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Brown to Retire
Via nytimes.com
Dec 2012
Two works to be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music late next month will be choregrapher Trisha Brown’s last. Brown, 76, last performed at the Walker in 2008 as part of a yearlong series of exhibitions and events in her honor.
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SCI-Arc Online
Via mediabistro.com
Dec 2012
Thanks to funding from the Getty and the NEA, the Southern California Institute of Architecture’s Media Archive is now online, featuring 1,000+ hours of architecture/design lectures and events with Frank Gehry, Charles Eames, Zaha Hadid, and others.
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Passings: Oscar Niemeyer
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect behind iconic buildings from Rio’s Sambadrome to the UN secretariat in New York, has died at age 104. The “Picasso of concrete” is best known for his designs for Brasília, the planned city that is his native country’s capital.
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Passings: Dave Brubeck
Via nytimes.com
Dec 2012
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck has died at age 91. His 1959 single “Take Five” was the first million-selling jazz number in history. “One of the reasons I believe in jazz,” he said, “is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.”
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Better Than Fiction
Via bombsite.com
Dec 2012
For her 2011 book It Chooses You, Miranda July interviewed people she met through LA’s Penny Saver, and some of these exchanges inspired scenes in her film The Future. The interactions were better than fiction: “It’s like you’re jealous of real life; it’s so good.”
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Sundance Shorts
Via sundance.org
Dec 2012
Sundance has just announced films in its 2013 program of shorts. Of note: Sirocco by the University of Minnesota’s Hisham Bizri and MCAD professor Tom Schroeder’s Marcel, King of Tervure, which will be screened in our Best Buy Film/Video Bay starting January 2.
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USC/MOCA Partnership
Via latimes.com
Dec 2012
MOCA and USC are reportedly considering a partnership. While talks are preliminary, the pairing of the private university with the financially struggling LA museum could “enhance the missions of both institutions,” says a USC provost.
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Replacing Rocco
Via denverpost.com
Dec 2012
Touting the arts merely as an economic driver is “getting old,” writes Ray Mark Rinaldi on the opportunities in replacing outgoing NEA head Rocco Landesman. “Someone needs to speak up for the arts as simply worthy on their own merit.”
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Art & Privilege
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Turner winner Elizabeth Price says her career would’ve been impossible without education and public funding— both of which are imperiled in the UK. She fears art will become “available only to privileged people, and expressive only of that experience.”