The New York Times – Music:
By reducing the National Endowment for the Arts’s focus on avant-garde work, he eased conservative anger and won increased funding.
Category: Culture (Arts)
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With New Condé Nast Galleries, the Met Museum Gets Fashion Forward
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The Costume Institute is bringing its annual blockbuster show to a permanent home off the Grand Hall, due in part to Anna Wintour’s efforts to get “out of the basement.”
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Movement Directors Are the Secret Ingredient to Movies and Runway Shows
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The way an actor physically inhabits a character? A model’s distinctive runway walk? Credit a movement director, who can make an ad, movie scene or fashion show feel intensely alive.
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What Is the Human Cost of Haute Couture?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
“Lacrima,” a play from the French playwright and director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, explores the hidden stories woven into luxury fashion.
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Gilles Larrain, Photographer of 1970s Drag Culture, Dies at 86
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
He shot portraits of stars like John Lennon and Miles Davis. But he is best remembered for “Idols,” an intimate look at a vital New York underground.
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Looking for a Day Trip From Paris? Try Lens.
The New York Times – Travel:
The city, once a mining center, has an outpost of the Louvre that claims “the architectural creativity of the Guggenheim and a collection worthy of the Met.” It’s an easy train ride from Paris.
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Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92
The New York Times – Film:
Using found footage and toying with dimensions (2-D could seem like dazzling 3-D), he sought to explode cinema’s traditional boundaries.
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Organizations in 5 Boroughs Get a Boost With City Funds
The New York Times – Music:
BRIC, the Noble Maritime Collection, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the Bronx Children’s Museum and the Louis Armstrong House Museum get a permanent investment.