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Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? NY Times Critics Discuss
A.O. Scott: “The nominations are a numbers game, and in each case you can offer a nonracial explanation for the oversight. Other movies and actors just had a few more votes.” Wesley Morris: “But I also...
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Trisha Brown’s Company, Without Trisha Brown
“For dance companies that seek to exist beyond their founding choreographer, there is the inevitable conundrum. How does a company exist without new works? The Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded...
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Why Do We Keep Describing Early-Music Voices As ‘Pure’?
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim: “Where does this emphasis on purity come from? What does it mean to singers and conductors? And to writers: As a critic who is compelled to use metaphors to describe the...
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Broadway Ticket Holders Kept From The Room Where It Happens By Blizzard
“This weekend’s closings were striking for their last-minute nature — at the Metropolitan Opera, audiences were already in their seats for Puccini’s ‘La Bohème,’ while on Broadway, actors were...
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A House Of Respite And Inspiration For Young Artists
“Stephanie Littlejohn, whose grandchildren are dancing in an impromptu talent show, says the block still has plenty of crime, prostitution and drug dealing — but German’s presence has changed its tone.”
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The Philly Art Museum Steps During #Blizzard2016
It wasn’t just sledding: “Early Sunday morning, the Action Cam caught a pair of ATVs riding down the steps.”
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FIVE PICKS: Stories From This Week’s ArtsJournal Welcome to our weekly “best of” ArtsJournal. These aren’t necessarily the most important of the 156 stories we found, these particularly caught our eye....
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The Subversive Awesomeness Of ‘Fancasting’ Movies And TV Shows
“In fancasting, imagination is alive and well. In fact, that’s all it is: fans imagine their dream cast for the movie version of some media they love—think comics, books, video games, etc.—on social...
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Can This Theatre Be Saved?
If the idealistic side can come up with $5 million in the next few days, maybe.
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What ‘Maverick’ Architects Do (And Why We Don’t Have More Of Them)
“Is there no architecture that can bare its soul without simultaneously crushing you with its ego, that stirs, moves, troubles, provokes, inspires? And is there no way of being controlled and...
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The Experience Of Being Featured On ‘Humans Of New York’
“He was super nice, full of energy, and took two to three pictures of us before handing us his card. It all took less than five minutes. We thanked him and continued on our walk as if nothing happened....
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Broadway Went Dark, But (The First) BroadwayCon Kept Rolling Along
“Despite the massive storm that shut down Broadway on Saturday and forced the cancellations of appearances by several high-profile celebrities at BroadwayCon, including the actors Darren Criss and...
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What’s Up With The Philadelphia Orchestra And Yannick Nézet-Séguin?
“What I’m most convinced about is that we need to do things more than once to create new traditions, new expectations, new habits, and we can’t backtrack if something isn’t on the box office level we...
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Amazon Beats Movie Companies In Bidding War At Sundance
“Amazon will bring on a theatrical distributor and many suitors are circling. The move follows a trend this Sundance of streamers stepping up with huge offers and outbidding traditional theatrical...
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Banksy’s Newest Work: A Protest Of France, On The French Embassy In London
“The artwork, which depicts a young girl from the film and musical Les Misérables with tears in her eyes as CS gas billows towards her, appeared overnight on Saturday. In a first for the elusive...
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Should Public Transit Pay Pacific Northwest Ballet School To Relocate?
“The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Eastside school features studios framed in soaring glass and steel, ‘floating’ floors to absorb dancers’ leaps and pirouettes, expanses of mirrors, and barres to give...
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Opera: Not Snobby, Not Elitist, Not Expensive (Says Comedian)
Chris Addison: “It seems mental to me. … People imagine it is all dickie bows. I have seen great stuff here; paid £6 and sat at the back. True, there are top price tickets I would never buy, but there...
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Shouting “Kill The Playwright” In A Crowded Theatre
In which one unhappy patron, while his fellows are applauding, calls out, “Booooo! Kill the playwright!”, and another patron – herself a playwright – takes umbrage: “I imagined myself confronting the...
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Does A Writer Have A Responsibility To Anything Other Than Her Art (Like...
Zoë Heller: “The belief that artists are entitled to be morally careless – that great art excuses everything – has proved to be one of the more tenacious parts of our Romantic inheritance.” Francine...
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Oscar Voter Says Academy’s Diversity Push Is “Insulting” To Black People
“What bothers me most is how insulting this is to black people. I’m also shocked at the presumption of the president of the Academy to meet with David Oyelowo to explain to him “what went wrong”...
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