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- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comDigital cameras let us take hundreds of photos. We keep them on our phones, somewhere on our laptops, or entrust them to Facebook, with the more advanced among us burning some to DVDs or storing the RAW files on an external hard drive. B...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Fubiz™
Le designer français Frédéric Hamerlak a créé un escalier au design malin et audacieux. Grâce à des LEDs interchangeables, les marches, semblables à des plaques transparentes disposées en zig-zag, ainsi que la rampe, sont illuminées comm... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from DesignFaves
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- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from MarvelousArtists at Kela’s Art Gallery in Kauai, Hawaii, Marshal Blaker and Paul DeSomma have always been inspired by the beauty of ocean waves. They live near the ocean and are never short of inspiration. Using glass of various hues of blue, the...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Design*Sponge
As much as I adore the charm of an older home, there’s something thrilling about - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“You know that if you re-release a cult show like the X-Files that the big fans of those shows are going to tweet that … And all of a sudden you’re getting all this kind of free publicity that’s aimed at exactly t... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comA team of young poets is bringing spoken word to kids that deserve a voice. Project Voice -- a team of educators and writers -- performs spoken word to encourage literacy and creative expression among young students. In celebration of Na...
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Mad Men is finally exiting our lives forever this month, but that doesn’t mean there’s a dearth of good television to watch. To help with our mourning, there will be a ton of programs to check out, especially on Netflix and ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Cool Hunting
In many cities, it's almost too easy to pay $8+ on specialty coffee and a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich in a blink of an eye—before even starting the work day. Placing the spotlight on these daily, offhand choices is the global Live Bel... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ArtsBeat"I’m not just gonna take these last seven episodes and do the greatest hits."
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Director Wes Anderson’s highly distinctive visual style (selective color palette, extensive use of flat space camera moves, symmetrical compositions) has … Read More - Friday, May 1, 2015 from Archinect
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Remember waking up one day to find a mysterious new set of songs with dramatic titles like “Iris (Hold Me … Read More - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Fubiz™
C’est en pleine campagne anglaise que le designer anglais Thomas Heatherwick, présenté en 2012 pour sa remarquable flamme olympique, a inauguré cette étonnante structure architecturale accueillant la distillerie de la marque de gin... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe impact of an increasingly digitalized world has affected all areas of our lives, including the arts. As many creatives embrace new technology to enhance or supersede mediums that are centuries old, others continue to find inspiration...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ARTnewsTo cap off a two-week press blitz leading up to the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building in the Meatpacking District on May 1, First Lady Michelle Obama, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Whitney director Adam Weinberg,...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NYT > ArtsA new program at the Museum of Modern Art will include free screenings, online courses and other events for New York City residents 65 and older.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comCarrie Bradshaw may be the ultimate Vogue fanatic , but when it comes to reading fashion magazines, my interest knows no bounds. Yes, I am that person at the airport who buys six magazines for a two-hour flight. So you can imagine my exc...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe white of Sonny Miller's right eye was red. Fire engine red. He cocked his head to the side all the time, in fact, his shoulders leaned also to the right, I think. Maybe it was from carrying that box around. That box that made my movi...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIt's a familiar story: A handsome stranger moves to town. He's been working so hard, punching his card. And he's got this feeling that he needs to tear up this town. So, of course, he wants to cut loose. But, unfortunately, it's not quit...
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These photographs are a small way of knowing my city in this difficult time. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Hyperallergic
The surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who frequently drew Mohammed for the newspaper has announced he's retiring the character. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Open Culture
It’s not that I don’t appreciate good coffee—I consider it a delicacy. But at the end and the beginning of the day, coffee mostly functions as a caffeine delivery system. But not tea. Tea must be savored, and it must be good. Americans’ ... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from artnet News
Farver shined a light on non-Western artists through major traveling shows. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ArtsBeatA new program at the Museum of Modern Art will include free screenings, online courses and other events for New York City residents 65 and older.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIn this series, I've taken the reader/ potential investor behind the scenes of the business side of making a commercial movie, with much caution thrown in. It is not a guaranteed investment. But it is guaranteed excitement, with these tw...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from PetaPixel » Inspiration
Want to see how the world’s biggest fashion and beauty magazines retouch their photos? Here’s a set of time-lapse videos that show many hours of retouching compressed into a matter of minutes. Photographer Elizabeth Moss is t... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NYT > ArtsLil Buck, the jookin street dance phenomenon, will perform a solo at Versailles on May 10 and 11.
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- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from artforum.com03.06.15-05.17.15 Para Site, Hong Kong, review written by Payal Uttam
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Architects: Estudio Larrain Location: Moneda 1802, Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile Architects In Charge: Rodrigo Larraín Gálvez, Rodrigo Larraín Illanes Area: 19670.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Rodrigo Larraín Illanes,... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Flavorwire
Sometimes you just wake up with a thought in your head. Most of the time it’s nonsense, but occasionally it’s a Serious Question that needs to be answered. Like this one: Where is John Maus? Ever since the masterful We Must B...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Brooklyn-based start-up Modern Meadow is currently developing the world’s first lab-grown leather. By taking advantage of recent advances in cell engineering, the company is hoping to shape a future that is “cultured not slaughtered.” Th... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from designboomsoon to become a landmark, malmö live cultural center demonstrates contemporary scandinavian aesthetics, hoping to embody the spirit of the diverse city. The post schmidt hammer lassen composes series of twisted towers for malmö cultural...
