-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from artnet News
The biennial could easily be called Black Friday in the Tropics. -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Flavorwire
Perhaps it’s best to begin this roundup of cultural tidbits from around the web with the most universal bit of news imaginable: the … Read More -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsTheater 4the People’s new play, about a crumbling church and the people trying to hold it together, takes place in a church on the Upper West Side.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from PetaPixel » Inspiration
In this article, New York-based photographer Todd Vorenkamp shares 44 helpful tips you can use to improve the quality of your photography. 1. Shoot every day Like any skill, the more you do it, the better you can get. The best camera you... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsBeatMr. Krasznahorkai, the author of "Satantango," is the sixth winner of the award.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“At a meeting with the board of trustees on May 19, director Adam Weinberg announced that Scott Rothkopf, 38, is getting a promotion to chief curator. Currently the Nancy and Steve Crown family curator and associate director of pro... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NewsTania Bruguera, who has had her passport confiscated after planning a free-speech performance in Revolution Square, is due to host a 100-hour reading of the book The Origins of Totalitarianism ahead of the city's biennial
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from designboomin a proposed scenario where earth colonizes mars, which flag would be used to represent our diverse planet? The post oskar pernefeldt envisions the international flag of planet earth appeared first on designboom | architecture & des...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from artforum.com
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsWith a surfeit of speakers and snippets, the evening had the feel of channel surfing.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Behance Network Featured Projects
Maurice travels to Bangkok -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.com"I love that some people are upset about [there being two Bachelorettes]," declared Chris Harrison on HuffPost Live Monday afternoon."[If you're upset], it's probably an issue you have with yourself or with other women." As two of the wo...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comJoy Gim and Ron Thiele in Leonide Massine's Scheherezade . Photo: John Markowski (1990) This week marks a major milestone in the history of two storied American ballet companies on opposite coasts: American Ballet Theatre turns 75, and O...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtHungarian writer announced as sixth winner of the Man Booker International Prize
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Cool Hunting
For the past six months, we've been following the adventures of Wesley Verhoeve, the writer and photographer behind One of Many—a site that chronicles creative communities in American cities. Each month Verhoeve releases a portrait serie... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Archinect
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAzealia Banks is never one to hide her feelings, and it's safe to say she's really not feeling her BET Award nomination for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist . Iggy Azalea, Nicki Minaj, Trina, Tink and Dej Loaf are up for the honor along with B...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comWhen photographer Tyler Shields captured the provocative photo of a naked black man hanging a white Klansman from a tree branch, he considered his work a significant achievement. However, when he chose to widely share the image, his frie...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ARTnewsStefan Simchowitz, the art collector otherwise known by such epithets as “the art world’s patron satan,” “Sith Lord,” and “one of twelve producers on Requiem for a Dream,” has launched his own website that is fashionably vague but overfl...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comMay is the season of Commencements and as New England Conservatory and other schools of music prepare to graduate a new class of wonderfully gifted, creative, and idealistic young musicians, one can't help but contemplate the world in wh...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Hyperallergic
Not all surveys of public opinion about visual art are equal. -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Cool Hunting
Singer, model, actress, style icon and eternal life of the party, Grace Jones turns 67 today. To celebrate, The Fader looks back on her captivating existence through a 14-part visual journey, entitled "14 Reasons Grace Jones Is Cooler Th... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThere's nothing like the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest to make you want to pack your bags and explore the hidden corners of the world. From a heartwarming image of a child in Mongolia to a stunning picture of the majest...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comLet's set the scene. It's Friday night. 11pm. It's raining outside and we're in Paris. We're in a dark corner of a dingy jazz bar. Someone's wearing stripes. We close in on one girl, eyes fixed on the main stage, foot tapping and head sw...
