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Comedian Mo Amer discusses fleeing Kuwait for Texas early in his life, working the high school stand up circuit, and the art of being genuine. Then, he plays a game about world flags.Friday, November 16, 2018 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Actor Dascha Polanco chats juggling work and nursing school while auditioning for Orange Is The New Black . Then, she tests her nose in a game about essential oils.Friday, November 16, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Howard Sherman surveys the current landscape, where experienced critics discarded by legacy publications are now turning up at high-quality websites, and, though an imbalance remains, a few of those legacy outlets have hired younger...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Flavorwire
Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, we’ve got a bit of non-fiction horror that will make...Friday, November 16, 2018 from iGNANT.de
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The designer has teamed up with Young Fathers, Neneh Cherry, James Lavelle and more to create an immersive installation inspired by club culture and rebellion for the French champagne brand The post Tom Hingston curates Veuve Clicquot’s...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
Vanessa Hudgens plays both a Chicago baker and an engaged European duchess in a holiday romance meant to muscle in on a surprisingly robust cable genre.Friday, November 16, 2018 from ARTnews
The artist chronicles a very busy week in and around New York spent listening to music and podcasts, finding an upstate wedding without cell service, and installing his current show at Petzel. Read More The post Consumer Reports: Seth...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
We take a look at Puccini’s visits and premieres, as his “Il Trittico” returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where it had its premiere a century ago.Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
He won Oscars for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men.” But his jaundiced view of the movie business was well known.Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
A cultural community has emerged in San Diego and Tijuana that recognizes where the cities diverge but also where they overlap. The post A Vibrant Arts Community Bridges Two Cities Separated by a Contentious Border appeared first on...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Colossal
British artist Sue Austin creates multimedia, performance, and installation art, using her wheelchair as a means to explore new patterns of movement. In 2012, Austin was commissioned to create a series of multimedia events as part of...Friday, November 16, 2018 from artnet News
The copper torch had been on display inside the statue's pedestal after a replica replaced it in Lady Liberty's arm in 1985. The post Lady Liberty’s Original Bomb-Scarred Torch Has Been Moved to Its New Home in the Forthcoming...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
"For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma. The post Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
"My Squirrel Days” is the upbeat tale of Ellie Kemper’s hard-won Hollywood career, and “Out of My Mind” relives Alan Arkin’s spiritual journey. Both authors recite their own audiobooks.Friday, November 16, 2018 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.com
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) beats $58.4m record set by Jeff Koons Talk about making a splash. David Hockney has become the most highly valued living artist after one of his best known swimming pool paintings sold for...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
Gyorgy Kurtag’s adaptation of Beckett’s play has been a decade in the making, and it stands with the best music of his career.Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
The British actor Richard Armitage delivers a masterly reading of Heather Morris’s World War II story, “The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”Friday, November 16, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Over the past century we’ve vastly increased the time and money invested in science, but in scientists’ own judgement we’re producing the most important breakthroughs at a near-constant rate. On a per-dollar or per-person basis, this...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Neatorama
Sneaky Zebra has brought us cosplay videos from conventions for years. This one is a compilation of marvelous Marvel character cosplayers, illustrating Stan Lee's philosophy of the Marvel universe. -via Geeks Are SexyFriday, November 16, 2018 from Neatorama
When one of NASA's highly advanced equipment in space broke down not long ago which had been later repaired after a few weeks, sources reported that they succeeded by doing the "have you turned it on or off" approach. But of...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Neatorama
There's sand everywhere - heck, there are whole deserts filled with sand - but in reality, the world is actually running out of construction grade sand. As sand becomes a scarce resource, there's a rise in criminal enterprises that...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Fubiz
Si vous cherchez un café original et accueillant à Londres, faites un tour au God’s Own Junkyard, un bar entièrement construit de néons. Pour les passionnés d’ambiances feutrés et légèrement kitsch, ce lieu promet une expérience...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Dezeen
Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. Read moreFriday, November 16, 2018 from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
William Goldman wrote the scripts for more than 30 movies, including Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and The Princess Bride .Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
