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I'm Sorry For The Dance World

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"So on behalf of the dance world, permit me to apologize for the mess you're entering into. It's insane. But it's *incredibly* exciting. The world you thought you were entering into is long dead, and none of the old (anti-intellectual, super-sexist, super-classist and SUPER-racist) rules of dance history need hold true for you." DanceUSA 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

Director Of Canceled Tannhauser Defends His Production

From Arts Journal

"In Wagner's opera, the mortal Tannhäuser sins by loving the goddess Venus. Today the story can no longer be told as a scandal that leads to expulsion from society. I'm interested in the great archaic theme of guilt. Why then shouldn't Tannhäuser be made into a perpetrator, into a war criminal? In my staging Tannhäuser is forced by members of the Wehrmacht to shoot a family. The production deals with individual guilt under National Socialism and during the development of the Federal ... Quick Read

German Court Rules Google Must Remove Search Results If They Threaten Privacy

From Arts Journal

"The feature is notorious in Germany after it began suggesting results for the wife of former German President Christian Wulff suggesting she might have been a prostitute or had an affiliation with a red-light district." Der Spiegel 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

That's A Surprise - Vatican To Show Art At This Year's Venice Biennale

From Arts Journal

"For the first time in the contemporary art festival's history, one of its pavilions will showcase art commissioned by the Vatican. The Holy See said on Tuesday that the works inside its debut pavilion were not overtly religious but had been inspired by the book of Genesis." The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Researchers: Women Are Disappearing From Hollywood Movies

From Arts Journal

"Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as "Bridesmaids" and the "Hunger Games" and "Twilight" series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism." Los Angeles Times 05/14/13 ... Quick Read

Even In The Internet Age, Cannes Is Still The Place To Be

From Arts Journal

"Though we now live in an age when films can be viewed via links on computers anywhere in the world, the number of journalists covering this maddening 12-day affair has multiplied by five in the last four decades, to nearly 4,000." Los Angeles Times 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Beau Brummell, The Founding Father Of Dandyism

From Arts Journal

"It's unusual for a tribe or breed to have such a definitive beginning, but all agree that Brummell was It. This Englishman of middle-class birth climbed into Regency-era aristocratic circles based on no more than his verbal wit and the eloquence of his dress." The Wall Street Journal 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Pilobolus Dances With Drones

From Arts Journal

Company executive director Itamar Kubovy: "The prevalence of drones made it more important to understand what the kinds of interactions between man and machine is like. We wanted to explore having a space that is occupied by both machines and people - this idea that a machine is watching and surveilling and a human is responding to that." U.S. News & World Report 05/15/13 (includes video) ... Quick Read

New York Philharmonic Plays The Dresden Volkswagen Factory

From Arts Journal

"A concert in a car factory using parts of a luxury sedan as percussion instruments is one thing, but a Volkswagen suspended above the New York Philharmonic creates another level of musical drama entirely." Reuters 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Planning A National Museum For Palestine

From Arts Journal

Jack Persekian, director of the new institution, to open in Birzeit in late 2014: "The Palestinian Museum is a political symbol only in so far that it celebrates the accomplishments of the Palestinian people in arts and culture, and that it affirms the presence of Palestinians as a people who have agency, who are productive, who shape their own histories." The Art Newspaper 05/14/13 ... Quick Read

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I'm Sorry For The Dance World

Director Of Canceled Tannhauser Defends His Production

German Court Rules Google Must Remove Search Results If They Threaten Privacy

That's A Surprise - Vatican To Show Art At This Year's Venice Biennale

Researchers: Women Are Disappearing From Hollywood Movies

Even In The Internet Age, Cannes Is Still The Place To Be

Beau Brummell, The Founding Father Of Dandyism

Pilobolus Dances With Drones

New York Philharmonic Plays The Dresden Volkswagen Factory

Planning A National Museum For Palestine

THINGS WE LIKE

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