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Fashion editor, creative director, stylist and a mega-star in his own right, Nicola Formichetti embodies contemporary creativity. From collaborating with the likes of Lady Gaga, Uniqlo and Mugler, Formichetti has a unique and thoughtful ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comLaura Heywood is vivacious, entrepreneurial and full of passion. She grew up in Oakland, California and, after attending the University of Puget Sound in Washington, found herself back in California to start her career as an intern with ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comHipsters may value social progress, but their coffee habits say otherwise. That's according to the team at Made in a Free World (MIAFW), a group dedicated to raising awareness on how consumers support illegal slave operations -- often wi...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comToday -- finally! -- is the day. After a horrific winter featuring the coldest recorded temperatures in the past 81 years combined with a flu vaccine of historic inefficacy, spring has finally shown up. The icicles have melted. An intrep...
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“The Seattle public TV station KCTS-9 has laid off most of its production staff, including employees who have spent 30-plus years with the station, as part of a plan to shove locally produced series off the television screen and on... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Flavorwire
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or experience they’ve enjoyed most in the past ... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from GalleristMr. Deitch is planning a summer street art extravaganza in Coney Island that will feature over a dozen artists.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtCoutts takes the £30,000 prize for The Iceberg, a memoir about her husband's illness
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from MAKE » Category: Art & DesignThere are so many amazing ways in which Makers express themselves in their making. From ingenious electronics to useful crafts to gorgeous works of art, making takes myriad, often hybrid forms. One of the most consistently offbeat and en...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArchDaily
Bjarke Ingels has built a reputation for formulating new urban hybrids. From merging power plants with ski slopes to reintroducing nature to the workspace, Ingels’ well-respected practice BIG is missioned to realize the fictitious ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Fubiz™
Situé en Russie, le lac Baïkal est connu pour son eau très claire, qui dans les mois les plus froids de l’hiver se transforme en cristaux de glace turquoise. Le photographe Alexey Trofimov a capturé des images de ce lac glacé, et n... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“There seems to be no end to the creativity the Bible engenders – which makes it a crying shame the Museum of Biblical Art has to close, and a tragedy if we cannot acknowledge one of the great sources of modern culture.” - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ARTnewsBack for a second year, Paris Photo L.A. brings together 80 international galleries at the Paramount Pictures Studios selling work that spans the history photography. Some of the major exhibitors include M+B, OHWOW, and Aperture. Some hi...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIn this car, Pavarotti would play second fiddle to the driver. Jeff Sullivan captured this video of his Uber driver beautifully belting out some opera and uploaded it to YouTube. "He was playing [opera] on his radio and I told him how mu...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIn anticipation of Mother's Day, comedian mom Ahna Tessler embarked on a creative project that she thought would be the perfect gift for herself. Tessler used Photoshop to put herself back in the family pictures that showed her husband a...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Art in America - Most RecentPainter and art historian Jonathan Weinberg remembers the crumbling Hudson River piers of the 1970s and '80s, a zone of gay cruising and maverick art projects, predating today's gentrification and new Whitney.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comGilda's Club of New York City honored Amy Poehler on Monday during Gildafest '15, the organization's first annual night of comedy at Caroline's on Broadway. Poehler received the Gilda Radner Award For Innovation In Comedy. In 1995, Gilda...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtAs the Lancashire comedian's new sitcom Car Share airs on BBC One, we take a look back at some of his funniest moments and jokes
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.com"We originally came into music a bridge builder, as a way to have something to offer as we were traveling," says Leah Song of the band Rising Appalachia. Song, her sister Chloe Smith, their guitar player and percussionist make up the fou...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArtsBeatThe group's second album, “Sound & Color," topped Billboard's album chart.
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- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from designboomwith its view of the city and surrounding hills, the sixteenth-century fortress receives some of the most important pieces from gormley's career along with his more recent studies and investigations into the human body. The post antony g...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from MAKE » Category: Art & DesignWhat would you do with a professional 3D printer? Read more on MAKE The post How a Pro-Grade 3D Printer Helped Evolve My Prop Design Business appeared first on Make: .
