Monica Tan: “Once you’re in front of it, the shape is so large it fills your entire field of vision, until it seems to warp and wrap around your entire body. Without a thread between my body and the work, my bare flesh seems to be drinking all that peppy pink brightness in. … Everyone around me is gawping at the art, almost euphoric with delight.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
“A Pritzker Prize For Sculpture”: Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center Announces New $100K Award
“The Nasher Prize for Sculpture will be presented to ‘a living artist in recognition of the art form.’ The inaugural winner will be announced in the fall and receive the award on April 2, 2016.”
They’re Going To Digitally Recreate Bruce Lee For New Biopic
“Ip Man 3 will be the third film to depict the famous wing chun kung fu grandmaster (also known as Yip Man), after the huge box-office success of 2008’s Ip Man and 2010’s Ip Man 2. … The third instalment was to be the first to feature the Enter the Dragon star as an adult.”
Seven Hours From Call To Stage: Tenor Saves The Show At The Metropolitan Opera
“Asked to fill in for the Joseph Calleja, Michael Fabiano rushed to New York, was fitted for costumes and a few hours later, wowed the audience.”
The 11 Greatest Children’s Books (A BBC Critics’ Poll)
“In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture’s Jane Ciabattari polled dozens of critics around the world … We asked each to name the best children’s books (for ages 10 and under) ever published in English.”
The TV Preacher Who Became A Major Patron Of Modernist Architecture
“He began with a drive-in church designed by Richard Neutra located just three miles from Disneyland. Over time he added a telegenic cathedral by Philip Johnson and a shimmering, cylindrical ‘hospitality center,’ with an auditorium and cafe, by Richard Meier.
Watching Them Turn Off The Rothkos At Harvard
“Rothko’s work is pretty much all about the color, so the murals, in their faded condition, seemed to be dead … [and] it was impossible to restore them by conventional means. So a solution was borrowed from a technique known as ‘compensating illumination’ … Five digital projectors have been programmed to light the canvases so that the original colors reappear. At four o’clock every day, the projectors are turned off one by one, and the colors revert to (mostly) muddy blacks and grays. … As one observer put it, when the lights go off, comedy turns into tragedy.”
Filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, Whose Career Stretched From Silent Films To The 2010s, Dead At 106
“For his champions, his striking output since especially the early 1970s placed him at the top of auteur royalty … Oliveira had completed only two features by age 55 but subsequently made 29 by the time he was 102. … [His most recent film, The Old Man of Belem, premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival.”
The Weirdest Musical Instruments
“As a radical new two-string violin goes on display in New York, Clemency Burton-Hill looks at some more odd instruments, from the octobass to the theremin.”
How One English City’s Arts Venues Survived Savage Cuts
“There were howls of protest in 2012 when Newcastle City Council said it would be the first British city to scrap funding for theatres, galleries and other arts venues. A compromise was found, and venues are now finding new ways to survive.”