Oskar Schlemmer created his 1922 Triadic Ballet as a response to the Industrial Age. Now two curators and 30 collaborators, including Karole Armitage (choreography) and furniture designers the Campana brothers (costumes), have mounted an updated version in, of all places, Jersey City.
Author: Matthew Westphal
An Olfactory Artist Recreates The Aromas Of 35 Cities
Sissel Tolaas has a collection – a library, if you will – of more than 6,500 odors in airtight cans as well as a “smell camera” she travels with. She’s created what she calls SmellScapes of towns as varied as Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, Cape Town, London, Kansas City, and, most recently, Singapore. Here’s how she does it.
‘Blamegiving Day’ – For Decades, Secularists Campaigned To Get God Out Of Thanksgiving And Concern For The Poor Into It
You think the “War on Christmas” is a bitter struggle, Bill O’Reilly? Pish-posh. Repeated efforts by secularists to erase the religious element from a U.S. government-declared national holiday go all the way back to President Grover Cleveland and before.
The High-Tech Workshop That’s Produced Exact Replicas Of Caravaggio Paintings And Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Factum Arte won fame for installing a faithful copy of Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana where Napoleon had ripped the original from the wall. Its full-size copy of the teenage pharaoh’s burial chamber has been installed at Luxor so that tourists can spend time in it without their breath and body moisture damaging the original. Now there’s a hope that Factum could help recreate at least some of what ISIS destroyed at Nimrud.
Eight Broadway Stars And Directors Give Their Thoughts On Trump’s Tweets And Theater As Safe Space
Susan Stroman: “For somebody like me who’s done The Scottsboro Boys, it’s a space to start a conversation.”
Matthew Broderick: “We’re now talking about yet another nonissue. … It’s like [Trump] flashes a little shiny paper in front of everybody and any bit of bad news gets forgotten.”
Andrea Martin: “‘A safe place.’ Not if Patti LuPone’s onstage!”
In 19th-Century America, Theater Was Anything But A Safe Space
To judge from newspaper reports of the time, audience behavior was more like what you get at a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Pittsburgh Symphony Strike Is About To End: Report
“The sides could agree to a deal as soon as this week, resuscitating the symphony’s dormant season, people with ties to both sides in the labor dispute told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week.”
Thieves Steal ‘Nutcracker’ Costumes From Rhode Island Ballet Company
Last week the artistic director of Festival Ballet Providence and an assistant went to the company’s storage space to fetch the crates full of costumes and found that many were half-empty. They have three weeks to find replacements.
Epic Movie About Legendary World War II Battle Opens In Russia, And People Argue About The Truth
And they’re arguing less about whether the version of the story in the film is true than about whether the truth matters.
David Hockney To Create Stained-Glass Window For Westminster Abbey
The window, to be unveiled in June 2018 in the church’s north transept, is in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.