“Baryshnikov’s first two purchases set a course for his collecting, which has tended toward small, elegant pieces, often with some connection to the world of the theatre, easily transportable, intimate in scale.”
Month: January 2013
Actors Who Won’t – Or Can’t – Act As We Assume They Should
“Consider, for example, the close-attention-demanding ensemble that animated the Australian-born Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, in which most of the cast members had ‘intellectual disabilities.’ Or the Israeli troupe of blind-and-deaf performers in Not by Bread Alone. Or the actors who chose to act badly in Inflatable Frankenstein and Seagull (Thinking of you).”
The Never-Before-Told Story Of The World’s First Computer Art
“During a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government-defense budget to finance it, a young man used a $238 million military computer, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a curvy woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen.”
Walk This Way: You Are Your Gait
“Since society abandoned walking en masse for riding in upholstered comfort atop a metal box harnessed to a series of small explosions, we hardly pay attention to how we walk. But … researchers are increasingly convinced that how we walk can identify us as unique individuals, much like a fingerprint or retina scan.”
Benjamin Millepied On Leaving His LA Dance Project For Paris Opera Ballet
“In no way is it something I want to abandon. I think it is important to follow through with it,” says the new company’s founder, who expects to hand it over to another choreographer. Says a producer for LADP, “This was never meant to be ‘his’ company,”
Now You Can Read The Lost Original Ending Of The Shining
“Back on May 23, 1980, when The Shining was first released, audiences saw something slightly different from what viewers obsess over today. That’s because the next weekend Stanley Kubrick did an unusual thing: He re-cut the film, removing about two minutes from the ending, even though it was already in release.”
Revisiting Australia’s Cinematic New Wave
“[There was a period] when new waves were all the rage in film, from French to Czech to American. The Australian reawakening came at the end of that stretch, and for a cohort of American filmgoers who are now in their 40s and early 50s it was the first of those national flowerings that could be experienced in real time.”
New York Philharmonic To Launch New-Music Biennial
The orchestra “has notions to do for classical music what the Venice Biennale and Art Basel Miami Beach have done for art.” Philharmonic officials describe the ten-day event, to begin in May-June 2014, as “a veritable playground of new and recent music from around the world.”
Johnny Cash’s Prison Reform Crusade
“Cash’s famous live albums recorded at Folsom Prison and San Quentin are the stuff of music legend … But it’s much less well-known that these were only two of many prison concerts Cash played over the course of almost 30 years … for inmates all over the US, always unpaid, and in the process, [he] became a passionate and vocal spokesman for prisoners’ rights.”
US Federal Agents Seize Funds From Book About Ugandan Warlord
Freelance reporter David Axe and artist Tim Hamilton wrote a graphic novel titled Army of God about the notoriously vicious Joseph Kony. Last month, “the federal office of Foreign Assets Control confiscated the majority of Army of God‘s advance payment, claiming it was being used to fund a terrorist organization.”