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In the hall, this concert performance of Strauss's Alpine Symphony, conducted by Charles Dutoit, was by all accounts a triumph. Yet the sound files, in all but the most expensive format, are flat and dull, barely recognizable as the Fabulous Philadelphians. What happened in the translation?.....
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"For our ancestors, natural was something quite nasty. Natural often tasted bad. Fresh meat was rank and tough, fresh fruits inedibly sour, fresh vegetables bitter. Natural was unreliable. … Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilized, the poor, and the starving resorted to it.".....
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"Fried Beer is a beer-filled pretzel-like dough pocket that's shaped like ravioli. Take a bite and the beer pours out. … Simply use the dough to soak up the rest of the brewski.'Why drink your beer when you can eat it?' creator Mark Zable said.".....
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A take on Raymond Chander's dick Philip Marlowe preparing a leg of lamb "is funny not just because of the incongruity between the tough-guy manner and the task at hand ('I put the squeeze on a lemon and it soon juiced'); it's also funny, a bit more disturbingly, because it shows us that there's something inadvertently comical below the surface of Chandler's hard-boiled prose.".....
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"Cultural traditionalists in France are upset that the famed chateau will play host to an installation of [Takashi] Murakami's work … Known for his brightly colored pop creations that pull from the worlds of anime, manga and cartoons, Murakami is a decidedly odd fit for the Baroque castle where French royalty resided during the 17th and 18th centuries.".....
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"Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, will soon open a new museum in one of the poshest areas of his native Mexico to house his collection of artwork by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, considered the biggest outside France.".....
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"The casually lettered sign on the sidewalk in front of Dance Theater Workshop says 'Live Drawing Tonight 5-9 p.m'." This is not a raffle, or a class in sketching naked models. Visual and movement artist Tony Orrico, an alumnus of Trisha Brown's and Shen Wei's companies, is spending four-hour stretches drawing on DTW's gallery wall as an audience looks on......
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"In general terms, I learned that the brain is always busy. In particular, if a sensory input - whether it be vision or hearing or kinesthesia - is taken away, there will be some sort of compensation, and the cortical systems involved in those representations will become hyperactive.".....
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Alexis Madrigal of Longshot: "Everything we do is made possible by the new (free) technological tools out there. But we're the ones that have to figure out how to deploy - in what constellations, in what order - to actually run a magazine.".....
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"The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus … has been mortgaged. Fisk President Hazel R. O'Leary says that the only asset of real value left is the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art.".....
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"The point is to honor and educate. … We're honoring Judith Jamison, who has been a leader for decades. We are bringing in students from around the country to give them a day in the White House and share with them some of the great performers.".....
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"Even hardboiled Nagano skeptics, whether inside or outside the orchestra, are probably pleased with the stability that comes with this announcement. Four years after his appointment, Nagano still sells out concerts, in good economic times and bad.".....
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"His obsessive drive … produced a two-dimensional record of his shaggy life, rendered in varying styles by numerous illustrators. Now only his widow and the artists he worked with are left to narrate his final chapter, a tale of bruised feelings and allegations of opportunism, with nothing more at stake than the writer's modest legacy.".....
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Joy Zinoman: "[To] feel the responsibility of it being shared and also personally not having to measure out my life in coffee spoons - the thought of freedom is really delicious to me. On the other hand, my relationships with people there are also very deep, so that's extremely difficult to figure out how we separate.".....
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"'Newsreels' seems inadequate" as a name for these short films made from 1935-51; "they are longer, more detailed and much more opinionated than the standard-issue newsreels that preceded them. 'Documentaries' is closer, but the blaring orchestrations and outlandish voice-overs sound nothing like a modern documentary.".....
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In this piece, "Balanchine made a dance that would become the Rosetta Stone for a new kind of dancer, the American classical dancer. He brought a kind of democracy into the hierarchical land of ballet classicism, lifting it from its dusty 19th-century splendor, and created, simultaneously, an aristocracy for American dancers who had none.".....
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Cammie King and Clark Gable in a scene from the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind....
