David Galenson: Keith Haring: Rebel with Many Causes

In elementary school in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in the 1960s, Keith Haring wrote a penmanship assignment titled "When I Grow Up": When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France. The reason is because I like to draw. I would get my money from the pictures I would sell. I hope I will be one.When he came of age...

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LOOK: The 10 The Best Places For Families To Live

If you listen to real estate experts, 2013 is an excellent time to buy a house. As a parent, that means considering not only where you want to live, but what kind of schools are in the area. Unfortunately, real estate listings rarely rarely inform prospective buyers about school district pros and cons. With this in...

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'Scandal' Goes Live!

LOS ANGELES — Forget the DVR. Not this time. Not after this long of a wait. Millions of fans actually watched the season-two finale of the ABC drama "Scandal" the old-fashioned way: on a TV screen, as it was fed from the network to their local affiliates. But a crowd of approximately 700 at the Academy of Television...

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Bean-counters will never understand the transcendent value of art or religion | Giles Fraser

"In a situation where miserable reality can be changed only through economic growth, the concern with aesthetics demands justification." These are very nearly the first words of The Aesthetic Dimension, Herbert Marcuse's 1978 critique of Marxist aesthetics. Except Marcuse spoke of "radical political praxis", not...

guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)

Siege, Native American Festival set for Sycamore Shoals

ELIZABETHTON – Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area will be hosting two large festivals in the next few weeks. Each festival celebrates life in this area more than 200 years ago, but from two different perspectives. This weekend, the park celebrates its annual commemoration of the Siege of Fort Watauga, when the...

johnsoncitypress.com (4 days ago)

Central Middle School dropping Spanish from core curriculum

Spanish will become elective, replaced by Language ArtsStarting this fall, Central Middle School will drop Spanish from its core group of classes for seventh- and eighth-graders and replace the subject with a language arts offering.    

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Bazaar returns to MainStrasse May 26

The rebranded Fourth Sunday MainStrasse Antiques Etc., now the Village Vintage and Arts Bazaar, kicked off in April, and the next Bazaar will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, May 26.

cincinnati.com (4 days ago)

Bangor’s Marcus Davis hopes to counter opponent’s height, reach advantage in Lewiston MMA main event

LEWISTON, Maine - The biggest night - and late afternoon - in the brief history of mixed martial arts in the state is set for Saturday at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, where NEF VII will feature more than 60 professional and amateur fighters. Nine pro bouts and 23 amateur contests ...

bangordailynews.com (5 days ago)

Watergate: When Congress Worked

With its Beaux Arts design, inlaid floors of veined black marble, and Corinthian columns, the Kennedy Cau-cus Room is among the most imposing sites on Capitol Hill. But it seemed even more august on June 25, 1973, when it was still called the Senate Caucus Room. That was the day the Senate Select Committee on...

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Selfish Giant director becomes toast of Cannes

There may be no British film in the main competition for the Palme D'Or this year, but that has not stopped a Yorkshirewoman from becoming the toast of Cannes. Clio Barnard's film The Selfish Giant has already been described as "hauntingly perfect" and "jaggedly moving" by critics as it premieres in the Director's...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Quoted: Bob Dylan lyrics baffle Michael Chabon same as everyone

"How many hours I had devoted to [the idea] that midnight had toes, and that one of them, the big one, had been broken." -- Michael Chabon musing over his years-long misunderstanding that Bob Dylan was singing "far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toe" in "Chimes of Freedom." Yeah -- it's actually...

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Columbia students power this year's Manifest urban arts festival

Starting at noon Friday, Columbia College will shut down a section of Wabash Street in the South Loop for its annual Manifest urban arts festival, the school’s biggest event of the year that will showcase the work of more than 2,000 graduating students until about eight in the evening.

redeyechicago.com (5 days ago)

Bath’s Chocolate Church searches for new leadership after ‘unexpected’ resignation of executive...

