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A Gallery Girl's Art Fair Diary, Pt. 2

Heidi Kim | Posted 05.22.2012

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Heidi Kim

As fairgoers clumped around Petroc's "Élan Vital," we decided to lay a boundary of masking tape around the sculpture in efforts to dissuade climbing, fingerprints, and face-smearing on the glass sphere and stainless steel podium. In the end, our genius idea was only mildly effective.

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Michael Uthoff Is Not Done Yet

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Dance St. Louis, Ballet News, Michael Uthoff, Arts News, Video, Arts News
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

2012-05-18-20120516greentable.jpg Michael Uthoff, executive and artistic director of Dance St. Louis, is not done yet. He lives life as he always has: on his own terms and doing what he loves best.

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Sacrificing Baby Ducks for the Arts

Howard Sherman | Posted 05.17.2012

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Howard Sherman

News directors, please leave the animal stories and pictures to the Internet, which was apparently built specifically to disseminate such "aw"-inspiring material. And with the time you free up, maybe you can spare a minute for the arts now and then.

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Possessed: Voodoo's Origins and Influence from the Blues to Britney

Debra Devi | Posted 05.16.2012

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Debra Devi

This was the religion of many slaves brought from West Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean. Vodun was brutally repressed by slave-owners, yet its powerful beats, ethics and aesthetics endured. We owe our concepts of cool, soul and rock and roll to it.

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Happy Birthday Salvador Dali!

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Arts News, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory, Surrealism, Joan Miro, Art Birthday, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Arts News

Today is the birthday of everyone's favorite mustachioed surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. The eccentric Spaniard, who was a lover of all things gild...

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The Week In Art: Cardboard Boxes, Thai Temples And The Bard's Birthday

Posted 04.28.2012

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This week we saw some crazy art endeavors, whether they involved 24 hours converted into a single photo or drawings that look exactly like photographs...

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Bessie Smith: Music's Original, Bitchinest Bad Girl

Debra Devi | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Ruby Walker, Blues, Bessie Smith, History of Words, History, Etymology, Sex, Blues Music, Blues Legends, African American History, Sexual Language, Sexual Euphemisms, Blues Singers, History of Blues, Blues Musicians, Arts News, Bad Girls, Janis Joplin, Prohibition, Buffet Flat, Chris Albertson, Video, Arts News
Debra Devi

What hugely popular female singer beat a rival unconscious, slept with her musical director, seduced her female backup dancers, frequented live sex shows and mortified New York society by telling a wealthy fan to "get the f*ck away from me"? 1920s blues singer Bessie Smith.

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Gareth Pugh: Dance and Design

Trisha Andres | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Mark Ronson, Royal Opera House, Mark Ronson Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Gareth Pugh, Gareth Pugh Royal Ballet, Slidepollajax, Arts News, Video, Arts News
Trisha Andres

Photo by Bill Cooper. Courtesy of ROH. It was difficult to say no to the Royal Opera House's resident choreographer, Wayne McGregor, says Gareth Pu...

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Instagram Spotlight On American Technicolor

Posted 04.10.2012

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Pablo Picasso reportedly once said, "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." With this in mind, we are ...

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Haiku Reviews

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Michael Brewster, Peter Frank, Laurence Vittes, Arts News, Judy Chicago, Rosson Crow, Mark Rothko, Pacific Standard Time, George Heymont, Red, Haiku Reviews, Slidepollajax, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a monthly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditi...

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LOOK: Rare Cezanne Watercolor Study Is For Sale

Posted 03.28.2012

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A rare watercolor study by the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne will be auctioned at Christie's in New York soon. For over sixty years, ...

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Happy Birthday, Barbican

Crane.tv | Posted 03.28.2012

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Crane.tv

This year sees the Barbican Centre celebrate 30 years of contribution to the arts by crafting a spectacular season of cultural events.

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Military Funding vs. Funding for the Arts: What Does the Difference Say About American Values?

Brendan McMahon | Posted 03.31.2012

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Brendan McMahon

If we as Americans are so willing to grossly over-fund our military and defund our arts, our deepest expression of ourselves both at home and abroad is simply an expression of war.

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Now Dig Kellie Jones Talking About Art and Black Los Angeles: Part 2

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.13.2012

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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, " and I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones. Here's the second part of that conversation.

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Zuccotti Park Protest Lives on, in Augmented Reality App

Amelia Marzec | Posted 03.11.2012

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Amelia Marzec

If you missed seeing the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, there's another chance for you to experience the occupation at the original site.

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Now Dig Kellie Jones Talking About Art and Black Los Angeles

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.10.2012

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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is at the UCLA Hammer Museum and is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones.

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Time Enough at Last: Durational Theatre

Bess Rowen | Posted 03.06.2012

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Bess Rowen

Those of us who make and go to theatre are all just people, and you never know what an audience is willing to see unless theatre makers endeavor to challenge them.

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 4 -- World's Strangest Paintings for the New Year

James Elkins | Posted 02.27.2012

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James Elkins

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland.

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Steve Jobs Bronze Statue Unveiled In Budapest (VIDEO)

Reuters | Posted 02.20.2012

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian software company unveiled what it said was the world's first bronze statue of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs Wednesd...

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Lost and Gained In Translation

Bess Rowen | Posted 02.17.2012

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Bess Rowen

Just like the characters in Chinglish, we all try to communicate with each other, even when it is "sleepy" (one character's substitution for "tiring").

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Hillary Clinton Hosts The Nation's Top Artists

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.03.2012

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By BRETT ZONGKER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama in lauding the actors, musicians and others receiving Kennedy Center Ho...

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 2

James Elkins | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Religion, Glasgow, Watercolor, Trees, Fine Art, Manuscript, Art Criticism, Mysteries, Puzzle, Nature, Painting, Art History, Alchemy, Artists, Art, Philosophy, Hallucinations, Arts News, Mysticism, Arts News
James Elkins

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

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Artist Brings Virtual Currency to Occupy Wall Street

Amelia Marzec | Posted 01.07.2012

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Amelia Marzec

Meet Fran Ilich, a media artist and activist who started his own investment bank six years ago with nothing more than server space.

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Jeanmarie Simpson -- Artivist in the Modern Landscape (Part 2)

Dylan Brody | Posted 12.05.2011

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Dylan Brody

In the second portion of the conversation I moved beyond questions of content and inspiration and was able to really begin learning about her creative process.

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Cops Nab Alleged Vandal Of Famous Roman Landmark

AP | Posted 11.05.2011

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ROME -- Police said Monday they had detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of tr...

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