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Le Petit Prince
Via thestranger.com
Apr 2012
Almost as unique as Prince’s music is the Minneapolis native’s couture: frilly tops, paisley jackets, ruffled collars. Each of these details is exactingly recreated in miniature by Troy Gua, whose Thunderbirds-esque dolls even include cashmere-fluff chest hair.
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Cat Break
Via coryarcangel.com
Apr 2012
In a tribute to Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, artist Cory Arcangel recreated the 1909 piece Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11—widely considered the first “atonal” piece of music composed—using only clips from YouTube cat videos.
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Dylan’s Distinction
Via whitehouse.gov
Apr 2012
Minnesota native Bob Dylan is receiving a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Named with Toni Morrison, labor activist Dolores Huerta and 10 others, his five-decade career and “influence on the civil rights movement” were noted by the White House.
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City Tastemakers
Via theatlanticcities.com
Apr 2012
A new University College Dublin study tracked last.fm data to find out which cities have the biggest impact on our musical tastes. While Minneapolis is among the top 20 influencing cities, Atlanta is tops overall and in hip hop; Montreal leads in indie.
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Art & Revolution
Via art21.org
Apr 2012
In the Arab Spring, “art, music and performance fueled revolution by giving the disenfranchised—the outsiders, the rebels, the refugees, the critics—a second draft to rewrite their country’s cultural memory,” Safa Samiezade’-Yazd writes.
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Record Store Day
Via recordstoreday.com
Apr 2012
Saturday is Record Store Day, a celebration of the more than 700 independently owned bricks-and-mortar records stores across the US. A great chance to buy locally—and get the raw materials to make your own Christian Marclay-style album-art collage.
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Duke Artists Named
Via ddpaa.org
Apr 2012
Among the first class of Doris Duke Artists, who’ll receive multi-year cash grants of $225,000, are Walker friends Anne Bogart, Bill Frisell, Vijay Iyer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Young Jean Lee, Eiko Otake, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Sarah Michelson, and others.
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Craig Finn, Esq.
Via esquire.com
Apr 2012
Craig Finn, who headlines Rock the Garden with the Hold Steady, got dudded up in the desert for a photoshoot as part of the Esquire Songwriting Challenge, in which he and four others each wrote a song, on the spot, inspired by the phrase “Pacific Standard Time.”
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Clinton on Arts Ed
Via baxterbulletin.com
Apr 2012
“If I had not been in a school music program, I would never have been elected president,” Bill Clinton said Tuesday. “It taught me discipline and order. It made me listen better. And once I got into jazz, I realized you had to make some things up along the way…”