- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comWhat does it mean to love a book? Should it be relatable ? Beautiful? Must you share common interests? Is it not just as exciting to curl up with one you don't fully understand? Today is National Book Lovers Day, so what better time to r...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from artnet News
In an official partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, Ryan McGinness has erected 50 signs throughout Manhattan. The red-and-black compositions are the approximate shape and material of a standard street sign, bu... - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comDIY treehouses tend to, well, look it. That's not the case for this incredible home in Seattle, Washington, featured in the video above. It is closer to being a mini-mansion in the tree. Perhaps we need a new term for a structure like th...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comAs chairman of the California Film Commission, Steve Dayan has championed the cause of fighting runaway production and giving companies more incentive to film in Los Angeles.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAttention queer women: there may very soon be emojis just for you! From designer Kimberly Linn comes a series of humorous emojis intended to be used by women who have sex with women. While not necessarily available on a smartphone -- yet...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comGay men and vaginas -- historically, the two are worlds apart. So what happens when you ask a gay man to sit down and draw one? This is the question that led Keith Wilson and Shannon O'Malley to curate an ongoing public art project and u...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThere are many amazing characters and creatures described in the Hebrew Bible, but elephants are not among them. Imagine the surprise of a team of archaeologists who were in the midst of their fourth summer of excavations at an ancient s...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThis past week, an Indian fashion photographer by the name of Raj Shetye released photos of a new series called "The Wrong Turn" and well, it definitely took a wrong turn. The photos depict a bus gang rape that unintentionally reflects a...
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The top stories from the week of August 4-8. - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Cool Hunting
1. Seeing is Hearing MIT engineers have developed a technique to "listen" to sound without the use of a microphone—audio can be recovered just from video by analyzing how an inanimate object (such as a bag... - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comFrom the early civilization days, human beings believed in culture. Every society practiced one or the other form of art or craft. Despite the rapid industrialization of the world, the rural communities continue to be the real flag beare...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtJohn Lanchester reveals how the mysterious language of finance - from the dead cat bounce to the Laffer curve - has helped the bankers make a killing
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThe award-winning author on the perils of Infant Cynicism Syndrome
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Verge - Culture Posts
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtIt's about time we celebrated the English radical whose writings lit the fuse for American independence, says Melvyn Bragg
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtRoger Sterling is universally adored by Mad Men's legion of fans, but as filming for the final season comes to an end, John Slattery makes his debut as a film director in God's Pocket, a project that is as far removed from that world as ...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtAhead of our live stream on Verdi's La Traviata at Glyndebourne on Sunday August 10 at 5.45pm, listen to an in-depth analysis of the opera about a 'tart with a heart'
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comThe citys good humour seems to have become its official characteristic, bolstered by all this Commonwealth cheer. But of course, its a bit more complicated than that Glasgow is now established as one of the worlds friendliest cities, per...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThe brutal sport is attracting an international following and multi-million-strong TV audience, says Christopher Midddleton
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtBrian Blessed, the actor, sheds a tear as he discovers a "real-life Oliver Twist" among his ancestors on Who Do You Think You Are?
