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Corona Cookbook: Unique Pasta
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Network for New Music Presents Extraordinary Measures
Composer Portrait of Richard Wernick
By: - Jan 11th, 2021Network for New Music gives us a delightful composer portrait of Pulitzer-prize winner Richard Wernick, a native Bostonian. He has studied at Tanglewood, and with Leonard Bernstein. Can you imagine a "Sunken Synagogue" replacing the Ys' cathedral of Debussy?
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Prototype Festival Opens OnLine
Modulation Startles and Stuns
By: - Jan 09th, 2021Undaunted by the constraints of COVID, the Prototype Festival launched its 7th annual event on January 8th. Modulation opened the week of new, streaming works. While the trailer and prologue look like the Hollywood Hills striped with waving geological lines, the three florescent doorways invite entrance to an interior. The inventive work, made up of 13 parts, is divided into three acts, Isolation, Fear and Identity.
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Peri Schwartz: Self Portraits & Studio Paintings
At Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Jan 08th, 2021The exhibition comprises a mix of both studio paintings as well as self portraits dating to the 80s and 90s. The studio paintings reflect Schwartz’s long history of using her space as her subject matter.
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Berkshire Based Blue Heron Gallery Online
Launched January 13 With Work by Galen Cheney
By: - Jan 07th, 2021During the Covid pandemic artists continue to work. Exhibitions, however, have been cancelled. To meet a need Michael McGrath an entrepreneur and designer has created Blue Heron Gallery Online. The Berkshire based site will offer online exhibitions as well as options for a range of services from PDF and print catalogues to promotional and marketing strategies. Visitors to the exhibition have easy access to make "go to cart" purchases. The gallery will launch with an exhibition by Galen Cheney from January 13 through February 12.
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Readers Series Slated
At Ft. Lauderdale's Thinking Cap Theatre
By: - Jan 03rd, 2021Thinking Cap Theatre in Southeast Florida is launching a virtual series in which participants will read plays and then discuss them with artists. The first installment, "Race on the American Stage" kicks off this month. Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview and the multi Tony-nominated Slave Play are among the featured works.
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Sculptor Christopher Sproat
Private Museum in Putney, Vermont
By: - Jan 02nd, 2021After a long and successful career as a sculptor in the tradition of constructivist abstraction Christopher Sproat withdrew from the mainstream art world. On his property in Putney Vermont he has created Black Box a private museum. This legacy project is open to the public by appointment.
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2021
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NY Art Critic Barbara Rose at 84
My Former Editor
By: - Dec 28th, 2020Initially when she married Frank Stella, the critic Barbara Rose embraced minimalism and formalism. She curated, promoted and wrote about an emerging generation of abstract artists, formalists, and women artists starting with Helen Frankenthaler. She could be quirky, wielding power that attracted friends and enemies. We never met or even spoke but she invited me to write for The Arts Newspaper (London and New York) for which she was an editor. She has died at 84.
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Pen/Man/Ship by Christina Anderson
Moliere in the Park Streams Its First Contemporary Play
By: - Dec 27th, 2020Moliere in the Park, with their streaming team Andy Carluccio and Liminal Entertainment Technologies, LLC are presenting Christina Anderson’s pen/man/ship free through January 4th. It is a powerful play set on a boat passage that reverses the more familiar journey of black Africans.
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PBS Louisa May Alcott
More Than Little Women
By: - Dec 27th, 2020Writing to his 'possums" New York critic Fast Eddy was gobsmacked by the PBS documentary of author Louisa May Alcott. "This beautifully acted documentary (Elizabeth Marvel Plays The Mature Louisa) brings back Louisa, her times, her family and her good friends - both gods in my pantheon - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)."
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Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia
Riveting Nine Hour Trilogy of 19th Century Russians
By: - Dec 27th, 2020Recently I had a chance to revisit the most spectacular theater experience I’ve ever had. It took place on a weekend in February 2007. Over the course of two days, I experienced all nine hours of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy on 19th century Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries.
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Rebecca Luker at 59
Thirty-year Broadway Star dies of A.L.S.
By: - Dec 24th, 2020Broadway soprano Rebecca Luker died on Wednesday, Dec. 23 at a Manhattan hospital from A.L.S. Luker received Tony Award nominations for her work in Show Boat, The Music Man, and Mary Poppins. Luker announced in February that doctors diagnosed her with A.L.S. Her last appearance came in June via Zoom.
