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George Heymont

Fishing Expeditions

George Heymont | Posted June 3, 2012

Read More: Film, Video, Cory Shiozaki, Ken Burns, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, Richard Imamura, Shark Attack III: Megalodon, The Little Mermaid, The Manzanar Fishing Club, The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep, Finding Nemo, Julia Pott, Manzanar, Moby-Dick, Pinocchio

Ever since man ventured out to sea, stories about bizarre marine life have filled our folklore and literature. From tales of ancient sea monsters to Melville's Moby-Dick, from purported sightings of the Loch Ness Monster to films such as 2007's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep and 2009's Mega...

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Zahra Ebrahim

The Designer Will Be Right With You

Zahra Ebrahim | Posted June 3, 2012

Read More: Design, Design Help, Design Specialists, Design Walk In, Design Walk In Toronto, Design Walk-In, Designers, Toronto

Designers always end up with the short end of the stick. Our work is misunderstood, and no one knows exactly what it is we do. When people do encounter a need for design in their lives, they don't know where to find their designer. Maybe they'll Google, and find links...

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Fern Siegel

Stage Door: Clybourne Park

Fern Siegel | Posted June 2, 2012

Read More: NY Around Town, NY Arts, Broadway, Bruce Norris, Bruce-Norris-Clybourne-Park, Clybourn Park, Clybourn Park Play, Drama, New York Theater, Race, Race In America, Raison In The Sun, Theater

Race is a complicated issue in America -- often unfairly reduced to PC dictates from the left or rabid anger from the right. A candid exploration of America's racial history -- and progress -- is ongoing. Obama's election as the first African American president made millions proud, but the discussion...

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Kari Adelaide

Shoot The Lobster

Kari Adelaide | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: New York City, Art, Art Exhibitions, Chelsea Art, Miami Arts, New York Art, New York Art Galleries, The Clash

Shoot the Lobster is a new project space at Martos Gallery with intricate straying that has included work by Chris Martin, Joshua Smith, Ryan Foerster, Bill Saylor and Aidas Bareikas, among others. The programming will continue to present inventive possibilities, temporarily settling in remote spaces, including...

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Ken Goldberg

Ansel Adams: Picturing California's Future

Ken Goldberg | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: UC Ansel Adams, Ansel Adam Photography, Ansel Adam University Of California, Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams UC, Ansel Adams Fiat Lux, Ansel Adams Photography, California Ansel Adams
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Everyone knows Ansel Adams' photos of Yosemite. But I'd never heard of Fiat Lux, a set of over 6,700 Ansel Adams photographs of the University of California that constitute his second largest body of work. Adams shot these photos at the request of UC...

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Crane.tv

RCA 2012: The Next Big Thing in London Fashion (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Video, 2012 Rca Fashion Ma Show, RCA Fashion, Royal College Of Art, Rca Fashion Show, Royal-College-Of-Art-Fashion-Show

After months of preparing for the next gen show of the year, the students at the Royal College of Art presented their collections at the 2012 Fashion MA Show yesterday. Whilst the vast majority of the audience were wondering if they would catch a glimpse of...

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Debra Ollivier

Bob Balaban On The Magic Of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

Debra Ollivier | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Moonrise Kingdom, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson, Baby Boomers, Slideexpand

In the beginning of Wes Anderson's new movie "Moonrise Kingdom," Bob Balaban appears on a desolate New England island looking a bit like one of Santa's helpers. As the movie's narrator, he sets the scene for what's to come: an emotionally subtle but complex love story between two...

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Lightsey Darst

The Poorest Art: Dance and Money (I)

Lightsey Darst | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Dance, Dance Income, Dance Jobs, Dance Wages, Dancer Income, Dancer Income Wages Lifestyle, Dancer Jobs, Dancers

I've come to a conclusion about dance and money: if dancers did not sometimes sleep with rich people, American dance as we know it would cease to exist.

Absurd and degrading as this conclusion is -- can you imagine the same being said of any other art form? -- the...

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Annie Fehrenbacher

It's All Happening: The Beach Boys Return to the Bowl

Annie Fehrenbacher | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Beach Boys Fan, Beach Boys Fans, Brian Wilson Beach Boys, Fan Fiction, Los Angeles The Bowl, The Bowl

"Because it's hard to find someone you love who loves you -- but you can begin, at least, by finding someone who loves your love song" -- Dave Hickey, "Air Guitar"

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The Beach Boys on Ed Sullivan, 1964

Brian Wilson is God. If that...

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Nicole Garton

First-of-Its-Kind Listening Gallery Opens in Los Angeles

Nicole Garton | Posted June 3, 2012

Read More: Los Angeles Sonos, Acoustic Gallery, Listening Gallery, Listening To Music, Sonos, Sonos LA, Sonos Gallery, Sonos Music
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Sonos Studio | Photo Credit: Ralf Strathmann | Courtesy of Sonos/Jessie Cohen PR

At a time when more and more Americans are listening to music exclusively through headphones, Sonos Inc. is leading the counter-cultural revolution toward listening the old-fashioned way: out...

