For his stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, the director basically tore out the insides of New York Theater Workshop and turned the space into three separate rooms, each holding 60 people, which get recombined into an amphitheater.
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Freud And His -Ism Came To Be Ubiquitous
“Eavesdrop on a conversation and it’s likely that, sooner or later, a concept invented or popularised by the founding father of free association will pop up. Oedipus complex. Denial. Id, ego and super-ego. Libido. Death wishes. Anal retentiveness. … Phallic symbols. Projection. And, of course, Freudian slips.”
San Antonio’s New Opera Company Debuts In What Was Once “An Opera Town”
“Success. Happiness. Disappointment. Ruination. Renewed hope. Those ingredients help turn opera plots. They also could apply to the history of opera in San Antonio, which has experienced cycles of lavish success punctuated by periods of dwindling audiences, inactivity followed by revived interest.”
“Painting Set Free” – How J.M.W. Turner Made Modern Art Possible
There’s a story that Mark Rothko, after seeing a Turner exhibition at MoMA in 1966, quipped, “This man Turner, he learned a lot from me.” Alastair Sooke explores what Rothko meant.
America’s First LGBT Jazz Festival Has Begun
Jazz has generally been thought to be a somewhat homophobic field, notwithstanding such great musicians as Cecil Taylor, Billy Strayhorn, and Fred Hersch – who is a headliner at the inaugural OutBeat festival this weekend in Philadelphia.
“It’s Not Literary” – Why It’s Such A Breakthrough For Alison Bechdel And Roz Chast To Be Getting Book Prizes
Alexander Chee: “‘I don’t know how to evaluate this.’ ‘Shouldn’t comics have their own category?’ ‘This isn’t literary.’ As a frequent juror on prizes, colonies and fellowships, I am, it could be said, so tired of this, that in fact, I will fight you for Roz Chast’s right to be on this list. I will fight you for the right for Bechdel to get that MacArthur.”
Danish Radio Disbands Its Chamber Orchestra
“Denmark’s state broadcaster DR announced yesterday that budget cuts would see its chamber orchestra close in January. DR’s Danish National Chamber Orchestra or ‘Underholdningsorkestret’ – previously known as the Danish Radio Sinfonietta – will cease playing in January though it would appear DR’s symphony orchestra will remain unaffected.”
How To Dig Yourself Out Of Your Sleep Debt
“Sleep loss, researchers contend, works kind of like credit. Skip a few hours of sleep, and you’ll be all right, so long as you pay back the ‘debt’ in a timely manner. But when sleepless nights stretch on for weeks, or months, your sleep debt starts to accumulate.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.18.14
What we should do
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-09-18
More Triumphs And Woes For Frank Gehry
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-19
The Big Lie of Jeff Koons
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-18
Report From Russia: Арфа и джаз (Take Five)
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-09-18
Poking Koch: Meet the Metropolitan Museum’s Vibrant New Plaza & Its Detractors (with videos)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-09-18
The funeral at the Hideout, with Survival Unit III
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-09-19
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Who Killed “American Psycho”? Hungry Producers, That’s Who
“Two veteran Broadway producers helped torpedo an Off Broadway theater’s premiere of the high-profile musical American Psycho and are now in talks to bring it directly to Broadway next fall.”