- Tired Of Having Your Favorite TV Show, Movie Or Book Ruined By Spoilers? Now There’s An App For ThatTuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Spoiler Shield comes as a Chrome extension and an app for iOS and Android. It creates a special version of your Facebook and Twitter feeds with all of the annoying spoilers removed.” -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArchDaily
Thomas V. Vonier, FAIA, has been elected as the 2016 First Vice President and 2017 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) . Currently serving as 2014–2015 AIA Vice President, Vonier is the... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Hyperallergic
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a 25th anniversary of a drag doc, shoe designer Chris Francis sets up shop in the Craft & Folk Art Museum, the Hammer hosts a talk on Black Conceptualism, and more. -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Speaking at the Victoria and Albert museum here on Tuesday, Mark Carney, the governor of the bank, said that artists, sculptors, ceramicists, craftsmen, designers, architects and filmmakers are eligible as long as they are not ali... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Dezeen
Opinion: designers have a responsibility to help with the growing refugee crisis in Europe and beyond, says Richard van der Laken, founder of What Design Can Do. (more…) -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“In its abrupt closure of a small programme, City University has chosen to make the act of writing a political battle. For five years, we occupied a small and unique place: a learning environment in which there were no hard and fas... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsIn a new exhibition in London, the likes of Anish Kapoor and Dave Eggers offer up a closer look at their beloved writing instruments — some gnawed on, others utterly pristine, all strangely beautiful.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Colossal
British ceramicist Tamsin van Essen is fascinated by what she describes as the “the fragile boundary between attraction and repulsion,” a place where tension is created by the visible and the obscured. For her Erosion series ... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from DesignFaves
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Dezeen
After years of delay, a new public library by Steven Holl has broken ground in Queens, on a prominent site overlooking the East River and the Manhattan skyline (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NewsMatthew Teitelbaum—who starts his new job as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in August—on what it takes to run an encyclopaedic museum today
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsA fund-raising event featuring short plays about censorship will proceed without Mr. LaBute’s work.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMr. Krasznahorkai, the author of “Satantango,” is the sixth winner of the award.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArchDaily
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has designed a home with the help of two million Swedes. Made possible by big data, the Swedish office analyzed 200 million clicks and 86,000 properties on Hemnet properties to design “Sweden’s statis... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fubiz™
Les architectes Michaelis Boyd et Nick Plewman ont imaginé un véritable cocon luxueux au coeur de Botswana. Les amateurs de Safari peuvent séjourner au Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge : une habitation uniquement alimentée par l’énerg... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe performance art world and the hip-hop community merged in 2013 when Marina Abramovic collaborated with Jay Z. Now, however, the Godmother of Performance Art isn't very happy with the rapper. For Jay Z's "Picasso Baby" music video, Ho...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Flavorwire
The Hungarian master -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Flavorwire
Between Gawker publishing rumors that beloved comedian Louis C.K. has a tendency to expose himself (and I don’t mean emotionally) to women in the comedy world and … Read More
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe streaming site’s new Canadian science-fiction series focuses on a small town where a mysterious disease is killing residents over 21.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMr. Rothkopf, 38, has organized exhibitions of the work of Jeff Koons, Wade Guyton and Mary Heilmann.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from ArtsJournal
A number of women in their 50s, some reportedly with medical conditions, were denied access to the showing of Todd Haynes’ entry Carol on Sunday night, according to Screen magazine. -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMs. Cara’s debut single, on Def Jam, joins a proud lineage of outcast pop by young women.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from designboomthe 'SFF' is a modular, multi-level floating farm that uses solar power to self-sufficiently power hydroponic and aquaculture facilities in an attempt to address a nearly 70% increase in worldwide food demand by 2050. The post smart floa...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksOn June 19, 1815, the Duke of Wellington sent one of the world's most famous military dispatches, describing his defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Listen to it in full Continue reading...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsTony winner Hugh Jackman, on Broadway earlier this season in The River, was a recent guest on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon."
