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A Photographic History Of The Circus
Even today, running away to join the circus has a glorious sound to it: It's a myth of reinvention, of taking on a new identity, of dressing in spangles and glitter and swinging above the crowds on a...
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Paws & Claws: Animals in Art
PAWS & CLAWS: ANIMALS IN ART By Elizabeth Sobieski Photo Credit: Christopher Fay Paws & Claws at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County is a twenty-first century take on the historically...
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I remember that a friend of mine in California sent me a heads-up on the 17th of December saying that the USA and Cuba were about to free some of their prisoners in a gesture of better times to come....
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Röyksopp - The Inevitable End? (Video)
''Röyksopp'' is Norwegian for mushroom cloud -- the result of an atomic blast. It all started when two boys, with a shared passion for electronic music, met at a young age. Svei Berge and Torbjørn...
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Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup VII
MATT MAGEE, Green Litmus, 2014, Oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches Matt Magee's art evinces a wide array of sources, but a focused sensibility - one that allows him access to many different materials,...
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Groupthink: The Best Group Exhibitions From Beirut to Beijing
As we mark the start of the 2015 season, we’ve collected some of the most outstanding group exhibitions currently on view around the world, from Beirut to Beijing. The curatorial forces behind these...
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Cloud Eye Control Half Life
Photo courtesy of the artist Cloud Eye Control is a multimedia performance group based in Los Angeles that uses animation, music and live performers to create hybrid theatrical works. The current...
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Rome Journal: Saint Teresa, on Ecstasy
One of the great Bernini sculptures "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" appears in S. Maria Della Vittoria on the Via XX Septembre. The sculpture depicts an angel shooting an arrow into Teresa. The...
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Passage & Hours
j.frede : Passage - (4pm - 5pm) Man has long been aware of the passing of what we refer to as Time. The celestial bodies traveling above us in regularity were surely the first sign to man that all...
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This MLK Day, See and Learn About the 5 Vehicles That Helped Change America...
Martin Luther King Day is a great opportunity to reflect and remember both MLK Jr.’s achievements and the Civil Rights Movement that changed this country forever. While the Civil Rights Movement is a...
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Honest Moments
Film by Caleb Stumpfl Interview by Anna Cox A word from Caleb: I'm pretty lucky to have creative friends, Nina being one of them. Last month we started talking about making a film together and the rest...
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Poet Carl Phillips Talks Risk
In August of last year Graywolf Press released the tenth volume in their acclaimed "Art of" series, this time authored by poet and four-time National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips. While past...
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Mescal in the Cemetery
So I'm walking around this cemetery at one A.M. I'm drinking mescal and I'm deep into Mexico. Normally this set of facts portends trouble to come. Not this night. I am in Oaxaca, Mexico, surrounded by...
View ArticleLoving Portraits: James Klosty's John Cage Was
A highly social individual, as well as one of the most influential experimental composers and theoreticians of the postwar period, John Cage touched the lives of many important artists, influencing...
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Championing Israeli Contemporary Art
Deville Cohen, "Crime Scene." Video still from "ZERO," 2013. Supported by the Artis Grant Program. Courtesy of Artis / the artist Although Rosette Delug has only been collecting art for a decade, her...
View ArticleMatisse's Cut-Outs at MoMA and on Film/ Picasso and the Camera at the Gagosian
No surprise: the Museum of Modern Art has extended its exhibition of Matisse's cut outs as a result of popular demand. The same happened when the show featuring the master's late in life career debuted...
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'The Marvelous Wonderettes,' San Pedro Theatre Club, San Pedro, CA
In olden times, to commemorate a rite of passage, young people would gather in a public space in the company of chaperones to sing with and dance to music. The music was a confession, it was a...
View ArticleThis V-Day, Let's Work Together to Prevent Violence Against All Women and Girls
We are representatives of the first all-transgender benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues. In 2004, Eve Ensler supplemented The Vagina Monologues, writing a transgender piece after having...
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With Eyes Firmly Fixed On Political Targets
Few people would deny that politics is highly theatrical. Whether in film (The Candidate, All The President's Men, Lincoln) or onstage (The Best Man, Frost/Nixon, All The Way), conflict is easily found...
View ArticleMarek Vrabec
Every teacher I know will tell you about the immense satisfaction that comes from watching a former student accomplish great things. It isn't enough simply to give an entertaining class; one wants to...
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