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Amadou & Mariam & Friends
Via nytimes.com
Apr 2012
With their new album, Mali’s Amadou & Mariam, the blind husband-and-wife duo, reach out to new audiences, with help from guest artists including Santigold and TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe. They play the Cedar Aug. 7.
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 2012
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.
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DJ Spooky at the Met
Via metmuseum.org
Apr 2012
The Met’s 2012-2013 season has a twist: Its first ever performing artist in residence will be Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, who over the course of a year will perform five times (including a participatory iPad piece), host talks, and more.
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Minister Ndour
Via telegraph.co.uk
Apr 2012
After being disqualified from his own presidential run, singer Youssou Ndour finds himself in politics nonetheless: He’s been named Senegal’s new minister for culture and tourism. The Grammy winner is part of new president Macky Sall’s cabinet.
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Passings: Jim Marshall
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 2012
Dubbed the “Lord of Loud,” the inventor of the ubiquitous Marshall guitar amplifier, Jim Marshall, has died at the age of 88. The “Marshall stack,” first created at the request of The Who’s Pete Townshend, became a defining feature of modern rock ‘n’ roll.
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River Sounds
Via aroomforlondon.co.uk
Apr 2012
Andrew Bird, Laurie Anderson, and Amadou & Mariam are among artists invited to perform in A Room For London, a small “boat” overlooking the Thames. Winning a design contest, Fiona Banner’s proposal is based on the boat Joseph Conrad captained in the Congo in 1890.
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Arts Ed Alert
Via ed.gov
Apr 2012
Arts education in US public schools has taken a hit over the past decade, according to a Department of Education report released Monday: While 20 percent of primary and secondary schools offered drama or dance 10 years ago, only 3 or 4 percent do today.
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Aitken’s SONG 1
Via hirshhorn.si.edu
Mar 2012
Following Sleepwalkers, a 2007 projection on MoMA’s exterior, Doug Aitken presents SONG 1 today through May 13 on the facade of the Hirshhorn. A “reflection of contemporary reality,” it features Tilda Swinton, Devendra Banhart, and X, among others.
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Shape-Note Singing
Via minnesotamonthly.com
Mar 2012
When his 802 Tour comes to the Walker this weekend, composer Nico Muhly will “do musical violence” to shape-note singing, a notation for communal singing that he calls “an incredibly old-fashioned way to think about how music works.”