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This week’s guide includes Isa Genzken, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and more. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ArtsJournal
Reporting to the CEO of USA, the Director of Development serves as the partner with the CEO and the Board of Trustees in positioning the mission and work of USA through all communications and development functions. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe generic symbol for a woman, seen on countless bathroom signs all over the world, just got a whole new meaning. While her male counterpart appears to be unclothed or wearing a tight unitard, the figure symbolizing the women's restroom...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThis post is adapted from remarks delivered at the opening ceremony of the new Whitney Museum of American Art on Gansevoort Street, Manhattan. Mrs. Obama, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Whitney and welcome in name of the...
- Topo Designs + Salomon Collection: An outdoor collaboration drawing on different design philosophiesThursday, April 30, 2015 from Cool Hunting
For most outdoor brands, the chief objective of their products is to heighten the outdoor experience—whether that means keeping you dry in a sudden downpour or making a piece of gear that's so faithful it becomes an adventure companion. ... - Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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“Against all odds, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera is coming back with a series of small, free concerts beginning on May 5. The schedule includes 10 to 20 “arts invasion” concerts held in bars, coffee houses, schools, stre... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Art in America - Most RecentVideo and performance pioneer Joan Jonas, this year's U.S. representative at the Venice Biennale, is joined by her four-time collaborator, jazz phenom Jason Moran, to discuss the growth of their free-associative, call-and-respons process.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNearly 150 writers have now signed an open letter that condemns the attacks on the French satirical magazine, but questions whether it deserves a free speech prize for its willingness to offend.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NYT > BooksMs. Atkinson’s latest novel uses circular chronologies to tell a multigenerational family story.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe West End is about to get mystified. Impossible , a magic show featuring illusionists from around the world, will play London’s Noël Coward Theatre this summer. Performances will run from July 24 through August 29. Among th...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Creative BoomHair seems to be on the mind of illustrator Winnie Truong . Her artwork is as bizarre as it is fascinating, donning her subjects with some interesting locks. The intriguing hairstyles act like a headpiece and are at the centre of each of...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzCasting is now set for the Atlantic Theater Company production of David Mamet’s Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien . Emmy nominee Jason Ritter will star alongside Mary McCann, Arliss Howard and more. Performances will be...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
In Budapest on other business, I stopped by Franz Liszt’s old place to examine his keyboard collection. No artist on any instrument did more to challenge manufacturers to make improvements to what he played. Over Liszt’s life... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comMary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). That's all I say and instantly my college students' eyes roll back in their heads. It's the first day of class -- Women and Literature -- and already they're bored. They text their friends, keeping their ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Lost At E Minor: For creative people
James Hancock is one of those illustrators who makes drawings so unique and quirky, you just can’t turn away from them. He ‘panics that he may not be able to draw everything in the world… at least once’, which is ... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Creative BoomPhotographer Emily Blincoe likes collecting things and taking photographs of the neatly arranged items. She’s even worked on projects that feature other people’s collections. Blincoe’s sweets arrangements wonderfully colour coordinate ev...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzClick to see Brian d’Arcy James, Christian Borle and the cast of the Tony-nominated musical Something Rotten! recording their official cast album. Pick up the new cast recording digitally June 2 and in stores July ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWarning: unpopular beliefs ahead. Unlike most teenagers, I'm not too psyched about the release of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Upon its literary release, the book sold over one hundred million copies , and gained a fandom seemingly ov...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzJoan Allen, Peter Friedman and Boyd Gaines, stars of the original Broadway cast of The Heidi Chronicles in 1989, see the new revival and meet the cast of the revival at the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2015. Click for photos!
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Sphinx Organization, a US non-profit organization […] The post Sphinx Organization Announces $350,000 Black & Latino Grant Recipients appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Cl...
