“In the world of type design – an exacting, arcane craft that is underappreciated for its impact on how people communicate and receive communication – Mr. Zapf was a giant.” Among the more than 200 typefaces he created (in several alphabets) are Palatino, Optima, Melior, and the befuddling, beloved Dingbats.
Author: Matthew Westphal
What If They Gave Major Dance Awards And (Almost) Nobody Came?
“This year’s Benois de la Danse, which took place over two days at the end of May in its traditional home, the Bolshoi Theater, was particularly marked by the absence of award winners.”
Here’s Who Bought The Most Expensive Sculpture Ever Auctioned
Shortly after Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger distracted us all by selling for $179 million, an anonymous bidder paid $141.3 million for Giacometti’s L’homme au doigts (Pointing Man). Who was he? One of the likeliest suspects, as it happens.
The Onion’s Newest Spinoff ‘Is Producing Some Of The Best Video Art On The Internet’
“Recently, Clickhole ventured into self-reflexive territory pioneered by Douglas Gordon in his installation 24 Hour Psycho with the maddeningly jumpy Sorry, We Slowed Down This Video Of A Hummingbird Too Much. There are even nods to Andy Warhol’s appropriations of advertising and mass-produced packaging in Clickhole videos like Don’t Believe The Hype: This Can Has No Peas In It and Yes! Ham Goes Up An Escalator.”
North Korea Releases An Instructional Dance Video
“It shows how to perform a variety of moves for the country’s traditional mass dance events, like this one, that took place on May 1 in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.”
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Eifman Ballet’s ‘Psychiatric’ Problem
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Alternative to Despair
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Act of worship
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Caitlyn Jenner And The Duggars Aren’t Distractions From ‘Real News’, They ARE The Real News
Andrew O’Hehir: “When you observe the intense and unfeigned public response to those stories, and the symbolic media warfare they provoke, it becomes not just meaningless but dangerous to insist that such things are inherently trivial, or serve only to distract the citizenry from Serious Issues and Real News.”
How Big Is The Tony Effect? ‘Fun Home’ Quadruples Sales
“The Tony Award for best new musical … is likely to be a major turning point, allowing the production to reach new markets, and new audiences, that might have been initially put off by its searing exploration of sexuality and suicide.”
How Big Is The No-Tonys Effect? ‘The Visit’ Closes This Weekend
“The show, which began previews on March 26 and opened April 23, has been a box office disappointment but a passion project for its producers and investors, who worked for more than a decade to bring it to Broadway.”
Why Would A Museum With A $1 Billion Endowment Cut Staff Health-Care Benefits? Inside The Ongoing MoMA Labor Dispute
“Management is saying that health-care costs are going up in the double digits. Management also said something really crazy; they told us, ‘You really like that health care,’ like, you use it, like, are we supposed to not use it? And they want us to share the burden; however MoMA’s endowment topped a billion dollars last month … We had the Matisse cutouts show this year, which was a blockbuster. The museum is doing better than it has ever done.”