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzWhat fresh hell is this? Take a look for yourself! The full trailer for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series Scream Queens is equal parts terrifying and hysterical. More importantly, it includes several shots of Lea Michele in full headge...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsThe Off-Broadway Alliance — the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theatres, general managers, press agents and marketing professionals — has announced the winners of the 5th Annual Off-Broadway Allia...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsAn open call will be held in New York City June 6 for the leading role of Dorothy in NBC's upcoming live presentation of The Wiz.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today. Emma Stone's Elephant Man Impression This is Oscar nominee Emma Stone as you've never seen her before. The 2015 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner has been b...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsThe U.K.'s University of Sheffield presents a concert event featuring never-before-heard songs from Lerner and Loewe's legendary musical My Fair Lady May 19 at the University's Firth Hall.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsAaron Lazar, Ana Gasteyer and Tony winner Dan Fogler will join the previously announced Jonathan Groff in the New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series revival of William Finn's A New Brain June 24-27.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsThe two-actor musical Daddy Long Legs — by Tony-Award-nominated composer-lyricist Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and Tony-winning librettist-director John Caird (Les Misérables) — ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureAnna North's new novel is narrated by friends and family after the death of troubled filmmaker Sophie. Critic Michael Schaub calls it "a bold and graceful novel, executed with incredible artistry."
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The New YorkerI’ve been drawing baseball cards ever since I was a kid. I never draw the stars. To immortalize them as art seems redundant. Those cards are already precious works of art. They get preserved in Lucite cases. Some of the cards that I own ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWhat if you looked at your daughter and saw yourself? Not only the good parts but all of the negative self-talk you heaped upon yourself since you emerged from childhood. What would you do to stop your daughter from carrying the weight o...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > BooksNell Zink’s second novel portrays a lesbian who flees her gay husband and her son, lying low by posing as black with her daughter in 1960s Virginia.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Powerful piece today by Peter Dobrin, arguing that Kimmel Center’s financial targets have made it impossible to invite the Vienna Philharmonic and Lang Lang to play in the city. Read Peter here. -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsFor this year's Tony Awards, Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth (two Tony winners themselves!) have been paired up for hosting duties. Here are six reasons — with video proof — why they are the perfect match.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Chicago’s Ars Viva gave its closing concert on Sunday. Co-founder and music director Alan Heatherington is heading off to pursue a different vocation, in the Anglican ministry. He provided opportunities for many fine musicians and... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'The book combines her (completely unprofessional but still invaluable) advice, and it's just absolutely beautiful' Continue reading...
- Photo Call: Stars of Neverland, Gigi, On The Town, Visit and Something Rotten! Headline MTC Spring GTuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsTony winner Jane Krakowski hosted the Manhattan Theatre Club's annual Spring Gala on May 18. The benefit event featured performances from Broadway musicals Beautiful, Finding Neverland, Gigi, It Shoulda Been You, On The Town...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzSutton Foster stopped by The View on May 19 to talk about starring on her hit TV show Younger and more. The two-time Tony winner got her big break in Thoroughly Modern Millie when she was plucked from the ensemble to lead the tuner. One ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSo there I was, a budding author with two manuscripts clogging up my hard-drive, an enthusiastic literary agent, and a phone that was ominously quiet. Depressingly so. Despite phlegmatic assurances from my agent, I couldn't get a book pu...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > BooksAn anonymous $200,000 gift has helped create the Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship, named for a longtime literary agent.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThis is the year of the fierce YA heroine. In fact, it's one of the many things to love about The Wrath and the Dawn , a newly released young adult book. The story is an imaginative retelling of the classic tale One Thousand and One Nigh...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Leonard Slatkin has given a pumped-up interview to our pals at resmusica, describng how his US orchestra has emerged from ‘horrendous economic peril’ to create a new set of outreach and multimedia strategies. It’s not just ab... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland on going from the rock world to classical music The Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland might be best known as the drummer for the Police, but his career with the trio was effectively finished by 1986. Bef...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzSkylight Tony nominee Carey Mulligan on the movie that always makes her cry, what she needs severn years of training for and her red carpet secret weapon.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzClose your eyes, count to ten, breathe in twice and check out Christina Aguilera’s take on a Finding Neverland ballad. The concept album for the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award -winning musical, which drops on Jun...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The New YorkerWhen the group Rachel’s formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in the early nineteen-nineties, they bore very little resemblance to their friends in the city’s thriving independent rock scene. Even at a time when musicians who had been weaned o...