Sunday, August 28, 2016 from artnet News
Here's what you missed. The post The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week in One Minute appeared first on artnet News .-
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Dezeen
This angular house in Cork, Ireland, was designed by A2 Architects with a crank in its middle to give residents more sun exposure, and to create a route through to a garden courtyard. (more…) -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Victoria and Albert Museum announced the acquisition of the Tommy Cooper Collection – the largest collection of its kind tracing the life and legacy of the much-loved British comedian Tommy Cooper (1921 - 1984). The acquisition...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
Petra, also known as the Rose City, is an ancient city in Jordan that experts claim was built as early as 312 BC. Its defining feature is the massive structures carved out of the rock walls that make up the city. The architecture of this... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgLatitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad and SP-Arte will host the first Art Weekend São Paulo from 2–4 September 2016. Art Weekend will take place the weekend before the opening of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, and...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArtsJournal
“I am so excited when I begin a book. All of that possibility! All of that vision! Then the book hits me in the head with the work ahead of me.” -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Neatorama
Pirates have been cleaned up and made to look like heroes, but in their day they were the scummiest, scurviest, meanest, greediest and most ruthless dogs sailing the seven seas. Which is why it would have sucked to be a pirate-... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Fubiz™
Ce shooting est une puissante réponse visuelle à la question « Qu’est ce que cela veut dire être de couleur? ». La photographe Lisa Minogue fait poser ses mannequins dans des poses qui accentuent leur gravité.... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Neatorama
Elite Fighter (variant) by djkopet You can often tell an Imperial soldier's rank and position by the way their armor looks, and helmet shape says a lot about where they stand among the sea of soldiers fighting for the Empire. The... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will celebrate the centennial anniversary of the founding of its predecessor institution, the Museum of the American Indian, with a symposium, “Vistas and Dreams,”...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Neatorama
Did you ever see someone in an old movie blow into a balloon to see how drunk they were? That was part of a device called the Harger Drunkometer. After Prohibition was repealed inthe 1930s, police had to deal with an upswing of drunk... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Dezeen
This museum of vintage BMWs by architecture practice Crossboundaries is draped in layers of red fabric that reference traditional Chinese archways (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Neatorama
You know you're having a bad day when a crazed, machete-wielding man tries to rob your store, but take it from the shopkeeper in this wild security video- it's best to keep calm and pull out a bigger sword. ( YouTube Link ) The... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from artnet NewsHere's what you missed. The post The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week in One Minute appeared first on artnet News .
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Cool Hunting
1. Prince's Paisley Park to Open to the Public Most people will remember exactly where they were when they heard that His Royal Badness, Prince, passed away. The tragic news then led to many wondering what would happen to his immense... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comKent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Maison Symphonique, Montreal August 12, 2016. Photo: ZEALnyc Mark McLaren, Editor in Chief, ZEALnyc August 27, 2016 Last week, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and its music...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Fubiz™
Pour relancer son modèle iconique des Gazelle, adidas n’en finit plus d’inspirer et de s’inspirer de l’esthétique 90’s sauce psychédélique. Pour sa campagne d’affichage, l’entreprise a fait appel... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgFollowing the extraordinarily positive response to Ciara Phillips' Dazzle Ship Scotland at Prince of Wales Dock, Leith, co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the First World War centenary, Edinburgh Art Festival...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
Film has been around for well over a century. It’s by far the most used medium in terms of the length of time it has been in use and the sheer volume of relevant and well-known images that have been shot with it. And I’m not... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Fubiz™
Erzsebet Nagy Saar est un talent curieux qui se livre à des expérimentations de matière et de composition. Ces quatre collages de la série Nautilus en sont un bon exemple. Les petites créatures lovées dans la nacre sont comme des petites... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgCosmoscow , the only international contemporary art fair in Russia and the CIS will take place from 9-11 September 2016 at Gostiny Dvor, Moscow. This year’s fair is supported by strategic partner Credit Suisse and jewelry partner...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comModern Art Oxford The gallery celebrates 50 trailblazing years with new work and old favourites by Richard Long, Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Dorothy Cross and more The opening gallery is empty of objects but filled with visions. Richard...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from NeatoramaEmbed from Getty Images On August 16, New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin collided with American Abbey D’Agostino as they were running the first heat of the 5,000-meter race at the Rio Olympics. D’Agostino jumped up...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Dezeen
World Heritage Corb: many of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier 's most important works feature on our latest Pinterest board , which we've created to mark the end of our series exploring the 17 of his buildings recently added to... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgCoinciding with the 2016 presidential election, the New-York Historical Society explores campaign memorabilia and the ephemera of American politics through the shifting styles, rhetoric, and aesthetics of four presidential elections and...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from NYT > Arts“I Miss Downton Abbey!” comes to the rescue of lonely viewers. And the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards move to Madison Square Garden.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Neatorama
Humans assume dogs don't appreciate fine art because they often tear any artwork they find lying around to bits, but dogs explore the world with their mouths and they mean no disrespect. In fact, if a dog's eyes worked like ours they... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgPi Artworks London announces Will Nature Make A Man Of Me Yet? , the fourth exhibition to come out of the gallery’s ongoing collaboration with the Curating department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Each year Goldsmiths,...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from The Creators Project RSS Feed