BATH, Maine - The “unexpected” departure of Barbara Bowers has the Chocolate Church Arts Center searching for an interim executive director. While the search is ongoing, board President Joe Byrnes will serve temporarily in that capacity. The center, one of the midcoast’s premier performing and visual arts...

bangordailynews.com (5 days ago)

Plans languish for overhaul of NYCs Penn Station

NEW YORK - The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. Pennsylvania Station, a gateway to the nation's biggest city, was designed to accommodate about 200,000 riders a day. Now, it is packed with more than 600,000. At rush...

pottsmerc.com (5 days ago)

Pearl District affordable housing; bee swarm on Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall: Downtown/Northwest...

Also, weather in the context of the J. Peterman catalog; arts tax payment; dinosaur fossil jewelry; New New Old Lompoc; sit-lie legislation; city, county budget agreement; Portland Thorns photos.

oregonlive.com (5 days ago)

UK's climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six

The number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's adaptation to the effects of climate change has been cut from 38 officials to only six, in a sign of how the response to global warming has been rapidly downgraded within Whitehall under the coalition. Adapting to the effects of climate change –...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

United Township H.S. Spring Choir Pops Concert

Press release submitted by United Township High School The United Township High School Fine Arts Department will present the Spring Choir Pops Concert on Thursday, May 23, in the UT Auditorium. The program will begin

qconline.com (5 days ago)

Viewfinder: 15 images from the arts, 17 May 2013

Daft Punk and Cannes Film Festival were among the people and events making the culture news this week.    

telegraph.co.uk (5 days ago)

Mayoral endorsement, car show, track and field, weather: things to know

Julia's picks for the weekend include the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center prom for adults. There will be music, photos and a king and queen.

pennlive.com (5 days ago)

Arts Council to find new Arctic Monkeys in major funding shift that favours rock stars

independent.co.uk (5 days ago)

MMA by numbers: What we've learned from the world of mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts journalist Brad Wharton reports on the latest goings-on in the fast-moving sport of MMA

mirror.co.uk (5 days ago)

EA Isn’t Making Wii U Games: Do You Care?

You’re reading that correctly: Electronic Arts, one of the world’s largest gaming companies with billions in annual revenue, just confirmed that it’s not designing games for Nintendo’s Wii U. Speaking to Kotaku, EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said “We have no games in development for the Wii U currently.” I assume...

time.com (5 days ago)

New music fund set up for artists

The PRS for Music Foundation and the Arts Council England announce a new grant to help new acts.

bbci.co.uk (5 days ago)

Bob Dylan joins US Arts Academy

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is made an honorary member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.

bbci.co.uk (5 days ago)

2013 Cleveland Summer Festival Guide: The top 10 ethnic parties and arts fests

Summer might be a month away, but the sun is already rising on festival season. Here it comes, from the East, with the fourth annual Cleveland Asian Festival. It leads our guide to more than 60 festivals.

cleveland.com (5 days ago)

How do you write about life when it's lived on computers?

We live more and more of our life through the screens of laptops and smartphones, but how do we represent this on the page? In his 2004 novel Eastern Standard Tribe, science fiction author Cory Doctorow explored what it meant to live in a world where our relationships were scattered around the globe, and our lives...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Springfield Twp. arts council wants volunteers

The Springfield Township Arts and Enrichment Council, a nonprofit organization created to plan and provide recreational events in township, is seeking volunteers.

cincinnati.com (5 days ago)

Claremont school district board passes recommendation to offer career technical education course...

CLAREMONT - The Claremont Unified School District passed a recommendation to offer a career technical education course as an optional high school graduation requirement in lieu of visual and performing arts or world language course.

dailybulletin.com (5 days ago)

North Fond du Lac and Van Dyne news & notes

The Horace Mann High School drama class will present 'I Hate Shakespeare!' at 7 p.m. today through May 18 in the Performing Arts Center, 325 McKinley St. Admission costs $3.

fdlreporter.com (5 days ago)

Check out car show, flea market and tribute concert

MAQUOKETA, Iowa -- The Ohnward Fine Arts Center will host its second annual Classic, Rod & Custom Car Show, a flea market and Buddy Holly tribute concert, Saturday, May 18,

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