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Book World: Louise Gluck's 'Poems 1962-2012' Dec 27th 2012, 23:00 Six hundred and thirty-four pages, just shy of three pounds: a life in letters. No, more essential than that: Louise Gluck's "Poems 1962-2012" is weighted with the dark matter of the human universe, invisible in our everyday interactions but at the core of our conscious experience. Though Gluck lays bare the most intimate moments of longing and loss, these poems are not what we think of as confessional. They are more like the record of a shipwreck survivor trying to come to terms with the strain of isolation and the stark horizon of her island. Language is the castaway's only refuge. Read full article >> Porter Robinson and Echostage represent the rise of EDM in 2012 Dec 27th 2012, 21:45 They came here to dance to big sounds, deep into the tiny hours. So they peel off their bulky winter jackets at the coat check like 2,000 Clark Kents and stride onto the dance floor, faces fixed with sequins, ears pierced with golf tees, garments aglow with chemiluminescent piping. Read full article >> What are we losing in the Web's images of suffering and schadenfreude? Dec 27th 2012, 19:04 The picture arrived on the front page of the New York Post, ignited a firestorm of controversy and then faded within the usual two to three news cycles. It showed a dark-haired man in a light-green jacket, standing on the New York City subway tracks as a Q train approached. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die," read the headline, making it dreadfully clear that this was an image of death in action. Read full article >> From 'Anna Karenina,' lessons for the ballet world Dec 27th 2012, 18:56 For a movie, the Joe Wright-Tom Stoppard "Anna Karenina" is a pretty terrific play. In fact, this exquisite film makes a powerful case for live physical theater. Not only that, but there are lessons for the ballet world to be found in the stylized cinematic storytelling carried out by director Wright, playwright Stoppard (who adapted Tolstoy's panoramic novel for the big screen) and experimental choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Read full article >> Head of National Endowment for the Arts gets mostly rave reviews as he exits the stage Dec 27th 2012, 18:49 Rocco Landesman began his tenure in 2009 as head of the National Endowment for the Arts with money on his mind. After a successful career as a theater owner and Broadway producer, he made increased funding for the nation's largest arts grantmaking organization a top priority — along with restoring individual artist awards. That program was killed in the mid-1990s after a barrage of conservative criticism halved the agency's budget, and was nearly its undoing. It had been a slow, careful crawl back and Landesman, 65 — a country music aficionado, gambler, Yale drama school Ph.D., and minor-league baseball owner (named Rocco!) — was to herald a bold new era of agency expansion. Read full article >> Why Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' continues to inspire Dec 27th 2012, 18:41 Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as "The Four Seasons" — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even be his best concertos, but they're ubiquitous. Even if you don't know classical music, or think you know them, you've heard "The Four Seasons" — in movie soundtracks, on TV ads or playing on Muzak loops. Read full article >> Production firms stir suspicion among networks, would-be clients Dec 27th 2012, 03:13 The offer was enticing to high school principal Kathleen Mahar. The producer of a TV program called "In Focus" said he wanted to feature her school, Archbishop Spalding High in Anne Arundel County, in a short segment about stellar educational institutions. The program, he told her last month, would be hosted by actor Martin Sheen and shown on PBS stations. Read full article >>

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