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    Lorde Plays the Seductress in New Disclosure ‘Magnets’ Video (watch!)

    Lorde, the wildly popular New Zealand singer, has ditched her androgynous clothes for a slinky gown to play the seductress in a new video by English electronic music duo Disclosure. Same voice, same style, but totally different look. The video ends, however, with a decided twist that meshes completely with Lorde’s ball busting feminism....
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    Art Museums Create Plan to Safe Harbor Art Objects Threatened by War

    Art museums under the auspices of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) have created a plan to safeguard rare art and antiquities that are threatened with destruction in war zones. The move was prompted by attacks on ancient, historic sites in the Middle East. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City joined arts organizations around the world in February to universally condemn the destruction of priceless antiquities by Islamic extremists in the Iraq city of Mosul....
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    Van Gogh, Gauguin, Chagall Headline Rare Phillips Collection Show (photos!)

    Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Marc Chagall, and their works will be combined in a new exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., bringing together works assembled by two noted Swiss collectors for the first and only time in the United States. The Phillips will exhibit more than 60 celebrated masterpieces by titans of the modern art movement. All were created during the mid-19th and 20th centuries....
    Lee Woodruff and husband Bob Woodruff hosted the Hamptons Stands for Heroes event at the home of Joan and George Hornig. (Photo by Lenny Stucker)

    Hamptons Stands for Heroes Honors Bob, Lee Woodruff Foundation

    Bob Woodruff and wife Lee Woodruff hosted the Hamptons Stands for Heroes event to celebrate the work of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, which helps war veterans make a smooth transition when they return home. The event was held Friday (Aug. 28) at the home of Joan and George Hornig, Chief Operating Officer of Pine Bridge Investments and a co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Company....
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    Justin Bieber’s Just Gotta Ask: ‘What Do You Mean?’ in New Song (listen!)

    Justin Bieber has released a new single that he says points to a new direction in is music. A lyric video for the song “What Do You Mean?” is going viral and hopefully will help jump-start his stalled career. Bieber talked about his music today in a radio interview with Elvis Duran on his Z100 radio broadcast, “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.”...
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    Taylor Swift Mixes It Up with Little Mix at Santa Clara Show (watch!)

    Taylor Swift shared the stage at her Santa Clara, Calif., show with English girl group Little Mix, and turned over the stage, so could perform their new single “Black Magic.” Taylor sang and shimmied along. Swift has featured a number of groups, including Fifth Harmony, on the latest leg of her 1989 tour. The all-girl band, made up by Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson share something in common with boy band One Direction....
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    Bobby Whitlock Talks Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Rock’s Golden Era

    The number one issue interviewing a rock-legend like Bobby Whitlock is where to begin. Whitlock was an important player with such noted groups and musicians as Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Derek & The Dominoes during the ’60s and ’70s. Whitlock is still going strong at 67. He’ll hit the road in September with wife CoCo Carmel on their “The Just Us Tour 2015,” featuring 11 all-acoustic shows....
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    One Direction Drops ‘Drag Me Down’ From Upcoming Album (listen!)

    One Direction, or what’s left of the boy band, dropped a new song out of the blue called “Drag Me Down.” Is it a veiled reference to departed member Zayn Malik? Tabloids are sure to play it that way. Band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Thomlinson announced the news in a Twitter blitz....
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    Boy George, Culture Club Preview New Songs at NYC Show (Video!)

    With visions of London’s King’s Road circa 1985 in my mind, I witnessed Culture Club’s return to New York City at The Beacon Theatre. Despite some rough patches, the re-formed bunch kicked off with my personal favorite, “Church of then Poisoned Mind” and took off from there. The Club also played some new songs, destined to end up on their next album, Tribes, due out next year. The most impressive of the lot was “More Than Silence.,”...