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Kulturborse Freiburg, Berlinale 2013, 55th Grammy Awards, Noise Pop Festival, are highlights in February’s Global Media and Entertainment Industry « Global News and Networking Events Covering the Media and Show Business Industry

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

actorschecklist.com - Feb. 05 (Special Report) - The Noise Pop Film Festival in San Francisco screens any kind of film or video narrative feature, documentary, short, animation, experimental or music video, that explores a connection to music, either in its subject matter, the talent behind or in front of the camera, or with an exceptionally prominent soundtrack. Submissions include feature-length documentaries or features that have music or musicians as the subject matter...

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Selections from The Spoken Word

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Smithsonian Magazine - Oct. 29 (Other) - Listen to famous British and American writers talk about their work and their views on culture and society.

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Artists confront Asian-American stereotypes

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By BBC News - Aug. 12 (News Report) - A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington explores the nature of Asian-American identity.

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What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Marty Beckerman - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - If Ernest Hemingway hadn’t killed himself 50 years ago today at age 61, he probably would have died by now anyway. (No human liver could withstand more than a century of nonstop alcoholic pummeling. Not even Papa’s.) But Newsweek can fantasize about Princess Diana cheating death, so we can imagine Hemingway walking — or staggering — among us in 2011. What would the hard-drinking, adventure-loving writer think of our modern technological lifestyle? Not bloody much. We’re obsessed with conquering the digital world — accumulation of Twitter followers, Facebook friends, LinkedIn recommendations — whereas Hemingway conquered the physical world. The thrill of a retweet from Roger Ebert or Ashton Kutcher will never compare to the thrill of running with (more like from) the bulls or fighting a pack of voracious sharks over the remains of a prize-catch marlin.

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Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Alan Duke - Jun. 19 (News Report) - Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.

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This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor - WSJ.com

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Dion Nissenbaum - Jun. 02 (News) - Dressed in a police uniform, Aman Mojadidi once set up a fake roadside checkpoint to hand out real money to befuddled Afghan motorists used to paying, not receiving, bribes. Then, during last fall's parliamentary elections, the Florida-born Afghan artist took his antics a step further by covertly pasting Kabul walls with faux campaign posters that featured him in a black turban with a gold-plated pistol hanging around his neck.

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Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Daoud Tyler-Ameen - May. 28 (News) - The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

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“Making Art In America Is A Political Statement In Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle On Music, Writing and Acting

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 13 (Interview) - Singer-songwriter, actor and author Steve Earle joins us in the studio to talk about his art and perform two songs from his new album, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." He is being awarded an honorary degree today from the City University of New York School of Law. Last year, he was honored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for his years of involvement with the anti-death penalty movement. “Making art in America is a political statement in itself,” Earle says. “I am maybe not so much a political songwriter as I am a political person.”

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Larry Rohter - Apr. 24 (News Report) - The director Werner Herzog remembers being about 12 years old when he saw, and was transfixed by, a picture of a horse on the cover of a book about Paleolithic art, displayed in the window of a bookstore in the isolated Bavarian village where he lived. Ever since, even as he was making films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Nosferatu,” that image “has engaged me and haunted my mind,” he said. “It has never left me.” But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

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ARTINFO: 'Jeff Koons Must Die!!!' & 4 Other Art Video Games You Can Actually Play

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Artinfo - Apr. 23 (News) - In Hunter Jonakin's "Jeff Koons Must Die!!!" the player must destroy the artist's work with a rocket launcher. / Courtesy of the artist With the Smithsonian set to crown video games the latest institutionally-ratified art

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New theatre: A horse that travels well

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Apr. 11 (Review) - FOUR years after it first opened on London’s Southbank, “War Horse” has gone stateside. Based on a children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, the play conveys the chaos and tragedy of the first world war through the experiences of a young English boy and his horse Joey.

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Building a Plastic Bottle School

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NewsHour - Apr. 07 (News) - When former Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner was asked to help find funding to finish constructing two classrooms in the elementary school where she worked in Guatemala, she decided to use -- or rather reuse -- a common piece of trash.

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Master storyteller M.K. Asante keeps it real in the classroom - CNN.com

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Rhythm of life: Career in dance

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf - Apr. 06 (News) - Linda Denise Fisher-Harrell, an assistant professor in the department of dance, said she tries to mimic a professional setting in the Towson University Dance Company as best she can in order to allow students to experience the culture of the dance world, including the possibility of injury. Dance is not only an art, but also [...]

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YouTube Launches Towson Teens' Music Career

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Beauty, Through Pinhole or Plastic

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Gonzalez - Mar. 17 (Review) - Toys? Novelties? Curios? Don't tell that to the customers who line up for Randy Smith's modified Holgas and pinhole cameras.

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JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

TED - Mar. 04 (Speech) - JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.

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Lyric Opera Baltimore announces inaugural season

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Tim Smith - Feb. 14 (News) - Memories of Baltimore Opera's demise might fade soon, if all goes well for Lyric Opera Baltimore, which has gradually emerged, partly from the ashes of the former company, and has just announced a three-production season for 2011-2012.

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Stepping Up

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

LucidPix - By Amanda Lucidon - Feb. 05 (News Report) - Step Afrika, a non-profit dance company, takes time away from its national performance tour to give back to its developing community.

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Operation Storefront aims to fill downtown vacancies and entrepreneurial dreams

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jill Rosen - Feb. 04 (News) - Instead of waiting for another real estate boom that might not arrive, with a little money and some creative thinking, downtown boosters fashioned their own boomlet, encouraging about a dozen dreamers to grab an empty property and start using it — right now.

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Artist portrays Baltimore's degraded harbor

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Feb. 03 (News) - 'Empty Waters' depicts trash, industry on the Patapsco

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Drawing Blood

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Urbanite - By Richard O'Mara - Feb. 01 (News) - These artists sketch and paint to help save human lives. They create images of the organs, the nerves, the architecture inside the human body. by Richard O'Mara Some people make art for its own sake, others for the pleasure of the uplift it gives those who view it. Others, a smaller cadre, sketch and paint to help save human lives.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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Arts Collective Bounces Back From Burglary

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Towson Patch - Jan. 31 (News) -

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Teen explains origins of mystery piano

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Josh Levs - Jan. 27 (News Report) - The mystery surrounding a piano that showed up on a Biscayne Bay sandbar has apparently arrived at a grand conclusion: It was the work of a teenage boy, with a little help from his friends.

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