James Turrell will have nine different immersive light installations. Jenny Holzer will be showing 200 silk-screened paintings and 21 stone paintings as well as several LED displays, all (of course) featuring text. Laurie Anderson will be playing with virtual reality.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Curtis Institute Orchestra’s Big BBC Interview Cut Short: They Had To Evacuate The Building
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra, on tour under conductor Osmo Vänskä, had arrived in London and were being featured on BBC Radio 3’s live music-news-and-talk program, In Tune. A small group had just played part of a Mozart flute quintet, and a graduating violinist was about to play a duet with the school’s president, Roberto Díaz, when the announcement came …
Planners Of London’s New Concert Hall Should Learn Some Lessons From Hamburg’s New Elbphilharmonie – But Can They?
And no, it’s not just that the new hall shouldn’t run 920% over budget. Unfortunately, as Jack May writes, the lessons from Hamburg may be things that London just isn’t situated to do.
Here’s A Dance Job You Never Knew Existed: Restaurant Choreographer
The idea is to teach staffers about both non-verbal communication (with customers and each other) and about gracefully negotiating tight spaces. Says one restaurant choreographer, “I went into it thinking it would be almost like movement coaching, but the amount of dance terminology, spatial composition, effort and tempo decisions left me feeling each experience couldn’t be more of a choreography gig if I tried.”
What Skills Do Workers In Arts And Culture Really Need? We Analyzed Millions Of Job Ads To Find Out
The researchers found that the skills required fall into five clusters, only two of which are self-evidently “creative.” The other three “are not inherently creative and [are] therefore at risk of being overlooked, but … are essential to enabling the creative process.”
Alexander Burdonsky, Russian Stage Director And Stalin’s Grandson, Dead At 75
For 45 years he worked at the People’s Army Theater, the main company for the Soviet and then the Russian armed forces. “Aside from his theater work, Mr. Burdonsky kept a low profile, using his mother’s surname. He said he had never visited Stalin’s grave, by the Kremlin wall.”
Who’s Up To Become UNESCO’s Next Director-General?
Among the candidates to succeed Irina Bokova this November is former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay, the only one of nine who’s from Europe or North America. Three of the candidates are women, and four are from the Arab world.
Why Terrorists Attack Performance Venues Like The Manchester Arena And The Bataclan
Alyssa Rosenberg: “The killers who carry out such acts of terrorism aren’t simply launching assaults on Western culture. They’re attempting to destroy the particular freedom that comes from surrendering to art, exploiting the very vulnerability that accompanies that surrender.”
The Writers And Directors For ‘I Love Dick’ Are Mostly Female – And The Sex Scenes Are Wilder Because Of It
Showrunner Jill Soloway and several of the show’s actresses, as well as the (male) director of photography, talk about how the different atmosphere on set and in the scripts (yes, including the lack of “the male gaze”) makes everyone willing to take bigger risks.
The 90-Year-Old Director Of ‘Shoah’ Bluffed His Way Into North Korea – Where He Had Once Had A Lover
Claude Lanzmann told the DPRK authorities that he was shooting a film about tae kwon do – and he kept it up with his ever-present government minders, who believed him. In reality, he was revisiting the scene of an affair some 60 years earlier.