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“Perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the widely acclaimed Empire Brass Quintet, Smedvig enjoyed a busy career as a soloist with major orchestras, including those in Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati. In 1973, the 19-y... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ARTnewsThis week’s New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece by Emma Allen about moving a block of concrete from the Whitney’s former Upper East Side location to its brand-new Renzo Piano–designed building in Chelsea. Naturally that b...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
One of the most unusual sea creatures looks like a jellyfish, but it’s actually more than one organism. While beautiful to look at, the creature can give you a painful sting. Unlike a jellyfish, the Man O’ War, or Bluebottle,... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from PetaPixel » InspirationMagnum photographer David Alan Harvey recently gave this inspiring 18-minute talk at TEDxVerona titled “Life is Art.” He shares the story of his own journey in photography starting from when he was diagnosed with polio at 6 y...
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Stephanie K Clark builds homes from swatches of cloth and spools of thread, embroidering tiny dwellings which appear to absorb the sun and moonlight from her small-scale scenes. The structures and their surrounding landscaping appear in ... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMuhammad “no longer interests me,” Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comJosh Groban gave the entire Internet chills when he dropped the first track from "Stages," his new album of Broadway covers. It was a version of "All I Ask Of You" from Phantom of the Opera," featuring vocals from Kelly Clarkson, and it ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMs. Crough played the youngest daughter on the hit ’70s sitcom starring David Cassidy and Shirley Jones.
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Nina Simone was a powerful force to be reckoned with, strong on politics and even stronger on expressing her views, … Read More - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from culture360.asef.org
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC) in Japan has a visual art residency in Autumn 2015 on the theme of ‘Navigation and Trajectory’. Applications invited from individual contemporary artists worldwide.... Read Mo... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“What does it mean when what you own is essential to who you are? In our everyday grasp of owning things, we tag it materialism, consumerism, consumption. But I trust you’ll agree that the possession of books is not identical to th... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Flavorwire
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Eleven buildings have been announced as winners of Docomomo US‘ 2015 Modernism in America Awards … (#ModernismAwards), of which includes the Frederick Dunn-designed Lewis and Clark Branch Library that is currently scheduled ... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“The conflagration in Baltimore is a reminder that art’s power can work both in service of change and against it. Watching a fictional story is not precisely the same thing as bearing witness. And when consuming that story be... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Flavorwire
Emma Stone is Woody Allen’s new favorite actress to pair with older actors, seeming to serve as a proxy … Read More - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Behance Network Featured Projects
[Fr] Rendez-vous, le festival de la France en Croatie Après le succès du festival Croatie, la voici, organisé en France à l?automne 2012, qui a mis à l?honneur le patrimoine culturel et la création contemporaine d'un pays situé au carref... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
While photography is largely dependent on talent, a good camera also helps. For Meagan V. Blazier, a point-and-shoot is enough. Related posts: Photographer Tapes a $50 Lens To His P&S Camera To Take Stunning Macro Snowflake Photos B... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Archinect
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So much of what we see and react to through the screens in our hands and on our desks is based on the Real World — like, the place your feet touch the ground and everything. So, let’s talk about that. Coyotes’ feet are (again... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“In the journal Musicae Scientiae, Michael Silverman and Jon Hallberg of the University of Minnesota describe a small program they created and implemented in which music students—specifically, classical pianists and guitarists—spen... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtWhile presenters Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford were engaging company, this programme's investigation into the value of the British rail network proved inconclusive, says Michael Hogan
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from designboomfrance's distinctive timber pavilion by x-tu architects is ready to be showcased to the public where it will hope to symbolize the country's deep-rooted cultural and gastronomical background. The post france pavilion gears up for the ope...