Artist Daan Roosegaarde creates a permanent 3D cloud-laden sky for Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe Rio 2016 Olympic Games is over, and the Paralympics is yet to begin. So why not use this downtime to watch a stunning animated clip which imagines athletes as balloons. The inflatable competitors wrestle, dive and run just like...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Cool Hunting
by Karen Day In Japan, tea is a serious subject. As we learned by participating in Tom Sachs’ artistic take on the traditional tea ceremony at New York's Noguchi Museum this year, the concept of chanoyu dates back to the 9th century,... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgPositioning itself in line with other high profile international events, Brussels Art Days has been renamed more appropriately as the Brussels Gallery Weekend . For the 9th year in a row, this event launches the gallery season with a...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from The Creators Project RSS Feed
Brooklyn-based Jesse Chun deconstructs immigration papers and passports to get at the nature of belonging. -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from The Creators Project RSS Feed
A fun house has nothing on the brazen oddities of Mika Rottenberg's Palais de Tokyo show. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from PetaPixel » InspirationJeanne Adams is the daughter-in-law of the late and great landscape photographer Ansel Adams, and she served as the head of the Ansel Adams Gallery for 25 years. In the 10-minute interview above, Jeanne talks to Marc Silber of Advancing...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Dezeen
A cookbook by El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià played a key role in determining architecture firm Woods Bagot 's design for its new Melbourne studio (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from The Creators Project RSS Feed
A 30-year anniversary show in Socrates Sculpture Park celebrates the earth, community, and the longevity of bees. -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from The Creators Project RSS Feed
The exhibition 'Reality Check' celebrates 25 years of Ukrainian independence and the effects of freedom. -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Fubiz™
Jennet Norman est une artiste d’Achgabat, la capitale du Turkmenistan. Elle vit aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis et compose sur différents thèmes. Cette série de portraits rend hommage aux costumes traditionnels de son pays... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe work of eight new media artists from around the world is on view at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art , Auburn University in the exhibition, "Camera Lucida," Aug. 27 through Jan. 7 in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C....
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Galerie Urs Meile is presenting a selection of paintings and works on paper by the German artist Christian Schoeler (1978 – 2015) under the title Rembrandt as a Boy. In his paintings Schoeler devoted himself to re-interpreting...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Fubiz™
Subtilement nommé Duo, ce produit dessiné par Blond design est conçu pour répondre à notre utilisation de la technologie mobile. Cet ensemble est minutieusement étudié pour s’insérer harmonieusement dans tout type... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comThe heads of the Serpentine, Secret Cinema, Glasgow International, the Young Vic and others on how they find fresh talent and new ideas Swiss-born curator, writer and art historian and artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries. Since...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Kestner Gesellschaft is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a benefit auction. Many of the artists who donated a work for the anniversary have previously exhibited at the Kestner Gesellschaft. These renowned artists signify the...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Cool Hunting
By Karen Day Is skateboarding big in Bali, an island with rocky roads known most for its tremendous surf scene? If Maree Suteja has her way, it will be soon enough. One year ago the vibrant Australian expat built Pretty Poison, a... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comLate architect’s creation for Serpentine Gallery summer party will be the highlight of sculpture exhibition at stately home An enormous, curvy, mushroom-like pavilion designed by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid has been installed in...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) presents a group exhibition that investigates a wide range of themes surrounding the changing role of women in China, Fire Within: A New Generation of Chinese...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Dezeen
Rusted iron panels screen the most private rooms of this house in the Argentinian city of Córdoba, but are perforated with an intricate pattern that evokes the dappled shadows cast by trees (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Neatorama
How do you handle haters? In the 3D world, you can avoid such people -if you ever even learn they are don't like you. It’s not so easy on the internet, where so many people have access to so many other people and most of them... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Irish writer’s third novel explores new territory – a foray into the Traveller community – but his heroine lacks depth Donal Ryan’s third novel is a departure for him. With his previous two books he cruised along easy street with...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Seen and Heard International2016 Opera Fest Dala-Floda: Soloists, Jacob Moscovicz (piano). Floda Church, Dala-Floda, Gagnef, Dalecarlia. 12.8. and 14.8.2016. (GF) Young Stars (12.8) Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria -Kevin Frans Johansson Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Julia...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Kirkus ReviewsFor all but a few, the night is a foreign country. Dreams are when the world turns upside down and inside out, and Bansch does a superb job illustrating its kooky-spooky state. Here, a dozen creatures settle in for the night: the...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAlice Hoffman gives us a fine fictionalised account of the struggles of Rachel, the impressionist’s mother, on the Caribbean island of St Thomas in the 1800s In 1830 on the island of St Thomas – now part of the US Virgin Islands, but...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Nina McLemore designs clothes for powerful women: Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Janet Yellen, Elena Kagan and others. She talks about how fashion can help women stand out in political office. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksEarly stories from Terry Pratchett, plus space exploration, sleepy creatures and modern fairytales The children’s book harvest this August includes a last farewell to Terry Pratchett ; The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner (Doubleday)...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Spend your weekend reading 'Trump Revealed.'