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Russian violinist Dmitry Rotkin performing his original composition, […] The post VC BUZZ | ‘Mad Fingers Pizzicato’ via GoPro Cam [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings &... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comfor Annie Dillard We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill I picked up my slimy, sticky, dried up body and carried it to the next reed of grass, into the next space of dirt. No die. No die. No die . I kept...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Royal Northern College of Music, […] The post UK’s Royal Northern College Announces New ‘International Chair of Violin’ appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Cla...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe candidates have today been announced […] The post Competitors Announced for Tibor Varga Sion Valais International Comp appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News S...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
David Zinman has pulled out of three June concerts with the Tohalle and – more seriously – from an international conducting course he was supposed to be heading. They’ve called in a Latvian, Andris Poga, to cover the co... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe sun is shining and as if to celebrate, the Dames are coming out to play on London stages this month. Fold in a musical theater favorite turning her attentions to Alan Ayckbourn and a former Lady Macbeth shifting gears in the dir...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Karin Slaughter's 'Pretty Girls' will be released on Sept. 29.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical music is coming to a bar near you Winston-Salem Journal For many years, you'd be hard pressed to find classical music outside formal settings such as theaters and concert halls. But a national campaign called Classical Revo...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzJames Barbour is bringing “The Music of the Night” to Broadway in The Phantom of the Opera , and we’ve got a first look at the new masked man in action. The headliner is currently appearing in the hit Andrew Lloyd Webbe...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Hate List is an extremely powerful and compelling story, one which I would recommend to all ages' Continue reading...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
American bluegrass fiddler and composer Benjamin […] The post Legendary Bluegrass Fiddler ‘Tex’ Logan Has Passed Away – Aged 85 appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Class... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSpring has sprung, which means it's time to sow the seeds that with care and watering will grow into your very own field of dreams. The time is now. Don't wait, just do. How do you focus your watering can on the seeds that will sprout a ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThomas Ades Piano Quintet , The Four Quarters , Arcadiana ; The Calder Quartet, Thomas Ades; Signum Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Apr 21 2015 Star rating: 5.0 Pure magic in a programme of Ades music for piano and quartet This new...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has announced its post-Nelsons audition season when it will be running the eye over a gamut of possible music directors. Two Israelis – Lahav Shani and Ilan Volkov – get repeat dates.... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
24 year old Spanish cellist, Pablo Ferrandez […] The post Spanish Cellist Pablo Ferrandez Awarded Rheingau Festival Career Grant appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music ... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Among volumes of responses to our groundbreaking survey of woman concertmasters comes one from a well-known music director who wonders whether there is an appreciable difference when his orchestra is led by a woman, or a man. This partic... - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'This book made me cry, it made my heart ache, it made me smile and laugh. And that's how I know it was a good book' Continue reading...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comYou’d think Judith Miller -- the disgraced New York Times reporter who helped rally the country into a $2 trillion, 10-year war -- would do us a favor and slink into obscurity. Alas, Miller is hawking a new book, and using the opportunit...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
This morning, they were six. Tonight, jury president Sakari Oramo announced three candidates for tomorrow’s Final Round: Tung-Chieh Chuang (Taiwan) David Niemann (Germany, pictured) Jesko Sirvend (Germany) - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from DesignFaves
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comOne year ago, Disney put "Peter Pan" back in the vault. It'll be a few years before it's released again to a new generation , but in the meantime, it's hard not to look back on it with fond memories ... or is it? The truth is that J. M. ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comPresident Barack Obama was interrupted by a sixth-grader who thought his answer about writer’s block was a bit long-winded. On Thursday, Osman Yaya, a student from Bennett Middle School in Salisbury, Maryland, interviewed the president a...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThis is a journey we're thrilled will be taking a little longer! The Tony nominated revival of On the Twentieth Century will now run through July 19; the show had previously been set to shutter on July 5. Kristin Chenoweth received a...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzCould the Man of La Mancha live the impossible dream once more on the Great White Way? It’s possible, and just in time for the 50th anniversary. According to The Washington Post , rights holder Martha Nelly Wasserman announced Broa...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A Minnesota-based study in Musicae Scientiae says live music calms patients down and takes their mind off their woes and how late their appointment is running. If your practice can’t afford a decent piano and performer, book a clas... - Friday, May 1, 2015 from DesignFaves
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicBenedict Andrews' production of La Boheme at Dutch National Opera. Photo Monica Rittershaus English National Opera has announced a 2015/2016 season which is remarkably confident and shows that artistic director John Berry is intending to...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureWilliam Faulkner — one of the great American novelists — thought of himself as a failed poet. Which made our critic Juan Vidal wonder: What is it about poetry that makes us hold it above other arts?
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe off-Broadway production of Stomp has been approved by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Oing to leave the Orpheum Theatre—where it has resided for over 20 years—and transfer to an uptown venue. According to the New ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The New YorkerEach week, the editors of Goings On share online happenings that caught their eye.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhat is Bettyville ? It's a place where "people pray for angels, where the Second Coming would be much preferred to tomorrow's sunrise." Once a thriving depiction of Americana, it is now "the world of the Dollar Store, the Big Cup, the c...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalDebussy, Boulez, Robin, and Pintscher: Sophie Cherrier (flute), Nicolas Crosse (double bass), Michael Barenboim (violin), Arshia Cont and Franck Rossi (IRCAM electronics), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher (conductor). Bar...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe journey that a made-up word takes from invention to induction into a dictionary -- be it Oxford Online or Merriam Webster's even more selective print edition -- is arduous. For the latter, decades worth of frequent use is needed, exc...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIf you like the Dr. Seuss classic "Green Eggs and Ham," you're in luck. You'll soon be able to watch it in a house and with a mouse, here and there and anywhere! Hot on the heels of the announcement of Netflix’s “Full House” revival , th...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe author of a guide to modern life for teenage girls talks to site member ItWasLovelyReadingYou about being angry, loving yourself, staying true to your passions – and her favourite inspirational quote What made you focus your book Tru...