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red-haired - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalTomkins, Gibbons, Scheidt, J. S. Bach, Jones, Kidane, Kalabis, and W.F. Bach: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Milton Court, London, 27.4.2015 (MB) Tomkins – Barafostus Dreame Gibbons – Pavan in G Scheidt – Also geht’s, also steht’s J.S. Ba...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzBroadway.com Audience Choice Award winner (and Broadway.com super fan ) Darren Criss returns to the Great White Way as our favorite internationally ignored song stylist in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on April 29. The Glee star recently spo...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksReading Roald Dahl’s deliciously dark humour as a kid gave Squirrel Boy author Dave Lowe the determination to write his own funny books - and the reassurance that even a master storyteller doesn’t find it easy When I was eight or nine, m...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureKurt Vonnegut once famously described book critics as donning armor to battle a hot fudge sundae. Jillian Tamaki takes on Harry Potter in SuperMutant Magic Academy , but she's tossing marshmallows.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Various interested parties have informed us that one of the anti-Kiev pianist’s two Toronto recitals next month has been cancelled by the venue for lack of sales. A screenshot of the cancellation has been put out by pro-Kiev source... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe still blonde Idina Menzel stopped by Good Day L.A. on April 29 to chat about her upcoming world tour and more. After explaining she continues to do that "witchy thing" when belting "Defying Gravity," the Tony winn...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzJosh Radnor, two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz and more Broadway alums have been tapped for PBS’ Civil War drama Mercy Street . Executive produced by Ridley Scott, Roxann Dawson and Jeremy Webb will helm the six-part series, wh...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMozart, Turina and Schumann: Vienna Piano Trio, Wigmore Hall, London, 28.4.2015 (AS) Mozart: Piano Trio in C, K548 Turina: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35 Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63 Given that the Vienna Piano Trio has been...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > BooksMr. Mankiewicz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for “I Want to Live!,” also wrote episodes of television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI met Jon Pressick a few years ago when I wrote a book about sex . That's what happens when you write a book about sex. You get to meet Jon Pressick. He has talked about sex to some of the coolest sex people in America, and lived to tell...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
HEA contributor and bestselling romance author Donna Kauffman recaps last night's NCIS.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzCasting has been set for Dusty , a new multi-media show celebrating the music of 60’s pop icon Dusty Springfield. Written by Kim Weild and Duncan Sibbald with dramaturg Jack Bradley, the production is directed by Chris Cowey. Dusty...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIf Borges’s Library of Babel is a massive, amorphous store of written documents, Jonny Love’s Unconcious Library is the opposite. Although it houses over 100,000 books, ladders, and scrolls, it contains virtually no concrete information....
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has […] The post Violinist Pekka Kuusisto Named Newest St Paul Chamber Orch Artistic Partner appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music New...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe Emirate of Sharjah continues to position itself as a leading partner in the Middle East and Africa for writers, poets, intellectuals and lovers of the written word with the identity launch of the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) and the ...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzStars aligned for a good cause on April 27, when Patti LuPone, Bobby Cannavale and more performed a one-night-only benefit reading of The Rose Tattoo for the Acting Company at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by Doug Hughes. Clic...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Art RSS FeedIt’s a hard-hitting sight that will leave many in contemplation: black dolls hanging from the branches of a tree in Baltimore, Maryland.
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- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Seen and Heard International[flag code=”us” size=”24″ text=”yes”] CCM Ballet Ensemble Spring Dance Concert: Jiang Qi and Michael Tevlin (directors), University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH. 24.4.20...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThomas Edison once said, "I don't fail. I have just figured out 1000 ways it didn't work." There's so much truth to that statement, but most of us become blindsided by that word we fear most: Failure. The 'F' word. Really it's just a bun...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsDaily Herald Classical music runs in the family for Utah Valley Symphony duo Daily Herald 5 always brings a smile to their faces as they are all too familiar with its musical sound: The Michaelis played that same classical music when the...
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When the New York Philharmonic awarded its front seat to a guy there was a general shrug and a sigh: that’s how things are, right? But during the interregnum since Glenn Dicterow’s retirement, the orchestra has been very capa... - Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Seen and Heard International[flag code=”ar” size=”24″ text=”yes”] Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón. Conductor: Ira Levin, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 21.4.2015. (JSJ) Cast: Werther: Mickael Sp...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAtkinson picks up the story of the Todd family, with Ursula’s ‘glorious’ brother Teddy centre stage, but how does it compare to its predecessor? Kate Atkinson’s previous novel, Life After Life , played an ingenious game with time. Over&n...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalVarious “The Turning of the Year”: Michael Maniacci (male soprano); Annalisa Pappano, David Morris, Stephen Goist, Larry Lipnik, Joanna Blendulf (violas de gamba). Catacoustic Consort, Church of the Redeemer, Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAustralians can’t get their heads around the fact that intellectuals can have rigour and a sense of humour – just don’t ask them to be agreeable as well Continue reading...
