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Taliesen Truth
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Dec 2011
Bruce Beresford’s forthcoming film, Taliesen, named after Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin home, won’t “whitewash him into some sort of saint.” That is, it’ll likely cover the 1914 murder of his mistress, her children and two others there.
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Von Trier Cleared
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Dec 2011
Charges against filmmaker Lars Von Trier over bizarre references he made to Nazism at Cannes 2011 have been dropped. “There was no intention on the part of Mr. Von Trier to commit the act of ‘justifying war crimes,’” a French prosecutor said.
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Ai Weiwei at Sundance
via aiweiweifilm.org
Dec 2011
After three years in development, Alison Klayman’s documentary film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, will finally reach audiences — at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in late January.
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AIDS, Rage & Compassion
via nytimes.com
Nov 2011
“Declarations both outrageous and outraged abound” in Jim Hodges’ World AIDS Day film, which screens December 1 at the Walker, “but so do expressions of compassion as people come to terms with their losses,” writes Linda Yablonsky.
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HIDE/SEEK Revisited
via washingtonpost.com
Nov 2011
A year later, Philip Kennicott looks at the decision by Smithsonian secretary G. Wayne Clough to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz from the HIDE/SEEK exhibition, calling it “a dark day for the Smithsonian” and “a successful, coordinated attack on free speech.”
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Art Works in Minnesota
via nea.gov
Oct 2011
A new NEA survey finds there of 2.1 million artists in the U.S. workforce, some 42,000 living here in the Land o’ Lakes. Other findings: Minnesota leads the nation in the concentration of jobs in book publishing, and the Twin Cities’ concentration of theater jobs is twice the national average.