Teen United States winner Abby DePhillips, 2014 Miss New Jersey Teen USA contestant Isabelle Varga and the cast of the Kennedy Center production of Side Show on July 20, 2014! Click fo...
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Tony winner Jessie Mueller , Jake Epstein , Jarrod Spector and the cast of Beautiful had a few special guests in the audience on the weekend of July 19: Tony winner James Earl Jones , who will headline You Can't Tak...
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Who needs Les Mouches when you've got 54 Below? Tony winner and Broadway legend Patti LuPone has signed a multi-year deal with 54 Below. LuPone will play two two-week engagements at the swanky venue each year through 2016. The agreem...
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Bonnie Langford, Joe Pasquale and Todd Carty are to star in a UK tour of the Monty Python musical Spamalot. The musical will tour from January 15, 2015, when it opens at the Manchester Opera…
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Pageant: The Musical has extended off-Broadway at the Davenport Theatre. Initially set to shutter on September 1, the production will now play through September 21. Directed by Matt Lenz, Pageant plays Monday, Saturday and Sunday evening...
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Craige Els is to play Miss Trunchbull in the West End production of Matilda the Musical from this autumn, taking over from Alex Gaumond. Els, who has previously appeared in West End shows including Mamma…
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More information is coming to light about the previously reported stage adaptation of the First Wives Club , which is eyeing Broadway in fall 2015 following a run in Chicago. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who wrote the hit 1996 movie and is...
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Get ready because The Bachelor is on the hunt for its newest contestants! While we here at Broadway.com are probably going to pass on applying, we do have some sexy Broadway studs in mind who we wouldn’t mind swooning over week aft...
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Stage and screen funny guy Mario Cantone got into the groove on July 18! He spent the evening at Here Lies Love , the off-Broadway disco-dancing musical about the life of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos. Directed by Alex Timbers,...
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The BBC spent £6 million less on talent in 2013/14, the Corporation’s latest annual report claims, with a £194 million bill for its star presenters and performers representing a 15% fall in wages over the…
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Don't tell Mama! Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has extended her run as Sally Bowles opposite Tony winner Alan Cumming as the Emcee in Cabaret , until November 9. The Roundabout Theatre Company revival began perform...
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The box office is now open for Puppet Shakespeare Players’ production of Puppet Titus Andronicus off-Broadway. The comedic take on Shakespeare’s most gruesome tale will begin performances on July 24 at Theatre Row’s Bec...
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Craige Els is preparing to throw that hammer in London’s Matilda ! He will start performances as Miss Trunchbull from September. Matilda Shapland and Violet Tucker will also join Tasha Chapple and Lottie Sicilia in the title role f...
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“It’s so bracing!” We’re all familiar with the poster for Skegness, with John Hassall’s rosy-cheeked and portly fisherman complete with seaboots and sou’wester frolicking on an otherwise deserted beach, but to a cynical eye it…
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Also: North Carolina Poet Laureate Valerie Macon resigns; David Orr on James Franco's poetry.
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Greg Iles sets his thrillers in the antebellum river city of Natchez, Miss. His latest book, Natchez Burning, pulls from true stories of the racial violence that gripped the state 50 years ago.
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Here’s a bit of good news. Next month fifteen adults with learning disabilities will become the first students to graduate with a diploma in performance making from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and…
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Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story celebrates its official opening night on July 21 at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center. The off-Broadway bio-musical, directed and choreographed by Denis Jones, stars Z...
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Branding of a teaser campaign for new tv network FYI - for your Imagination, Innovation, and Inspiration. Also prints for new shows focus on foodie pursuits, home design, makeover themes and other. Check out the whole project here, it is...
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Learning to read all over again
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A British navy officer told his Irish Volunteer son he could not return home
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Penny
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The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere
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Alcohol sees young women being stretchered away to welfare tent and young men being semi-conscious
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False friends and Boston
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Jessie Burton, Eimear McBride and John Kelly on the importance of style and linguistic vitality in your work
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And he hopes to do Jennifer Hudson proud.
