New Duo Fiddle Album "The Snake"

New Duo Fiddle Album "The Snake"

Brittany Haas and Lena Jonsson – two of the world's most sought after and buzzworthy fiddlers and composers – have announced their first duo album in nearly ten years, The Snake (out June 28 on Padiddle Records). The project follows the pair of innovative and emotive instrumentalists on a winding journey through 12 joyful and bold tunes (including 9 originals) which were written and recorded in East Nashville over two weeks in March 2023. Since their self-titled 2015 recording, they each have worked and toured with an array of critically-acclaimed acts – Hawktail, Punch Brothers, The Goodbye Girls, Lena Jonsson Trio, and many more – honing their writing, arranging, and playing skills and sharpening their points of view.

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4th book of poems just out from Graywolf Press, 7 May 2024 pub date

4th book of poems just out from Graywolf Press, 7 May 2024 pub date

Catherine Barnett's fourth collection of poems, SOLUTIONS FOR THE PROBLEM OF BODIES IN SPACE, will be published May 7th, 2024. Here's an excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review: "The stunning latest from Barnett (Human Hours) blends the witty and the philosophical to offer a study in “restricted fragile materials,” or the bewildering condition of being alive...

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Eleanor Oakes mounts 'love's labor' exhibition in Detroit, MI

Eleanor Oakes mounts 'love's labor' exhibition in Detroit, MI

Eleanor Oakes '07 recently mounted "love’s labor" a collaborative exhibition that partners with forty mothers in the Metro Detroit Area to create a contemporary portrait of early motherhood that reflects on nourishment, bodily memory as transferred through ancestry, and society’s reliance on the unsupported labor of parenting.

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Bulgarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Bulgarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Princeton graduate student Julian Chehirian is representing Bulgaria at the 60th Venice Biennale. The Bulgarian Pavilion, on view through Nov. 24, will take visitors inside a chapter of Bulgarian history that has been largely absent from textbooks, museums and public debate — the forced labor and political violence in the Bulgarian gulag under Communist rule from post-WWII through the late 1980s before the fall of the Soviet Union.

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