In light of what seems to be the actor’s ongoing flameout, Richard Brody looks back at some of Depardieu’s best screen performances.
Author: Matthew Westphal
King Herod The Great Becomes Popular In Israel
A new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has been changing the monarch’s public image from that of a murderous villain and Roman imperial stooge (in the Jewish Talmud as well as the Christian Gospels) to that of an interesting and accomplished historical figure.
Tracey Emin Becomes A Romantic
The creator, in her youth, of such notorious installations as My Bed and Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963-1995 is now creating neon works with titles like I Promise To Love You and You Touch My Soul. Emin “affectionately recalled an e-mail that her studio had received from newlyweds who had bought a digital neon work, priced at eighty dollars, and had projected it at their wedding.”
Gilmore Girls Producer Creates TV Series About Ballet Dancers
Amy Sherman-Palladino “had been training in ballet and other dance styles since childhood” – until she ended up making a career as a television scriptwriter. … Since you can never take the dance out of the dancer, though, the DNA of her previous life can be seen all over Bunheads.”
Daring Plans From Chicago Opera Theater’s New Director
Andreas Mitisek “has built a reputation for putting on opera seasons that are eclectic in repertory, unconventional and even provocative in performance. It’s not for nothing that Opera News magazine last year named the Austrian-born Mitisek, 50, one of 25 people who will be major forces in opera over the coming decade.”
Suspected Thief Of Dalí Drawing Lured From Europe, Arrested
“The clue – a simple fingerprint on a juice bottle stolen from Whole Foods – was routine. But that, along with some creative undercover work, helped the authorities unravel the brazen daylight theft of a Dalí drawing from an Upper East Side gallery that had gone unsolved for months.”
Director Of Ugandan Gay Play Deported, Vows To Return
“A British theatre producer deported from Uganda after staging a play with a gay character has vowed to fight on and legally win the right to return to a country he calls home. David Cecil has been forced to leave behind everything, including his girlfriend of six years and two children aged two and one.”
15th-Century Florentine Frescoes Can Now Be Seen From Artist’s Eye Level
The scaffolding used by the restorers of Agnolo Gaddi’s The Legend of the True Cross in the Basilica of Santa Croce “will remain in place for most of 2013, allowing visitors to see [the fresco cycle] from the vantage point of the artist himself.”
Italy’s Hottest Contemporary Art Installations Are In The Naples Subway
“Catacombs of beauty” is how curator Achille Bonito Oliva describes his ten-years-and-counting project, which has recruited more than 100 artists and architects – including the likes of William Kentridge, Sol LeWitt, Shirin Neshat and Robert Wilson – to transform metro stations into cultural monuments.
Russia Freezes Assets Of Head Of Ambitious Mikhailovsky Theatre
Vladmir Kekhman, the wealthy businessman who took over St. Petersburg’s second ballet-opera house and began luring stars from other companies and programming adventurous fare, has been banned from leaving Russia and had most of his assets frozen pursuant to a case by a Russian bank against his fruit-importing company.