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Lara demonstrating one of her projects
I met with sisters Sarah and Lara Grant of Felted Signal Processing the other week at their Brooklyn apartment. Felted Signal Processing is an ongoing project, which came out of their individual research as graduate students in NYU’s ITP program. Sarah entered the program to further...
24-year-old director Saman Keshavarz has had a lot of success with first times. After scoring big time (YDA, Clio,...
"Each year groups seeking space to build on the Mall [in Washington, D.C.] show up before the [National Capital Planning Commission] … But because there is only so much space and a concern about cluttering the Mall's signature green expanses, the planning commission has to be good at saying no and at offering alternatives."...
"The Carreño Dance Festival, named for ballet dancer José Manuel Carreño, will have two components: master classes and two performances by several guest artists in December, and a monthlong dance workshop next August, which will culminate in four performances."...
L. Subramaniam, 63 and one of the world's top performers of Carnatic (South Indian classical) music, filed charges last month against his maid for stealing money and jewelry from his home. The following day, the maid accused him of sexual harassment....
What do disgraced baseball player Roger Clemens and disgraced "memoirist" James Frey have in common? "[The] charge of illicitly boosting their games by employing prohibited substances (anabolic steroids and fictional experiences, respectively). In other words, these are scandals of ambition. They're about people doing what it takes - or what they believe it takes - to enhance their position in...
"[He] was among the most recognizable faces in Ireland, a result of his years … on the long-running soapy drama Glenroe … Mr. Lally was a theater actor and teacher when he, [Garry] Hynes and the actress Marie Mullen created the Druid in 1975."...
"Charles Saatchi's pledge to donate his gallery and modern art collection to the public is in jeopardy after talks with the Arts Council [England] broke down."...
"My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home. Book making machines exist and they're remarkably sophisticated."...
Athol Fugard has "argued that writers were increasingly being pressured to write for audiences that only had 'attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts'. But do these two elements of politics and entertainment have to be mutually exclusive? Of course not."...