The cunning kitties came to Hiroshima Onomichi City Museum of Art two years ago for a feline-centric exhibition and never left, demanding free entry. The post Denied Entry, Cats Try to Paw Past Japanese Museum Security Guard appeared...Friday, November 16, 2018 from ArtsJournal
“Q: But are you allowed to go back? A: You never really know … they told me I’m free, I’m allowed to go back. Q: But you’re not sure that they’re telling you the truth? A: I don’t know if they...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
In their work, Beatriz González and Teresa Margolles represent the hoards of people who have been crossing the Venezuela–Colombia border. The post Two Artists Address the Mass Venezuelan Exodus appeared first on Hyperallergic .Friday, November 16, 2018 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Most of us hate the cold - wearing ten layers of your warmest clothes and constantly being afraid to slip on ice certainly doesn't sound too fun. But not to the Hjertefølgers. On December 2013, this family of six moved to a remote part...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Creative Boom
British sculptor Cerith Wyn Evan wins this year's Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
Applications received by Feb 1, 2019, will receive consideration towards financial packages. The post Apply Now to the MFA in Intermedia + Digital Arts [IMDA] appeared first on Hyperallergic .Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
The director and star of “Widows” discuss authenticity in art and why Hollywood needs its own civil rights movement.Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
The Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen has delivered a sullen, slow thriller driven by grief and dread, A.O. Scott writes.Friday, November 16, 2018 from a-n The Artists Information Company » News
Membership body representing the UK’s creative industries warns that more clarity is needed on the final relationship and how this will effect ease of movement and trade of services for the creative industries. The post Brexit Withdrawal...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
Richie Merritt, 17, makes his acting debut opposite Matthew McConaughey in a crime drama. A second movie is already lined up.Friday, November 16, 2018 from Hyperallergic
This week, artist studios in New York, Nova Scotia, Scotland, and Texas. The post A View From the Easel appeared first on Hyperallergic .Friday, November 16, 2018 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.com
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh From his lipsticked selfies to his troubling first world war work, Warhol shows there’s no end to his genius. Poor Paolozzi just can’t keep up In 1963, just as pop art was getting...Friday, November 16, 2018 from PetaPixel » Inspiration
I don’t have an expensive camera. I use a Nikon D3000, which is one of the oldest entry-level DSLRs and I have only an 18-55mm kit lens. Because of this, I have to be creative to make good shots. I always try to make different photos...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.com
Hockney’s swimmer breaks a record, the Spands feel the chill and Fernand Léger imagines a female utopia – all in our weekly dispatch Gainsborough’s Family Album This artist who made a living profiling the rich painted some of his...Friday, November 16, 2018 from It's Nice That
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Plus, Yemen details the damage done to over 30 historical sites and a bloody 'Salvator Mundi' is unveiled in New York. The post Art Industry News: A Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Room’ Is Now Heading to a Las Vegas Casino + Other...Friday, November 16, 2018 from a-n The Artists Information Company » News
Other News In Brief: David Hockney painting breaks record for a living artist; California wildfires threaten cultural sites; and MoMA curator Quentin Bajac leaves to become director of the French national photography museum Jeu de Paume....Friday, November 16, 2018 from Bored Panda
"We were hanging out with our mutual friends and their kid, playing with these alphabet flashcards. We both got a laugh out of the card for "Q" which read: "Q is for Quinoa." That was so entertaining to us because, well, what little kid...Friday, November 16, 2018 from Colossal
Photographer Diego Moreno incorporates ancestral imagery with a familiar contemporary universe in his series “In My Mind There is Never Silence.” The artist shares with Colossal that the characters that populate the series...Friday, November 16, 2018 from ArtsJournal
“Throughout her rise to fame, Rosalía has been mired in a debate over her supposed appropriation of an art form with gitano origins. The 25-year-old star is not gitana, nor is she from Andalusia, the birthplace of flamenco....Friday, November 16, 2018 from Bored Panda
We all know the dangers of smoking cigarettes these days, and we don't condone it. However the 1950's were a different time, where the advertising and cultural pressure to smoke were strong. Smoking was seen as the epitome of cool and...Friday, November 16, 2018 from It's Nice That
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The real world rarely asks you to make art from found garbage. The post The Difference Between Art School and the Real World appeared first on Hyperallergic .Friday, November 16, 2018 from Cool Hunting
Traversing the new and Old Town for whisky, ales and more Whisky and Edinburgh are intertwined like a Celtic knot, with the amber liquid a bloodline for this small city born on the curve of a dead volcano. It’s not just scotch, of...Friday, November 16, 2018 from NYT > Arts
The actor on the gay icon in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” his unreleased Woody Allen film and the mixed blessing of looking like Jude Law.