Photo Trickery at National Gallery of Art Exhibit
The National Gallery of Art hosts Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, a 200 image show curated by Mia Fineman. The piece explores pre digital manipulation from 19th century double exposures to surreal composites by Steichen, Maar, and Wulz, with historical novelties and postcards illustrating the era's illusions on view through May 5.
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Washington
Richard Avedon
National Gallery of Art
Mia Fineman
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Diane Waggoner
National Gallery
Boston
Dora Maar
Wanda Wulz
J.C. Higgins and Sons
Yves Klein
Harry Shunk
Jean Kender
Washington, D.C
Auditions for Sweeney Todd at Lawrence Arts Center
Next week end auditions for Lawrence Arts Center October Halloween production Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Slots: 10 11 and noon Saturday at 940 New Hampshire St. Callbacks 2 p.m. Audition info and roles online. Rehearsals start Oct 7 opens Oct 25 for seven shows including Halloween night. Directed by Ric Averill with Free State Liberation Orchestra under Patty Ahern. Musicians call Averill at 843-2787.
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Lawrence Arts Center
Fleet Street
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Arts Center
New Hampshire St
Lawrenceartscenter.org
Sweeney Todd
Ric Averill
Free State Liberation Orchestra
Patty Ahern
Averill
Anti-Thatcher protest song climbs BBC chart
Critics describe the campaign as symbolic protest as the song Ding Dong The Witch is Dead rises to No 1 on British iTunes and enters the BBC chart. The BBC plans a brief extract and context news item amid calls to ban or censor the track near Thatcher’s funeral.
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BBC
London
Margaret Thatcher
David Karpf
Thatcher
Tony Hall
Ben Cooper
Radio 1
Tedesco recalls theater roots and career path in KU family
Kansas University theater and film professor John Gronbeck-Tedesco nicknamed Dad, and his daughter Susan Tedesco, grew up amid film talks at home. She performed with Lawrence groups such as Seem-To-Be Players and Lawrence Community Theatre, studied psychology, and worked varied jobs including waiting tables and a Caribbean yacht stint before pursuing acting on a U S tour with the family troupe. Auditoriums of 2500 kids cheered as she rose in the profession.
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John Gronbeck-Tedesco
Tedesco
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco
Lawrence
Lawrence High School
Lawrence Community Theatre
Elaine
Milton’s
Kansas City
Caribbean
U.S
Canada
Annie Tedesco
Seem-To-Be Players Children’s Theater Company
Granite Flats debuts with sci fi twist on BYUtv
Actress Tedesco leads Granite Flats a family friendly period drama with a sci fi touch premiered April 7 on BYUtv airing Sundays on Dish Network DirecTV and select cable systems. Filmed in Utah the show follows nurse Beth Milligan and her son as they uncover mysteries after moving to a rural town.
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Byutv.org
Tedesco
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Beth
Utah
Swofford
Byutv
Midwest
KU film festival showcases Africa beyond stereotypes
Adeniyi Coker of UMSL leads a KU festival aiming to broaden views of Africa through documentary films. Highlights include I Am Gay and Muslim, Takeo, Mama Africa, War Don Don, Red White Black and Blue, and Dear Mandela. All films will join KU’s film collection for public access in Kansas.
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Adeniyi Coker
UMSL
Ephrem Andemariam
South Africa
Lux
Africa World Documentary Film Festival at Kansas University
The schedule lists daily screenings across Wednesday to Saturday featuring films such as Guerrilla Grannies, Mama Africa, Woodstock in Timbuktu The Art of Resistance, War Don Don, Kinshasa Symphony, The One Who Builds, Takeo A Percussionist with Down Syndrome, Bittersweet, I Am Gay and Muslim, The Thing That Happened, The Lost Boy Home, Wolf Call, David Driskell In Search of the Creative Truth, My Mother's Club, Red White Black and Blue, and Dear Mandela with times ranging from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. on various days.
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Ture
Africa
Andemariam
Morocco
Takeo
Miriam Makeba
Don Don
Sierra Leone
New
Wolf Call
David Driskell
Dear Mandela
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