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npr.org | Olivia Hampton
Within days of George Floyd's 2020 killing by a police officer who kneeled on his neck, Herbert Martin channeled widespread public grief and outrage over the gruesome murder into a text for what became a choral work. "Everybody knew about it and everyone felt overwhelmed by it," the poet said five years after the murder that inspired A Knee on the Neck.
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npr.org | A Martínez |Olivia Hampton
Chloë Sevigny leads a wayward American TV crew in rural Argentina in Amalia Ulman's latest feature film, Magic Farm. Magic Farm hide caption toggle caption Magic Farm In Amalia Ulman's second feature, a New York-based documentary crew uncovers "crazy subcultures" in Latin America for their VICE News-like TV show, think Bolivian teen exorcists. But they get it all wrong, right from the start, in a comedy of errors that plays out as a droll tale of culture shock and appropriation.
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npr.org | Leila Fadel |Olivia Hampton
Ia Sukhitashvili plays Nina, an obstetrician who performs abortions in rural Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Dea Kulumbegashvili's film April. Arseni Khachaturan/Courtesy Metrograph Pictures hide caption toggle caption Arseni Khachaturan/Courtesy Metrograph Pictures Growing up in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains in rural Georgia, Dea Kulumbegashvili was one of the few young women who didn't become a teenage bride and mom.
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npr.org | Olivia Hampton
A decade ago, Amy Sherald was still struggling to make her mark. But even before she was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait, she knew she'd have a major museum retrospective some day, and she came up with its title: American Sublime. That dream has now come true. This week, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first major survey of her work, after the traveling exhibit's first stop at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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2 months ago |
npr.org | Olivia Hampton
Painter Amy Sherald reimagines the 'American sublime' in new showAmy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Thomas Bangalter on how orchestrating brings him “closer to human heartbeats,” interviewed by @AMartinezLA, production magic @bgordemer. Album out @WarnerClassics
Thomas Bangalter, formerly of French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has released a classical music album: the score to a ballet titled Mythologies that draws on American minimalism and Baroque works. https://t.co/Gap3Dz7wpK
Such a delight working on this story with the legendary @SachaPfeiffer. Production 🪄 @bgordemer
Two musical worlds collide as jazz pianist @tepferdan finds inspiration, and room for improvisation, in J.S. Bach’s Two-Part Inventions. https://t.co/lhD9TUZ72e https://t.co/UcUwUESkN8
RT @NPR: Jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer has extracted the framework from J.S. Bach’s Two Part Inventions to guide new improvisations…