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Hans Henze's Sailor Betrayed
Simone Young Conducts a Masterpiece at Vienna State Opera
By: - Dec 23rd, 2020The Vienna State Opera has recently streamed their live production of Hans Henze’s The Sea Betrayed, a title translated with the approval of Yukio Mishima, the famed author of the novel on which the opera is based. The opera premiered in Berlin in May of 1990. Audiences in this country were not initially attracted when it was produced the following year by the San Francisco opera. The War Memorial Opera House was half empty. The opera is a masterpiece.
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Seven Deadly Sins
A Safe Outdoor Theatrical Experience in Miami Beach.
By: - Dec 21st, 2020Socially-distanced, mask-clad audience members are taking in 'Seven Deadly Sins,' a production of short plays in Miami Beach. Miami New Drama is staging 'Seven Deadly Sins' live and in person, with COVID safety protocols. 'Seven Deadly Sins' runs through Jan. 17 on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, an outdoor shopping and dining promenade.
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Home for the Holidays
Cooking for Two
By: - Dec 21st, 2020Home alone for the holidays. Decorating and cooking for two.
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David Bowie's Lazarus
2017 London Production to be Live Streamed
By: - Dec 20th, 2020David Bowie's Lazarus. As luck will have it, the London Production, filmed in 2017, is available for streaming from January 8 - January 10.
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Ann Reinking at 71
Late Broadway Star Shone as Roxie Hart in Chicago
By: - Dec 19th, 2020Ann Reinking died in her sleep at age 71. The late Broadway star's extensive work in musical theater included playing Roxie Hart in 'Chicago.' She performed on Broadway for three decades.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Astonishing Netflix Production with Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman
By: - Dec 19th, 2020Previously, Denzel Washington produced and co-starred (with Viola Davis) in August Wilson's "Fences." Now he has produced Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" with the late Chadwick Boseman. Washington plans to film the other eight plays in Wilson's iconic Pittsburgh or Century Cycle. For the decade of the 1920s Wilson took a side trip to Chicago and a recording session with the Mother of the Blues the great Ma Rainey. The best news is that the new release is available to stream on Netflix. The production is destined for a bundle of nominations during awards season.
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Shakespeare & Company Greetings
If music be the food of love, play on
By: - Dec 18th, 2020Holiday greetings from Allyn Burrows the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company. With hope for a New Year and a lively summer season.
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A Year Like No Other, a Holiday Letter
An Artist and Activist Remembers
By: - Dec 18th, 2020A year like no other, let me wish you a warm home, enough to eat, company however virtual and safety from this deadly virus with the good fortune to come through this plague sometime in 2021 or 2022. Thank you for connecting globally on ZOOM, FaceBook + Messenger video calls. Erica H. Adams is a photographer, artist and activist who lives on Cape Cod. We regularly enjoy her social media posts that keep us amused and connected.
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Jacob's Pillow Commitment
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Dec 17th, 2020As an institution that seeks to unite people and communities by celebrating cultural diversity in dance, Jacob’s Pillow has an ongoing responsibility to challenge white supremacy and to disrupt systems of bias and oppression. For the Pillow, this includes bringing under-recognized artists and stories to our stages, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ artists, as well as increasing support to women choreographers and leaders of companies, and ensuring that people of color who have historically had limited or restricted access have robust opportunities to present, study, and develop work.
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Hunt Slonem Reimagines Rabbits
An Artist's Adventures in Wonderland
By: - Dec 17th, 2020For more than five decades artist Hunt Slonem has been painting and reimagining his obsessive motifs: butterflies, birds, bunnies, and portraits of Abraham Lincoln, whom he refers to as his Marilyn. Repetition plays a huge role in his work. Excess and extravagance define his life and art.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
$32.8 Million to Support 213 Projects in 44 States
By: - Dec 16th, 2020The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $32.8 million in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
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Kahlil Gibran for the Holidays
Decorated Sculpture in the South End
By: - Dec 16th, 2020The late Kahlil Gibran created a sculpture for a mini-park in his South End neighborhood. It has been decorated for the holidays with a festive, bright red bow and flowers.
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