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Slipped DiscThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have recorded a new work by Tamil Rogeon that sets the 2010 AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final to music. Watch a clip, if you like bare-armed men (and good music).
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArchDaily
On a mountain in the rugged north of Ibiza , lies this beautiful casita. What formerly served as stables and storage, is now transformed into a contemporary dream house. The owners of Ibiza Interiors developed this 200 year old finca... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Classical music - Google NewsSTLtoday.com Fall arts preview: Classical music offers high quality and variety STLtoday.com There will be some fine pianists (Orli Shaham, Jeremy Denk) this fall along with the violinists and cellist Alban Gerhardt, and musical...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from ArchDaily
At the 5th floor of the new skyscraper ‘De Rotterdam ’, Fokkema & Partners designed a new office for an international trade company. The interior celebrates the scale and character of the building, but above all it identifies with... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArchDaily
The "Golden Garland" (K.G. Zochernrug) is a bridge in Tiel that strengthens the route from the shopping area to the city center. The bridge crosses the water diagonally and forms the best possible visual and functional connection between... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from World Music Central.orgSmithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions has released a new album Guillermo Velázquez y Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú. The title of the recording is Serrano de Corazón (Highlander at Heart). Huapango arribeño is a distinct regional...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Slipped Disc
We have received the following validation of our first report from the festival’s MD: On August 25, 2016 around 2:15pm, out of total surprise, Mihnea Ignat, the conductor of our resident orchestra, jumped on me on Corso Vannuci in... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Dutch novelist on finding fame in his 50s, dysfunctional characters and his dream dinner guests Herman Koch is a Dutch writer and actor. He is the author of seven short story collections and eight novels, including the international...
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Friday, August 26, 2016 from NYT > BooksThe writer talked about his work and illness on radio, and had his poetry published in The New Yorker and elsewhere.
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Seen and Heard InternationalEdinburgh International Festival 2016 (13) – Bach, Bruckner: Julian Rachin (violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Usher Hall, 26.8.2016. (SRT) Bach: Violin Concerto in E major Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 I’ve...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from NYT > BooksTo help highlight the availability of Wi-Fi service in underground stations, Penguin Random House is offering downloadable short stories and book excerpts.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
Look for new books by Louise Penny, Tom Wolfe, Dav Pilkey and Ransom Riggs.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Seen and Heard InternationalLooking Forward to the 11th Malcolm Arnold Festival (Northampton 15-16 October 2016) Even if this year’s Proms remain a disappointment in some quarters (mine, for example) deserving yet largely unheard British music is doing fairly...
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Friday, August 26, 2016 from Archinect
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArchDaily
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The 2016 European Architecture Students Assembly ( EASA ) has concluded in Nida , Lithuania . Centering around its title theme of " Not Yet Decided ," the two-week event included 35 workshops, with over half of the results still... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Seen and Heard InternationalLucerne Festival (3) – Nobre, Grieg, Villa-Lobos, Rachmaninov: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Gabriela Montero (piano), Marin Alsop (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL), Lucerne 26.8.2016. (JR) Nobre: “Kabbalah” for...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPersonal and political crises lead an American Jew to question his identity in an imperfect but engaging novel In a 1993 New Yorker review, John Updike eviscerated Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock , calling it “an orgy of argumentation…...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksEvelyn Waugh gossiped about her, Anthony Powell put her in his novels and Lord Weidenfeld, briefly, married her. She was a writer, a bohemian, a femme fatale – but, on her centenary, DJ Taylor asks who was the real Barbara Skelton?...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Slipped Disc
The Staatskapelle Weimar suffered a tragic loss yesterday with the sudden and unexpected death of first Kapellmeister, Martin Hoff. Martin was 52 and the cause of death is not yet known. A student in Dresden of Hartmut Haenchen and... -
Friday, August 26, 2016 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective01. In Pieces (Feat. Mindi Abair & Sheila E.) (3:28) 02. Feeling Good (Feat. Patrice Rushen & Rhonda Smith) (3:46) 03. Open The Curtains (Feat. Patrice Rushen) (4:51) 04. Forget Me Nots (Feat. Patrice Rushen & Bibi McGill)...
