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Two Cinema Chains Refuse To Screen "Crouching Tiger" Sequel Because It's Also...
Regal Cinemas and Cinemark declared that they won't show Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend, the first major release to appear on Imax and an online streaming service on the same date....
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The Destruction Of Mecca
"The dominant architectural site in the city is [no longer] the Sacred Mosque, where the Kaaba, the symbolic focus of Muslims everywhere, is. It is the obnoxious Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel ... The...
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Today: Let's Talk About Growing Arts Audiences
Join the conversation: Building Arts Audiences - live panel discussion with Kurt Andersen, NEA chairman and national arts leaders. Oct. 1 at 3pm est. <a...
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Dallas Symphony Starts A Fellowship Program For String Players
I... "want them to come away with an overview of the nuts and bolts of an orchestra, what it takes to run and fund an orchestra like this. This is not a management program, but we want to give them the...
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Why The Artworld Is So Fascinated By Outsider Art
With the growing interest in outsider art comes the seeming contradiction of “mainstream” outsider artists, especially in the US, where monographs and high prices have created cults among collectors.
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Guggenheim Museum Plans Expansion
"The expansion plan comes just over 60 years after the Guggenheim commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design its original space and more than a decade after it abandoned a scheme for a second, Frank...
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Manuscript Of Important Mozart Sonata Found
"The head of the Hungarian National Szechenyi Library's music collection has stumbled across a rare discovery. As he looked through a folder of unidentified music scores, among the many copies and...
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Kennicott: How To Visit A Museum
"After years of spending time in art museums, I’ve come to accept that I believe wildly contradictory and incompatible things about art. The usual cliché about this realization would be that by forcing...
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UK Theatres Becoming Important Venues For Standup Comedy
"Regional theatres are playing an increasingly important role in hosting stand-up comics, with the number of comedy events in venues around the UK up 46% since 2009."
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How Exactly Does The Human Brain Pay Attention To Something?
"Every moment, our brains are bombarded with information, from without and within. The eyes alone convey more than a hundred billion signals to the brain every second. ... How do our brains select the...
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"Crime And Punishment" Musical Coming To Moscow
Director Andrei Konchalovsky (known for the Russian film epic Siberiade and the Hollywood movies Runaway Train and Tango and Cash) will be staging an updated version of a rock-opera from 30 years ago...
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Watch Matisse's "The Swimming Pool" Get Restored
"After a five-year conservation effort to restore its original colour balance, height, and spatial configuration, Henri Matisse's The Swimming Pool returns to view at New York City's Museum of Modern...
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Georgian Cinema Emerges From The Shadows
"The story of Georgian cinema stretches back more than a century and is filled with remarkable achievements, from silent films featuring stunning landscapes and dynamic editing to subtle anti-Soviet...
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Family Of Ballet Stars Make Their Move To Broadway
Siblings Megan and Robert Fairchild and wife/sister-in-law Tiler Peck, all principal dancers at New York City Ballet, chat with Playbill.com about their upcoming leading roles in On the Town, An...
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Coming Back To Ballet After Beating Thyroid Trouble And Weight Gain
Kathryn Morgan had been dancing with New York City Ballet for four years when she was diagnosed with an under-functioning thyroid - complete with exhaustion, hair loss, migraines, and, of course,...
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Child Porn Charges Against Australian Artist Dismissed
"Paul Yore was charged after his large-scale installation, Everything is F---ed, was shown at [a Melbourne-area gallery] last year. The collage featured children's faces superimposed on images of male...
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Toronto Theatre Has An Odd New Policy For Critics
"Factory wants to have a week of previews, then an opening night, and only then, five days after the opening, will they invite the media, at a point when the run is half over. Why? Most other theatres...
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Can You Construct "Chance" Creative Encounters And Measure Them?
"Collisions (i.e. chance encounters) between creative people serve as the active reagent for great feats of entrepreneurial activity. Pack a bunch of smart people into urban space and genius is bound...
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Is Our Music Experience Being Degraded By Streaming?
The idea that music may go the way of newspapers, in which every outlet runs the same story, originating from the same source, over and over again ad nauseam, gives me a little chill. It's bad enough...
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