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One of the players who will be voting on May 11 reckons it’s a four-way election: 1 Thielemann 2 Jansons 3 Kirill Petrenko 4 Ivan Fischer Take this whispered tip cum grano salis (as Mahler would have said). There are presently more... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and Schumann: Richard Goode (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 21.4.2015 (BJ) Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K. 540 Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 Brahms: Eight Pia...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzA new rock goddess is moving six inches forward/five inches back…and he does not have a beard! Glee star and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Darren Criss begins performances in Hedwig and the Angry Inch beginning April 2...
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The technique behind Chilly's irrepressibly catchy chamber pop - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway Buzz1984 will return to London's Playhouse Theatre this summer. Based on George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel and adapted and co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, the production will begin previews on June 12 and play a l...
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The flamboyant violinist plays concertos by Brahms & Bruch - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The New YorkerView the cartoonist’s photos of Bottle Beach at Dead Horse Bay.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The New YorkerEvery Wednesday evening at the Macomb Correctional Facility, a prison thirty minutes north of Detroit, ten men leave their cells to congregate around a table and talk about poetry. For two hours, in a white-walled, cinder-block room, the...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I would recommend this book to people who like surprising, scary stories' Continue reading...
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The Montenegro guitarist Miloš Karadaglić has signed for the US with CAMI, specifically with its boss Jean-Jacques Chabron, mastermind of the global Lang Lang brand. This is cool news for Milos, but it’s a dunk in iced water for I... - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhen I mention that I write romance novels at cocktail parties, one of the most frequent responses from men and women alike is "Oh, like the Fabio books?" When the New Yorker wrote about HarperCollins's recent acquisition of Harlequin to...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
18 year old VC ‘Rising Star’ […] The post NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC ‘Rising Star’ Simone Porter – Prokofiev ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Suite [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's L... - Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comLibraries are the great American equalizer. Whether you are young or old, rich or poor, atheist or devout, have a PhD or are a high school dropout, your public library welcomes you. They have no choice, as Roz Warren explains in her scre...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureLev AC Rosen's dystopian thriller, set in an underwater New York City, is an expert mix of the sci-fi and hardboiled genres. Reviewer Jason Heller calls it a nervy crime caper with hidden depths.
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNPR's Robert Siegel talks with author Art Spiegelman about how his book Maus — the very antithesis of Nazi propaganda — was purged from Moscow stores because it has a large swastika on the cover.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalRimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Dvořák Daniil Trifonov (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra/Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.4.2015 (RB) Rimsky-Korsakov –The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh – Prelude Rachm...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe Sound and the Fury has already extended its return engagement off-Broadway. The show, directed by John Collins and created by Elevator Repair Service, will begin previews in The Public Theater’s Martinson Theater on May 14 ...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from - Art RSS FeedLook over the shoulders of the headline figures of the mid-20th-century British cultural world – from Cecil Beaton and Stephen Spender to Cyril Connolly and Lucian Freud – and you will find, standing behind them, a languorous, attenuated...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAmy Schumer strikes again -- making us laugh while also reminding us how ridiculous our beauty standards are. On an April 28 episode of the show on Comedy Central, Schumer parodied the (rather obnoxious) trend of men assuring women of th...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSchumann, Webern, Poulenc, Bach, Boccherini, Bloch, and Tchaikovsky: Julian Schwarz (cello), Sara Daneshpour (piano), St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 19.4.2015 (BJ) Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 Webern: Two Pie...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureIn 2013, three young women who had vanished years earlier escaped from a house where they had been held captive. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, along with writer Mary Jordan, discuss their new memoir.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'One of the most captivating books I've read' Continue reading...
- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA fast-paced account of Greenpeace activists’ ordeal in a Russian jail raises questions about the future of the environmental movement Almost from the start of the international oil boom of the late 19th century, Russia was a major playe...
- Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from NYT > BooksMr. Leader brings an evenhanded approach to Bellow’s life in this biography, the first of two planned volumes, but the book takes time to find its feet.