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtCara Delevingne's cross-eyed goof-out is now more familiar than her model pose, whilst even the immaculate Duchess of Cambridge is good for a grimace
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Verge - Culture Posts
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dance | The GuardianMark Baldwin | Mariinsky Ballet This remarkable project sees nine dancers from the Royal Ballet and Rambert, five musicians, the celebrated South African choir and Paul Simon collaborators, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, all teaming up with yo...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.org2015 is going to be a very BIG year for Shaun the Sheep ! Not only is he starring in his own movie in early 2015, but it has just been announced that 120 individually designed giant Shaun statues will be popping up in central locations i...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > Theater“My Life Is a Musical” at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is Adam Overett’s inspired new musical.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > ArtsMr. Pincher was a journalist whose career was spent unearthing exclusive stories from the world of double agents and secret weapons.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThe camera doesn’t shy away from blood and viscera, but doesn’t put them right in your face, either.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ArtsBeatThe camera doesn't shy away from blood and viscera, but doesn't put them right in your face, either.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgWalter Richard Sickert (1860-‐1942) was the most influential and versatile British painter, print-maker, teacher and writer on art of the twentieth century. Celebrations, Dieppe is without doubt an iconic example of Sickert’s...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Metropolitan Museum of Art launched today a new iPad app, 82nd & Fifth, in which 100 curators from across the Museum talk about 100 works of art from the Met's collection that changed the way they see the world—one work, one cur...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe first major retrospective exhibition ever presented of paintings by the imaginative Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) will premiere at the National Gallery of Art , Washington, from February 1 through May 3,...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgIt starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like origami art. And then it crawls away. This new kind of robot could someday be used in space exploration, to sl...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgKnown for his grand wall painting depicting Pope Francis as a superhero (Super Pope), Mauro Pallotta , also known, as Maupal is much more than a street artist. This has been highlighted in his most recent exhibitions, where he has been n...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgNienke Bakker (b. 1972) has recently been appointed Curator of Van Gogh Paintings at the Van Gogh Museum . She is now responsible for the collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, the largest in the world with more than 200 paintings....
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgLocated in Victoria Tower Gardens, adjacent to the Palace of Westminster, spectra is a column of intense white light punctuating the London sky from dusk until dawn for seven nights. Created by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, spectra first ...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgMagnan Metz announces Freeze Frame, an exhibition of new works by Ewerdt Hilgemann. Freeze Frame coincides with the artist’s Park Avenue installation: Moments in a Stream, which consists of seven large scale sculptures placed along ...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgBonhams second sale this year of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art in London on October 7th features a variety of masterpieces from across the region. Building on the success of the April sale, which saw 86% of lots sold by valu...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThis summer, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the work of Marc Quinn, one of the leading artists of his generation, in the Formal Garden. Quinn’s Cybernetically Engineered Cloned and Grown Rabbit, 2004 and Wilder Shores of Desire, ...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgAndrea Rosen Gallery is presenting Wavelength, a project-based exhibition of Matthew Ronay’s meditative daily drawings. Realizing an integral pillar of the Gallery 2 mission, the exhibition sheds light on an unexplored aspect of the...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgRoyal Institute of British Architects Competitions and Bristol City Council announced the launch of an international competition to design a new arena for Bristol. The Bristol Arena project is a large indoor multipurpose arena, to be loc...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Chrysler dedicates its first free Family Day since reopening to a celebration for America’s favorite firefighter: Smokey Bear. August 9 marks the iconic character’s 70th birthday and the debut of the Museum’s exhibitio...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgDisgraced wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday after he was found guilty of manufacturing fake vintages and selling them for nearly $30 million. The Indonesian-born 37-year-old, once considered one of t...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgIn January 2013 the ICA launched On the Road, a satellite exhibition program that seeks to expand the ICA's footprint beyond the gallery, serving its mission to support regional contemporary artists as well as significant artists based o...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgFrench singer Yvette Giraud, who captured the hearts of an adoring Japanese fan base during a career spanning several decades, has died aged 97, her family announced on Friday. Giraud was even decorated by the Emperor of Japan, where she...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Belo Collection of Texas Art — a thoughtfully-curated selection of 300 lots of artwork and photography, including David Bates' seminal The Blue Heron — will appear at Heritage Auctions on Oct. 18 as part of a day-long prese...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe finest known 1681 Elephant & Castle halfcrown highlights a wealth of British material in Heritage 's upcoming World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction, scheduled for September 3 - 5 in Long Beach, in conjunction with the Long Beach Co...