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Yeah, so I'd been poking around flickr for a while, looking to see how MOS's project for the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale turned out. Because well, because.
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And hmm. What is it about it? The green straps? Should the weather balloons have been upside-down, so gnarly knots and straps take a backseat, and the smoother, more reflective surface is vi...
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“It Must Be Him”: Clockwise from top left, Peter Scolari, Patrick Cummings, Jonathan C. Kaplan, Edward Staudenmayer and Ryan Duncan in this comedy by Kenny Solms at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater...
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The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in “White Wedding.”
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Prince Adu plays a street hustler who has fatherhood foisted upon him in “Prince of Broadway....
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Cassandra Kubinski, center, in a scene from “Clear Blue Tuesday,” directed by Elizabeth Lucas...
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Miguel Gomes’s “Our Beloved Month of August” blends elements of fiction and documentary...
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“Underground Pop”: James Gobel’s “Do We Speak or Are We Just Nodding Our Heads?” at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y...
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The comic Judah Friedlander is among a coterie of fans of the genre known as bad art...
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“Lee Friedlander: America by Car,” featuring a 2007 photograph from Alaska, above, opens Saturday at the Whitney Museum...
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The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.
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Deborah Kee Higgins and Barry Hogan, the organizers of All Tomorrow’s Parties...
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French People Are Afraid of Murakami’s Breasts — ANIMAL – This is no Jeff Koons at Versailles...
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Denial of intern Liza Eliano’s imminent departure has delayed my posting a call for her replacement. Stupid school. Who will write epic art merch surveys for AFC in her absence? Who will write AFC’s event listings with such subtle humor? And most importantly, who will write profiles scathing enough to prompt their subjects to create ugly [......
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P.S. 1 Welcomes Ann Liv Young – NYTimes.com – Pee in the Pan's Ann Liv Young gets an invite back to PS...
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The L Magazine has a great feature, Ten Young Artists You Should Know, complete with interviews. I worked with Shane Caffrey and Amy Yao on their interviews, though they’re all worth a look. A teaser: The L: If you could collaborate with any other New York City artist (living or dead), who would be, why, [......
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“I am that I am,” declares Brion Gysin in a video projection, his deep voice resonating throughout the second floor of the New Museum. The statement promises to reveal something about this lesser-known artist of the Beat generation, even if that something is unclear. As Gysin anxiously repeats permutations of the statement—“Am I that I [......
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Sorry I Havn’t Posted – Is this project inspired by a dislike of bloggers? Either way, it leaves the impression that Arcangel hasn't actively used the web in a while...
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For those who have about an hour to kill, the Dave Hickey lecture above is worth a gander both for his ideas on the development of art viewing, and his thoughts on the Internet. To begin, Hickey describes the American art discourse as informed by a conflict between ideas proffered by the 15th century church [......
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This is where Nightcrawler 'ports in and shouts, "Ausgezeichnet!"
Here is Joseph Beuys, pop singer, performing his greatest anti-US, anti-nuclear hit from 1982, "Sonne statt Reagan, [Sun not Reagan]." Reagan, remember, is a German homonym for rain [Regen], so it makes perfect sense.
As Ubu explains it, "Beuys tried his luck as a pop singer as part of his political commitment." Sure.
To throw...
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Mark Adams converted a boathouse into a three-bedroom rental with two kitchens...
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When studying is a nemesis, free tutoring to the rescue: Participants made puppets for a film during a summer workshop at 826NYC in Brooklyn...
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Flushing Meadows Pitch & Putt in Queens, complete with water hazards and nets for fishing the balls out...
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Students in Jim Cooney's Beginner Theater class at the Broadway Dance Center working on a routine...
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“Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner, Connecting Communities Through Language” includes musical instruments and African costumes along with photographs, field notes, tape recordings and artifacts from the Turner collection at the Anacostia Community Museum. A related, Turneresque exhibition, “Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art,” is on view at the National Museum of African Art...
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Yan Ni, left, portrays an adulterous wife and Sun Honglei a detective hired to kill her and her lover in Zhang Yimou’s film “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop....
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