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Actor James Garner, best known for his roles in hit TV shows Maverick and The Rockford Files, has died. He was 86 years old.
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Shaun Thompson, the man behind hit fitness programs Insanity and Hip Hop Abs, says he got his big break after he gained the strength to leave an abusive relationship and pursue his dreams.
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A ?terrao" is an oasis in the urban landscape. The reddish tone of a soccer field turns into a stage of the resistance of popular soccer. These fields are increasingly rare to see because of property speculation and land occupation. Some...
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James Garner, star of classic TV shows Maverick and The Rockford Files , died Saturday at age 86. TV critic Eric Deggans says he pioneered playing a new character: the "unhero."
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Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock n...
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When the subject of race comes up in his MFA writing workshop, author Matthew Salesses says, it usually feels traumatic — a burden personal to writers of color.
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After a premiere at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival this September, Yale MFA alum company Old Sound Room will present their adaptation of author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman's short stories – October in the Chair & ...
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It’s 30 degrees in the shade - in Thuringia, people are dancing, listening to sound experimenters at work and then cooling off in the lake. Melt is an electronic music festival in a unique setting.
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A series of Illustrations for Hyundai's #BecauseFutbol World Cup campaign based on fan quotes.
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BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our July 19th SIP round-up Check out part one HERE. Yesterday's SIPs come from Broadway's NEWSIES, HEATHERS, the Nationa...
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The Michael Grandage Company production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh, starring Daniel Radcliffe and the critically acclaimed West End cast, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage, ends its Broadway run today af...
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Program The Stroll (2011, composed by Bryan Yamami & Masato Baba) Performed by TAIKOPROJECT (Los Angeles) with special guests: Eiichi Saito (Kodo, Japan), Michelle de Nevares (Argentina), Oliver Kirby (UK), Anton Lock (Australia), Gr...
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On July 19 at the Theatre Centre, Hillar Liitoja unveils Red Light Green Light, a dance piece which is co-choreographed by ballerina Magdalena Vasko
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The British comedy troupe has reunited for what they say is the final time in Monty Python Live (Mostly). Fans around the world will watch the last show Sunday, either in London or via live stream.
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Holler If Ya Hear Me, written by Todd Kreidler and directed by Kenny Leon, plays its final Broadway performance today after 30 performances. The Tupac inspired musical originally opened on June 19 at the Palace Theatre.
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Today in 2008, Passing Strange closed at the Belasco Theatre, where it ran for 165 performances. Passing Strange is a rock musical about a young African American's artistic journey of self-discovery in Europe, drawing on heavy elements o...
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jamie Oldaker toured the world drumming for the likes of Eric Clapton, among others, but he never lost touch with Oklahoma, where he honed the skills that enabled him to spend his life making music.
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Garner was known for wise-cracking, tough-guy characters who were not afraid to bend the rules. NPR's Arun Rath talks with biographer Jon Winokur about the actor's prolific career.
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Actor James Garner, best known for his roles'Maverick' and 'The Rockford Files' has passed away at the age of 86.
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Author Douglas Coupland tells NPR's Arun Rath that he's not exactly sure how the lead character of his new novel entered his mind. ( This story originally aired on Morning Edition on April 19, 2014.)
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"There's nothing scarier than the neighbors," says Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero. His latest zombie tale is a comic book set in New York City called The Empire of the Dead.
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This week's event featured performances from the cast of CHICAGO, including Bianca Marroquin, Amra-Faye Wright, Carol Woods, David Bushman and Nathan Madden. Click below to watch clips from 'Me and My Baby,' 'When You're Good to Mama,' a...
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On Monday, July 21st the Theater People Podcast welcomes two-time Tony-nominee Robin de Jesus. De Jesus discusses making his professional acting debut in the cult-hit indie film CAMP, making his Broadway debut as an understudy in RENT, c...
