On a night when many audience members were delayed in a jam caused by the theatre’s parking lot, the show started on time — and it shouldn’t have. “Unpleasantness prevailed. My blood was boiling. I don’t think I [have] ever come closer to jumping out of my seat and tackling an usher.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Can Music Improve The Results Of Surgery?
“Surgeons have long listened to music while they work…. They say it helps them relax and concentrate. But now [Claudius] Conrad, an accomplished pianist and a senior surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, is scientifically testing how music affects surgeons, their patients, and even relatives in the waiting room.”
This Year’s Turner Shocker Is The Artist’s Subtlety
“Richard Wright’s shimmering wall painting, a luminous expanse of intricately patterned gold-leaf that seems, as you enter the exhibition’s second gallery, almost to float upon its far wall, is the type of artwork that even a traditionalist can admire.”
With Gold-Leaf Fresco, Richard Wright Wins Turner Prize
“By their very nature, his works – which cannot be transported, bought or sold, and which always have a temporary life – exist outside the art market. ‘The most important thing is that the paintings are painted over,’ he has said.”
Foundation Launches $100K Prize For Artists Under 35
“The award, the Future Generation Art Prize, will be given every two years” by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation “and is open to any young artist who applies online. About 100 professionals will also be asked to nominate candidates they think are producing exceptional work.”
Middle East’s Young Directors Catch Hollywood’s Eye
The novice filmmakers, “many of whom grew up in the shadow of civil war and political strife in their native countries, are proving to be comfortable straddling East and West. That fusion is imbuing their filmmaking aesthetic with an often intriguing mix of Arabic subject matter and cultural influences from both Hollywood and Europe.”
3 Minutes Of New Moon May Lead To 3-Year Sentence
A woman who says she was “taping parts of her sister’s surprise birthday party” at a showing of “Twilight: New Moon” “faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies.” She’s already spent two nights in jail.
An Elder’s Words Of Wisdom To Young Composers
Including: “Once you’ve recovered from the grand aesthetic statement you just made, make sure your music is actually playable. And, hopefully, readable.”
Malcolm Wells, Gentle Architecture’s Advocate, Dies at 83
“Malcolm Wells, an iconoclastic architect who tirelessly advocated environmentally responsible design and who promoted the idea of earth-sheltered architecture — that is, buildings at least partly underground –” championed “what he called gentle architecture, something that would, as he put it, ‘leave the land no worse than you found it.'”
Skylight Opera A.D. Theisen Talks About The Turmoil
Chucked by Skylight Opera Theatre in a cost-saving move, then wooed back after the Milwaukee company suffered protests and national disgrace, artistic director Bill Theisen says the whole debacle could have been avoided if only he’d been asked to go to half-time status. “And I’m quite sure I would have said yes….”