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Tida Tippapart

New York Close Up: Mark ii

Tida Tippapart | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, David Brooks, Eddie Martinez, Erin Shirreff, Josephine Halvorson, Liz Magic Laser, New York City, art21, art21 New York Close Up, Diana Al-Hadid, Mika Rottenberg, New York Close Up, New York Close Up Art

Conversation with Nick Ravich, co-creator and producer of Art 21's New York Close Up

It will be a great place if they ever finish it, said O. Henry.

Writing about the transitory state of New York City seems like an impossible feat, yet the city as subject...

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David Trumble

Life Is Organic, Subjective and Entirely Individual

David Trumble | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Video, Art, Cartoon, Drawing

Hi everyone. Trumble here.

Two years into my life, I was trying to make sense of the world through drawing. I didn't always succeed, but like all two year olds I had a go.

Twenty six years into my life, and I've gotten slightly better at it. I have...

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Leonard Maltin

OFF-HOLLYWOOD: The Five Best Indie Movies To See This Month

Leonard Maltin | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Francois Cluzet, Hugh Dancy, Jane Fonda, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peace Love & Misunderstanding, Foreign Films, Hysteria, Indie Film, Maiwenn, Olivier-Nakache-The-Intouchables, Omar Sy, Polisse, Safety Not Guaranteed, Sundance Film Festival 2012

by Leonard Maltin

This may be the first summer movie season where box-office results in China and Russia mean more to Hollywood than the domestic returns. That's not good news for those of us who crave movies for mature audiences, as those mushrooming new markets seem especially hungry for superheroes,...

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MutualArt

Beyond the Scream: May Auction Highlights

MutualArt | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Art Auction Records, Art Auctions, Christie's, Hong Kong, Modern Art, Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, Impressionism, London, New York Art

MutualArt.com imageThe month kicked off with Sotheby's historic sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream, marking a new world record...

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Daniel J. Kushner

Artist Christopher Winter Conjures an "Unnatural History"

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Christopher Winter, Edelman Arts, New York City, Art Galleries, Contemporary Art, Painting

On May 5, the Edelman Arts gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side opened its sixth exhibition of works by the English-born, Berlin-based artist Christopher Winter. Comprised predominantly of acrylic-on-canvas works from 2012, the show, as its title "Unnatural History" suggests, does much to distort -- both subtly and explicitly --...

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Christopher Duggan

National Museum Of Dance: Art In The Foyer 2012

Christopher Duggan | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: 4dancers, Inside/Out, Jacob's Pillow, National Museum Of Dance, Art Gallery, Dance, Dance Photography, Photography

Last night was the opening of my year-long exhibition at the National Museum of Dance, and it was a really exciting moment in my artistic career -- not just because any curation of my work is incredibly flattering, but because the photographs I chose to display all showcase...

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Kisa Lala

Walking On Air: Getting Cloud-Specific With Tomás Saraceno

Kisa Lala | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Aerial Habitation, Bobby Fisher, Buckminster Fuller, Flying City, Gilles Clement, Gyula Kosice, Hamburger Bahnhof, International Space Station, International Space University, Cloud City, Environment

By Kiša Lala

Tomás Saraceno, Metropolitan Museum rooftop, Inside his sculpture Cloud City. Photographed By Bobby Fisher, 2012
Tomás Saraceno, Metropolitan Museum...

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Liz Markus

Studio Visit: José Lerma

Liz Markus | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Video, Liz Markus, Cam Raleigh, Ille Arts, Jose Lerma, Roberto Paradise, Slidepollajax, The Credentialst

Last November I visited José Lerma in East Hampton where he was working on two shows, "Jibaro Jizz" at Roberto Paradise gallery in Puerto Rico, and "The Credentialist" at CAM Raleigh, his first solo museum show. I fell in love with an enormous canvas with ballpoint pen blue scribbles depicting...

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Kim Witman

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

Kim Witman | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Don Giovanni, Wolf Trap, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera

Your mission, should you decide to accept it:

Memorize a 2,000-word speech, some of it monologue and some of it dialogue.

Deliver most of it according to someone else's requirements of speed and inflection, some of which change on the fly.

Perform it while moving around a large area on...

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John M. Eger

There Is More Than Art in the Art Districts

John M. Eger | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Art, Creative Economy, Creativity, Culture Districts, Design, Downtown, Incubators

Arts districts, usually found on the periphery of a city center, are intended to create a critical mass of art galleries, dance clubs, theaters, art cinemas, music venues, and public squares for performances. More often, such places attract restaurants, cafes, and retail shops.

More and more however, cities are...

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