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Sundance 2013: Female directors discuss the challenges they face
PARK CITY, Utah — Hollywood is dominated by men, and so, it turns out, is independent film. As a new study of Sundance Film Festival titles shows, less than a quarter of all American features over the last 10 years at Sundance were directed by...
Tags: Film Festivals, Entertainment, Artists, Blade Runner (movie), Arts and Culture
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'Argo,' 'Lincoln' spare no expense in Oscar best picture race
Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year is the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Ang Lee, DVDs, Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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Depictions of violence in theater: Revelation, not nihilism
In one of the most infamous scenes in modern drama, a group of young men in a London park stone a baby to death in its carriage. What begins as roughhousing escalates to all-out sadism until a rock is thrown at point blank range, ending the child's...
Tags: Poetry, Minsk (Belarus), United Kingdom, Entertainment, Artists
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Richard Jackson wants to make you feel uncomfortable
The sculpture of a giant black Labrador outside the Orange County Museum of Art looks friendly, nose to the sky and tail up. But with a hind leg cocked, "Bad Dog" is designed to spray gallons of yellow paint through a powerful gear pump onto the museum...
Tags: Radio, Rentals, Entertainment, Artists, Gerhard Richter
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Richard Artschwager dies at 89; painter and sculptor
Richard Artschwager, an artist who turned his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker into a distinctive approach to making sculptures and paintings that defy easy categorization, died Saturday in Albany, N.Y., following a brief illness. He was 89. A...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Manufacturing and Engineering, Artists, Arts and Culture, Whitney Museum
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Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Arundel' digitized for online viewing
A notebook from Leonardo da Vinci that contains some of the Renaissance-era thinker's scientific and artistic studies has been digitized by the British Library and is now available for online viewing. The so-called "Codex Arundel" is viewable on the...
Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Libraries
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Getty Research Institute looks at Mexico's Dyn Group
André Breton, the French writer who founded the Surrealist movement in 1924, is widely known to have been a control freak. The so-called Surrealist Pope was happy to anoint and expel followers based on his autocratic judgment of their fealty to what he...
Tags: The Getty, Artists, Arts and Culture, Mexico, Research
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Stuart Freeborn dies at 98; 'Star Wars' makeup artist
It was no accident that British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn resembled his most famous movie creation — Yoda, the wrinkled, ancient sage from the "Star Wars" films. "I looked at myself in the mirror and decided that I was comic, with all these...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Kingdom, Electronics, Artists, Tony Randall
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In hip-hop, violence is taking on a diminishing role
Among the most important rap albums released over the last year or so, one contains a song about Nas' complicated relationship with his teenage daughter. Another has a track in which Killer Mike outlines President Reagan's contribution to the prison-...
Tags: Entertainment, Notorious B.I.G., Chief Keef, Artists, Ice Cube
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Richard Artschwager, celebrated artist, dead at 89
Richard Artschwager, the painter and sculptor who recently was honored with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, died on Saturday at 89. His death was confirmed by the Gagosian Gallery. Artschwager's death comes just a week...
Tags: Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture, Whitney Museum, Museums
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Grammys 2013: A magical year for son jarocho
Last week, a group of Latino and Mexican artists up for three Grammy Awards gathered in a narrow Boyle Heights storefront — mostly in the flesh, some via Skype, a few present in spirit. They'd assembled to honor a strain of regional folk music...
Tags: Entertainment, Artists, Arts and Culture, Ozomatli (music group), Entertainment Events
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Christ on the cross: a violent image as an act of commiseration
No image I know in the history of Western painting is more brutal than the crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece. Its violence would make Quentin Tarantino blush. When German Renaissance artist Matthias Grünewald first set brush to limewood panel...
Tags: Fiction, Baptist, Entertainment, Artists, Arts and Culture
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