Under the Great Dance Umbrella

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WHEN THAT TRANSLUCENT WHITE umbrella floats on stage during Alvin Ailey’s masterwork “Revelations” during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s return to the Society for the Performing Arts Jones’ Hall stage on March 2–4, it will be a historic occasion. [...]
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Signs of Power

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THIS SPRING, THE CONTEMPORARY Arts Museum Houston hosts the nationally touring exhibition “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973- 1991” on view until April 15. Helaine Posner, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator/deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art [...]
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artiFACTS: February 2012

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AURORA PICTURE SHOW HAS received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation to attend the Arthouse Convergence, an annual gathering of art house operators and industry leaders to get together and share successes and challenges of running independent cinemas, that is presented in collaboration [...]
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Photography Books: Snap Shots of Life

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“Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs” TASCHEN, June 2011 In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River [...]
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

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THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM Noel Daniel, TASCHEN, 2011 Art and architecture (and sex) publisher TASCHEN is making a foray into children’s literature with the upcoming publication of “The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” this fall. While many discriminating readers today lament the “Disneyfication” of [...]
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