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The New YorkerThe following text is adapted from the author’s book “ Painted Nudes ,” a collection of Saul Leiter’s work which is out this month from Sylph Editions. Saul Leiter, an unassuming but ferociously single-minded artist, delighted in p...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsA Malaysian Farm is Playing Classical Music to its Chickens Smithsonian They write that a Malaysia and Singapore-based company called Kee Song Group uses classical music as part of its effort to “mass produce drug and hormone-free poultr...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsDue to strong box-office demand, Theatre for a New Audience has announced it will extend its engagement of Fiasco Theater's The Two Gentlemen of Verona for a second time.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPublisher also has high hopes for its 2015 fiction list, which includes new novels from Ian Boyd and Margaret Atwood Harry Potter has conjured up another year of wizard sales for Bloomsbury, helping the publisher to ride out a decline in...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNoelle Stevenson's webcomic Nimona , about a shapeshifter who aspires to be an evil sidekick, is now out in book form. Reviewer Tasha Robinson praises the story's ebullience, complexity and intensity.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMessiaen, Prokofiev, Fauré, and Stravinsky: Jack Liebeck (violin), Katya Apekisheva (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 17.5.2015 (MB) Messiaen – Thème et Variations Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80 Fauré – Violin Sonata no.1...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Brahms: Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor), Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, 15.05.2015 (RP) Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major, ‘The Clock’ Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 High spirits reigned ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzBeing a 2015 Tony nominee is a huge honor, whether you’re a Broadway mainstay like Fun Home ’s Michael Cerveris, a big screen legend like The Audience headliner Helen Mirren or a small screen favorite like Elisabeth Moss of T...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe Bradford boasted sweet flesh so coveted, 19th-century growers turned to guns and poison to thwart thieves. The melon all but vanished by the 1920s. Now a descendant of its creator is reviving it.
- American Idiot As You’ve Never Seen it Before! First Pics from Immersive Staging in an L.A. WarehousTuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsLindsay Pearce, who was seen on Fox's "Glee," stars as Whatsername in the immersive production of American Idiot, which comes to life in a warehouse venue in downtown Los Angeles' Arts District. Perfor...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsOn May 17, dancers from Broadway shows including The King and I, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, Something Rotten, Wicked, An American in Paris, The Lion King and Chita Rivera: A Dancer's Life celebrated Chita Rivera's Tony Award nominat...
-
Saturday, August 12, 2000 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAn extract from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential Continue reading...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsThe biggest news of the last week was behind-the-scenes, where Rufus Norris — new artistic director of the National Theatre — announced a major shake-up to the way the organisation is run, including the ap...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsA revival of two haunting short plays by David Mamet, Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, is currently in rehearsal at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company. The production reunites director Scott Zigler with actors ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseOn May 21 and 28, under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, the Talea Ensemble will survey the admirably unpredictable Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter.... The Library of Congress, in collaboration with Q2, has...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe sequel to the longest-running show on the Great White Way will finally land in the U.S.! Broadway.com has confirmed that Love Never Dies , the follow-up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera , will tour North Americ...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsRuthless! The Musical, originally staged in New York 22 years ago, will return Off-Broadway beginning June 25 at St. Luke’s Theatre.
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalDresdner Musikfestspiele 2015 Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann:: Isabelle Faust (violin), Dresdner Festspielorchester / Ivor Bolton, (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden,, 17.5. 2015 (MC) Mendelssohn: Concert overture ‘The H...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Moscow has announced a contemporary music festival for violas next month. Taking its title from Morton Feldman’s work, The Viola in My Life, and organised by violist Sergey Poltava, the festival will match Russian works with pieces... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NYT > BooksA biography of Joseph Mitchell attempts to explain one of literary history’s “greatest disappearing acts.”
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzHedwig and the Angry Inch star and Glee favorite Darren Criss made dreams come true for 375 middle schoolers on May 18, when he hosted a celebration for the new Broadway Junior mentorship program at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. Aft...
-
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The following notice has gone up on the former benevolent fund’s site: We want to announce that David Sulkin has decided to leave his position as the Executive Director of Help Musicians UK with effect from 6 June 2015 to pursue ot... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksRoyal Society of Literature’s £10,000 award won by Justin Marozzi’s book, which spans centuries of city’s turbulent history A history of Baghdad that ranges from its 15th-century sacking by Tamerlane to the invasion by American troops in...
