Music and Performance Arts
Our guides bring you up-to-date information on Music and Performance Arts. Performing arts include the acrobatics, busking, comedy, dance, magic, music, opera, film, juggling, marching arts, such as brass bands, theatre, and circus arts. Artists who participate in these arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers.
There are two schools of thought about Palaeolithic cave paintings made by our ancestors: Those who seek to explain them and those who don’t. Iegor Reznikoff, a Professor of Philosophy who specializes in acoustics at the University of Paris X at Nanterre, is an academic w..
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Fake Crystal Skulls Lots of news this week in the world of fake art. Three museums announced that their Aztec crystal skulls are fake. The Quai Branley Museum in Paris announced the news about their fake crystal skull less than three months ago. Fake ..
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New Music on MySpaceOK, I’ll admit it. I am perhaps a bit too old to be cruising MySpace, but this social networking web site also offers a way of searching for new music. How did I find the bands below? I started by going to some pages of bands I knew and liked and then sampled some ..
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Who Is George Tooker?George Tooker is an American artist who joins the ranks of Norman Rockwell, MC Escher and Salvador Dali—they are all famous artists who are generally ignored in art history classes, perhaps because their work is perceived as more illustrative and less Fine Art. Ma..
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After High SchoolMany high school students looking into college are focused on the notion of pursuing the vocation which will earn them the most money. Starting a career path to becoming a doctor or lawyer is a traditional and sure-fire way of ensuring that you will have a professiona..
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Fabulous and famed fine-art objects, the Fabergé egg will soon be making a comeback thanks to a new licensing agreement that will allow new egg creations. Fabergé originally started in Russia by Gustav Fabergé who opened his first jewelry shop in 1842, but..
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Artist Robert RauschenbergAmerican master artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) died on Monday May 12 at the age of 82. Rauschenberg is perhaps best known for his mixed media assemblages from the 1950s that he called “combines”, because the artist utilized two- and three-dimensiona..
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Stylepedia A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks and Conceitsby Steven Heller and Louise Fili with sidebars by Dan Nadel, Published by Chronicle Books, 2006 This beautiful and stylish book from Chronicle Press, Stylepedia is ..
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Iron Man is a movie about the fabulously wealthy weapons manufacturer and inventor extraordinaire Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.), who runs the Stark weapons company that he inherited from his father. While on a sales call in Afghanistan, Tony Stark i..
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It was with great surprise that I opened up a recent New Yorker magazine to find a special offer from MasterCard offering me a commissioned portrait by the famous New York artist and film director Julian Schnabel. This credit card incentive offer was ..
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