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ARTIST Hector Tjupuru Burton, winner of the 2014 Red Ochre award, will use his $50,000 prize to continue an art project. ...

Dance is an oral tradition, and stories are passed from one generation to the next at the School of American Ballet, established by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in 1934. ...

Jonathan Stafford, a principal with New York City Ballet, bade farewell on Sunday in George Balanchine’s classic “Jewels.” ...

In “Diary of an Image by DD Dorvillier,” Ms. Dorvillier is honoring those who have influenced her, with a lineup of solos they’ve created and performed. ...

The Skirts and Swords gang are back with a wonderful cosplay collaboration! Inspired by the Gotham Bunnies work of Milkydayy (Oskar Vega) , here are the Arkham Bunnies, photographed by Greg de Stefano ! And they look amazing! Read more... ...

Recently these young teachers took part in a workshop designed especially for new teachers to develop their skills and teaching techniques. These enthusiastic young ladies embraced new dance teaching methods, strengthening, stretching, ballet, hip hop, physie positions, marching, class management and much more in a jam-packed day of physie and fun. Most importantly they learned how […]...

May 26, 2014 / Photography News / Guyanese around the world celebrate the 48th Independence Day anniversary today, 26 May 2014. Guyana has been a former colony of the Dutch, and for over 200 years of the British. It achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966 and became a Republic on 23 February 1970. To understand this day's significance, we invite you to take a look back into Guyana's...

Freedom is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. It seems everywhere in this grand world of ours, freedom and its basic concepts are being used to claim what is rightfully ours and fight oppression. To me personally, freedom finds its deepest meaning in Albert Camus' words: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."...

From personal jetpacks to a permanent colony on Mars, things that were once squarely in the realm of science fiction seem to be on the way to becoming scientific fact. What do kids make of all the progress? Are they upbeat on the changes? Or wary? To find out NASA's Langley Research Center recently hosted "The Future Is Now," an art contest for students ranging from kindergarteners to 12th graders....

The relationship between a combat dog and their Marine handler is forged on the battle lines, but often extends far beyond the end of military service. In the June issue of National Geographic magazine , reporter Michael Paterniti and photographer Adam Ferguson document the incredible bond between these partners. In a moving series of portraits from military bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan, they...

This was really a self-serving art project. A Norwegian artist claims to have consumed the meat off of his own hip bone , and he says it tasted like "wild sheep," according to The Local. Alexander Selvik Wengshoel, 25, was born with a hip deformity and had to have an operation to replace one of his hips. He filmed the operation and displayed the removed hip bone at his graduation show at the Tromso...

As America marks Memorial Day, we take a look inside the lives of U.S. service members deployed across Afghanistan. In Afghanistan: On The Bounce, writer Steven Hartov and photographer Robert Cunningham follow American units from their deployment to the war-torn country until their heartfelt return to the United States. Cunningham left for Afghanistan in 2011 and while in the country, he embedded with...

THE ESSENTIAL STRAIGHT & NARROW ** 1/2 out of **** THE NEW OHIO THEATRE Theater company The Mad Ones deliver an intriguing, well-acted new play that confirms that if they're crazy, it's crazy like a fox. Most of the play is set in a blandly depressing hotel room in the 1970s (I think). Slowly we suss out that a group of country artists have been stranded in a small town (broken axle) and have several...

Lana Del Rey celebrated Memorial Day weekend by releasing a new song. Called "Shades of Cool," Del Rey's latest track is basically the best Bond theme that never was. Listen below, then resume barbecuing. Del Rey's new album, "Ultraviolence," is out in June. ...

Perhaps critics and audiences have come to an agreement on Adam Sandler movies? "Blended," which was savaged in reviews -- New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote that it will make children "stupid" -- was also largely ignored by audiences. The family comedy, which was rated PG-13, earned an estimated $18.2 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, and $14.2 million during the traditional three-day...

The first conversation Aaron Hughes and I had about art and war was around seven years ago -- about the modern dance class at Tufts University, of all things. Many classes were being cancelled for something called Walkout on War Day to protest the war in Iraq, and after much discussion about how, or if, to respond, the students decided to make a dance about war. So on one of those gentle, spring days...

"I once was seriously considering taking on a young artist who sent me follow-up material claiming to have shown at the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney" and other major museums, said Louis Newman, director of New York's David J. Findlay Fine Art gallery. "When I called to express my astonishment that he did not tell me to begin with about these impressive credentials, he revealed that he actually...

Yahoo! Summer has unofficially started with this Memorial Day. So many of us will be BBQing with family and friends. While everyone else is burning up over the grill, you can stay nice and cool while slurping your homemade Gazpacho. Claraohara shares this yummy recipe and even gives added tips for making it the best [...]...

Tracey Emin’s My Bed, a sordid recreation of the site of a three-day breakdown and one of Britain’s most polarising pieces of modern art, is to be sold on auction this summer, it has been reported. ...

Quilting artist Luke Haynes shared this unique perspective on self-portraiture with this amazing anamorphic quilt called, "Out There." Read more on MAKE ...