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Happy Birthday, Harvey Lichtenstein!

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Arts Management, New York City Opera, Peter Brook, Eliot Feld, Harvey Lichtenstein, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bam, Bill T. Jones, Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, New York City Ballet, Culture News
Michael Kaiser

Harvey was best known as the inspirational leader who turned the Brooklyn Academy of Music into one of the great arts institutions of the nation. Before becoming an arts manager, he was a dancer who collaborated with choreographers like Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld, Bill T. Jones and Pina Bausch.

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Shine-y Happy People: Another Week of Miami Excess

Tara Solomon | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Leandra Medine, Miami Restaurants, Honey Shine, Miami Around Town, Alonzo Mourning, Bal Harbour Mall, Seth Browarnik, Bar Tanaka, Bill T. Jones, Miami News
Tara Solomon

Oh, the things we learned this week, from how to style oneself with edgy aplomb (with the help of Internet it girl Leandra Medine) to the secrets of a happy marriage, NBA-style

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WATCH: The Religious Roots Of Dancer And Choreographer Bill T. Jones

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: New York Live Arts, Fela! Super Fly, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/the Promised Land, Hiv, Arnie Zane, Everybody Works, Modern Dance, Bill T. Jones, Grieving, Still/Here, Video, Blauvelt Mountain, Aids, Christianity, Dance, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., African Dance, Religion News

Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to...

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Lucas Kavner

Keith Haring's Iconic Art Exhibited

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: AIDS Activism, Pop Shop Soho, Street Art, Deborah Harry, Keith Haring, Painting, Gladstone Gallery, New Keith Haring Exhibit, Bill T. Jones, Chelsea, New York, Keith Haring Foundation, Arts News

Keith Haring was never one to shy away from an audience. He wanted to give his work to everybody, any way he could. Even after his death in 1990 at a...

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Brainy And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones

Kris Wilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choreography, Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Streb, ICA Boston, Karole Armitage, Dance, Arnie Zane, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., Body Against Body, So You Think You Can Dance, Marina Abramovic, Dancing With the Stars, Arts News
Kris Wilton

Bill T. Jones has a long history of pushing envelopes and challenging audiences. In the 1970s, when he was getting his start in New York's downtown da...

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Tony Award-winning Choreographer Bill T. Jones is Honored Just as His Broadway Show Fela! Closes This Weekend

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kennedy Center Honors 2010, Broadway Shows, Bill T. Jones, Fela! The Musical, Dance Career, Arnie Zane, Ugene O' Neill Theater, New York News
Brad Balfour

Just as choreographer/director Bill T. Jones was receiving his Kennedy Center Honors -- which were presented Dec. 5th at the awards event in Washingto...

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A Tale of Two Biennials: Santa Fe and Denver

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francesco Bonami, Dziga Vertov, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Mau, Biennial of the Americas, Bill T. Jones, Daniel Belasco, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Maria Lassnig, Rosa Martinez, Oscar Munoz, Sarah Lewis, Lotte Reiniger, Mary Reid Kelley, The Nature of Things, SITE Biennial, Paola Santoscoy, Dario Escobar, Kara Walker, David Adjaye, Lance Fung, Armando Miquelez, Dave Hickey, Edison Manufacturing Company, SITE Santa Fe, Rocco Landesman, Klaus Ottman, Gabrial Acevedo Velarde, Denver Biennial, The Dissolve, Robert Storr, William Kentridge, Santa Fe, Arts News
Leanne Goebel

Sixteen years ago, Santa Fe had a vision to establish a contemporary art museum with the focus of bringing contemporary art to the city with an accompanying biennial. In 2008, Denver decided to join the biennial craze.

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The Best Shoes in New York!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award, Robert Flack, Kenny Ortega, Fred Astaire, Bill T. Jones, Adele Astaire, Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

The 28th annual Fred & Adele Astaire Award winners were announced at an event that perpetuates the platinum-set memory of the world's most stellar brother and sister dance team of all time.

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Why Kanye West Could Never Be Fela Kuti

Derek Beres | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill T Jones, Broadway, Modern Dance, Nigeria, Kanye West, Fela Kuti, Afrobeat, Entertainment News
Derek Beres

While Kanye West's admitted disdain for books is well known, I reflected on his recent comments while at the Eugene O'Neill Theater watching Fela!, the production based on the life Fela Kuti.

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