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe New Museum announced that First Look, its ongoing series of digital projects, will now be co-curated and co-presented by longtime affiliate Rhizome. First Look was launched in 2012 by New Museum curator Lauren Cornell with “Imag...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Aspen Art Museum will open the doors of its new, 33,000-square-foot Shigeru Ban-designed building to the public on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The new building, located at 637 East Hyman Avenue in the heart of downtown Aspen, opens dur...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > TheaterThe Goodspeed Opera House’s triumphant production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in East Haddam manages to be both reverent and utterly fresh.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe key to getting a good soft pretzel to brown properly is to dip it in a lye solution, the same stuff that's used to make soap. But a German mom insists it takes much more than that.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNPR's Petra Mayer sees the sights at San Diego Comic-Con with Magicians Trilogy author Lev Grossman — and discusses what happens when wizardly kids have to face an adult world, without mentors.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureGabriel Weston is an ear, nose and throat surgeon. She says writing Dirty Work — about an obstetrician-gynecologist who performs abortions — made her more sensitive to all sides of the debate.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentThe hotly anticipated new stage adaptation of the recent PETER PAN-centric film FINDING NEVERLAND is currently in previews out of town and a preliminary sneak peek of the score for the show is now available to hear.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentAn impressive collection of filmed plays featuring a host of world renowned performers is now available to order via BROADWAY THEATRE ARCHIVE GREAT PERFORMANCES Set 1, which includes the plays DEATH OF A SALESMAN, FOR COLORED GIRLS..., U...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentCelebrate the Oscar-winning composer who wrote high-flying songs for Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, such as 'Moonlight Becomes You' and 'Come Fly With Me' in PBS's JIMMY VAN HEUSEN SWINGIN' WITH FRANK amp BING special, featuring intervie...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content5000 Broadway Productions presents its newest production, Vestments of the Gods, as part of the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. Vestments of the Gods is a musical play written by Owen Panettieri with music...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzWe’re gonna be honest: Things around the Broadway.com offices have gotten really boring the last few weeks. It’s sweltering, it’s humid, and worst of all, no new Broadway shows open until after Labor Day. But never fear...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, August 8, 2014.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPlaybill.com staff members share their wishlists for musicals they'd like to see return to Broadway. From classics to rock operas, Tony-winning hits and rarely-seen flops, here's what made our list.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you about free performances from Rosanne Cash, the casts of Motown and Matilda the Musical … Sutton Foster hops the bus out of Broadway… "Frozen" in summer… and Ton...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar continues exploring the Muslim experience in America with the Broadway opening of Disgraced .
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsVestments of the Gods , a modern-day take on Sophocles' Antigone written in response to LGBT bullying, begins performances at the New York Fringe Festival Aug 9.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPlaybill.com's series features actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they're looking forward to and more.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPlaybill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower shares his eight favorite guilty pleasure musicals.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Playbill.com : News1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead today in his London flat. Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright and then killed himself.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentPRIDE is about the extraordinary true story of two very different communities who unite to defend the same cause. Below, check out a brand new trailer for the film, featuring theatre stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West The...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentThe Hollywood Reporter writes that Random House is publishing a FROZEN chapter book series that will tell what happened after the storyline in Disney's 2013 box office mega-hit.
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Cooking book, bookmarks and complete branding - Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentDeadline writes that Open Road is developing SPOTLIGHT, a film centering on the Boston Globe's investigation into pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. Tom McCarthy directs from a script he co-wrote with Josh Singer The West Wing. Ma...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureThe Marble City is bracing itself for mayhem and merriment, not to mention an estimated 45,000 visitors
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureThis is the fourth in our series of eight short stories on the theme of conflict. The context is the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, but the theme is open to the author’s interpretation. The last story in the series will be c...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureReview: A terrific account of the sporting passions that captivated the Irish before GAA, soccer and rugby
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureAccording to Harper Lee 'some things should happen on soft pages not cold metal'. Her dissenting voice is one of many as digitisation proceeds in its ungainly fashion
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentA great, big Broadway season is on its way, with fourteen productions already slated to open in the next few months. With several weeks until the craziness begins, there is still plenty of time to catch up on what's been going on at Broa...
