“Vegetable gardens, flying carpets and Scrooge McDuck: in the late ’60s, young Italian architects ripped up the traditional nightclub and designed a new type of boogie wonderland.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Paris’s Hit Staging Of ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ Coming To Broadway
“The [Théâtre du] Châtelet production …, based on the 1952 movie, is directed by Robert Carsen, designed by Anthony Powell and choreographed by Stephen Mear. It faithfully reproduces the dialogue and action of the film, with its songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, and its famous splash-in-the-puddles, rain-drenched dance solo for Gene Kelly.”
Adele Mailer, 90, Artist, Actress, Wife and Stabbing Victim Of Norman Mailer
“Adele Morales was an aspiring painter in 1951 when she met Mailer, the author of The Naked and the Dead, who was on his way to becoming recognized as one of the pre-eminent postwar American novelists. The two began living together and married three years later. … The relationship, marked by heavy drinking and ancillary love affairs on both sides, was stormy.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.23.15
A Recipe For Trouble At New York City Museum
When more than a half dozen people shake their heads in disbelief at a museum announcement, and make a point of asking me what I think, I’d say it was time to weigh in publicly. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-11-23
Sugarcoating Gonzales-Torres’ Candy: Crystal Bridges Updates from NW Arkansas Business Journal And Me
What has Alice Walton’s generously endowed startup, which just celebrated its fourth anniversary, been up to lately? … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-11-23
Monday Recommendation: Terell Stafford
From his emergence in the early 1990s, Terell Stafford’s conception has drawn on the modern jazz trumpet tradition at large. He has evidently not felt the need to pattern himself on individual predecessors. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-11-23
Sushi for one
I have two good friends who are singletons and claim to actively prefer living alone. It’s hard for me to believe that this avowed preference is anything more than a sign that they’ve yet to meet Mister or Miss Right – which I’m well aware is nothing more than a complete failure of imagination on my part. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-11-23
A Unique Friend
Any regular Seattle Opera attendee might remember hearing several slightly tenorial shouts of Bravo! after an aria or at the end of a performance, a sound that carried over even the most tumultuous applause. … read more
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-11-23
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Jazz Great Cassandra Wilson Refuses To Leave Hotel Room For Concert, Keeping 2,500 People Waiting For Almost 90 Minutes
“Almost half the 2,500-strong audience at [London’s] Royal Festival Hall had walked out by the time [the singer], 59, was finally coaxed into taking the stage by fellow band members on Sunday.
Cassandra Wilson’s Concert Fiasco – An Eyewitness Report
“When she finally came on stage, she looked unsteady on her feet, her face half hidden by her right arm. She delivered a somewhat perfunctory version of ‘Don’t Explain,’ before berating some members of the audience for using their cellphones. And she didn’t explain.”
Design Team Named For Performing Arts Center At World Trade Center Site
“The Brooklyn-based architecture firm, REX has been selected to reconceive the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, which was originally designed by Frank Gehry.
When Helga Fooled Us All: Robert Hughes On The Media Frenzy Around Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Secret’ Paintings
“The lanes and back roads, diners and gas stations and Kmarts of rural Pennsylvania were crawling with intrepid reporters, festooned in tape recorders and videocams, looking for Helga. Whether Wyeth was obsessed with her or not, the media certainly were. The quest for Helga began to take on the epic proportions of the search for Patty Hearst, or even the Lindbergh baby.”
The Musical For – And By – People Who Hate Musicals
“The ingredients of Futurity, a new off-Broadway show, promise a noble failure. The story crams together the bloodiness of the American civil war, the barbarity of slavery, the purity of mathematics, the promise of artificial intelligence and the wisdom of Ada Lovelace (Lord Byron’s daughter, who was an early computer scientist and a metaphysicist).”
The Big New Market For Homoerotic Fiction? Straight Chinese Women
“Danmei, meaning ‘indulgence in beauty’, is China’s version of what is often called ‘slash’ fiction in other countries. … The genre is only available online in China”