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Friday, August 26, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
The movie Southside with You is opening in theaters. The film follows Michelle and Barack Obama's very first date, and shows something we don't get too see too often in film: black romance. -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Sanders wrote the definitive book on the Manson Family ("The Family.") He's currently working on a book about Robert Kennedy. He's decided to sell the assembled work on which he's based his research. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Kij Johnson's new novella follows an unlikely adventurer (and a small black cat) through a world built of dreams. It's a wonder-quest that will hold you spellbound from start to finish. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise“Art’s a funny thing, doesn’t seem to have any connection with our lives, just gets itself made—and when it is good there’s no time in it at all. Kills time, that’s art. Brings up a lot of old ideas we...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from ArchDaily
At just 1,310 feet (400 meters) across at its widest point, Fire Island, a barrier island to the south of Long Island in New York, may not seem like an ideal place to host a community. Nonetheless, the island is home to a number of small... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Cuba Gooding Jr., Rami Malek and Constance Zimmer all have one thing in common: this year is the first time each has been nominated for an Emmy. Their nominations hint at deeper changes in television. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from All About Jazz News
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArchDaily
Form4 Architecture has won first place at the International Design Awards for its project, Sea Song , which additionally was honored by the Green Good Design Awards presented by The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
In Tom Wolfe's first book of nonfiction in 16 years, he argues that the development of speech, not evolution, has made humans what we are today — evolution, he says, applies only to animals. -
Friday, August 26, 2016 from Archinect
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 from ArchDaily
The RTC’s new Mobility Training Center is designed to increase mobility among Southern Nevadans, especially senior residents and persons with disabilities, by equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to use public... -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA Spanish publisher has won the right to reproduce the manuscript, but are they any closer to discovering what it actually is? This week a small Spanish publishing house secured the right to clone the Voynich manuscript. The original is...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksDry humour meets tragedy in a collection of loosely interwoven short stories drawn from Russian history Anthony Marra ’s fascinating debut, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena , was set in a ravaged Chechen hospital, and he expands both...
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Friday, August 26, 2016 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global PerspectiveNICOLE HENRY at Ginny’s Supper Club at The Red Rooster – Harlem, New York Saturday, Aug 27 - 7:30pm & 9:30pm For tickets: Click HERE Nicole Henry (vocals); David Cook (Piano); Robert Jost (Upright Bass); Darrian Douglas...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global PerspectiveDid you release a Jazz or World Music Album in 2016? “The JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2016” is a digital collection of mp3 tracks from albums released in 2016 by jazz musicians and labels freely available for download on JazzWorldQuest.com...
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Friday, August 26, 2016 from NYT > BooksMr. Hill’s first novel, a piece of social satire called “The Nix,” already has admirers in high places.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe president’s aircraft is routinely seen as a symbol of US strength. But, as his new book about modern myths is published, Peter Conrad examines the plane’s history and depictions in film, and asks what it really tells us about America...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from ArchDaily
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter and Dualchas Architects have unveiled their plans for the St Kilda Visitor Center, which will be located on a cliff-top site at Geodha Sgoilt in the Uig area of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Through... -
Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicRobert Hugill The Genesis of Frankenstein The Helios Collective with Lindsey Fraser, Ughetta Pratesi, Anuschka Socher, Isolde Roxby, Tom Asher, Noah Mosley at CLF Arts Cafe as part of Toi Toi 2015 My opera, The Genesis of Frankenstein ,...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Classical music - Google NewsPress Herald Critic's Notebook: A year of classical music in Portland Press Herald A year of reviewing concerts for the Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram has given me a thorough tour of Greater Portland's classical music...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016 from Slipped Disc
The Putin TV channel has been counting westerners who migrate to the Russian haven. Two conductors among them, an Italian… and a Greek. -
Saturday, August 27, 2016 from ArchDaily
Just as the competition to design the official Obama Presidential Library in Chicago was heating up, Arcbazar orchestrated a simultaneous, open-call for ideas competition asking “ What sort of Presidential Library would the people...