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TheaterMania.comThe actor, director, and Seinfeld favorite returns to a Neil Simon classic in Los Angeles.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CulturePaperback review
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureReview: This detailed and affectionate account of Richard Hayward’s life restores a measure of prominence to a long-neglected figure
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureIs poetry meant for the ear or the eye?
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureReview: Emily Carroll’s beautiful book is confidently written and lavishly designed
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureReview: A superb new book focusing on people often excluded from the Irish historical narrative
- Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Irish Times - CulturePaperback review
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentThe 2014-2015 season of 'Concerts from the Library of Congress' brings a stellar roster of performers, ensembles and scholars from around the world in commemoration of the 150th birthday of founding patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentThe Old Globe today announced additional performances for the third production of the 2014 Summer Season, Ronald Harwood's comedy Quartet, directed by Richard Seer Other Desert Cities, God of Carnage, The Last Romance. Harwood received a...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentSeveral Tony Award-winners teamed up to bring an adaptation of the 1988 musical LUCKY STIFF to the big screen. Starring Jason Alexander, the late Dennis Farina, Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James, Don Amendolia, Pamela Shaw and Kate Shindle, ...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from The StageSinger/songwriter Shaun Shears can count being the only severely disabled singer on iTunes among his long list of achievements. He is performing his latest show, The Man, the Music, the Panj, at Edinburgh this month…
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The resulting collection captures an authentic slice of Zanzibar caught in a day in Nungwi Fishing Village. The images are untarnished by western influence and I find portray a more real Zanzibar. - Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentIt's time to celebrate Goodspeed Musicals announces a top-notch cast for its brand new, world premiere musical, Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn. The much-anticipated production will run from September 19 through November 30. Official Press O...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThe 2014-15 season of Concerts from the Library of Congress wil bring performers, ensembles and scholars from around the world in commemoration of the 150th birthday of founding patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge - in a lineup that will i...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from TheaterMania.comAnna Fishbeyn takes us on her journey from Russian refugee to all-American material girl.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsSan Diego Music Theatre will present Next to Normal at the North Park Theatre (San Diego, CA) directed and choreographed by Nick DeGruccio, Sept. 26.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentAmas Musical Theatre in association with North Haven Arts and Enrichment will present Broadway'sJosh Grisetti Broadway Bound, Enter Laughing, Alli Mauzey Wicked, Cry-Baby, and Kevin PariseauLegally Blonde in the New York Premiere of Red ...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week or you're just in the mood for a recap, BroadwayWorld's 'this week in pictures' is here to satisfy your end-of-the-week fix Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings ...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from globeandmail - Theatre & PerformanceOn William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in April, the Globe Theatre in London, England, launched a touring eight-actor production of Hamlet that, if all goes according to plan, will visit 205 countries over two years
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThéâtre de Paris, one of France’s most acclaimed theater companies, will present the world premiere of Carey Perloff’s Kinship to star two-time Academy Award nominee, Isabelle Adjani, beginning Oct. 21.
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentCasting has been completed for the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's 'Marjorie Prime,' opening September 21, 2014, at the Center Theatre GroupMark Taper Forum. Directed by Obie Award-winner Les Waters, the profound and engaging new pla...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureFilm isn't dead — not yet, at least. Kodak recently announced that it will keep making film stock for motion pictures despite a dramatic drop in sales, after a handful of high-profile directors advocated for it. But, since the medium's d...
- Friday, August 8, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureDouglas Preston wrote an open letter supporting book publisher Hachette in its dispute with Amazon, which has since spread among his readers and throughout the literary community. More than 900 other writers have signed on, including Joh...
- BWW Exclusive: Preview of INSIDE ACT: HOW TEN ACTORS MADE IT AND HOW YOU CAN TOO- with Tony Yazbeck!Friday, August 8, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentWhy do some actors make it and others don't Ken Womble sets out to find the answer to this question, one that has fascinated and tormented him for years, in his new book, INSIDE ACT How Ten Actors Made it and How You Can Too Hansen Publi...
