Jason deCaires Taylor’s suite of sculptures, called the Coralarium and touted as “the world’s first intertidal srt gallery” by the resort off whose beach it’s installed, was demolished last week amidst an election campaign which the incumbent president, who had been railing against Western influences, lost.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Pianist With Tourette’s Says British Orchestras Are Colluding To Discriminate Against Him
Nick Van Bloss says that his involuntary tics disappear while he is playing and that he has concertized successfully abroad, but that the orchestras in his home country have gotten together to blacklist him. The Telegraph has obtained correspondence between some of those orchestras on the matter.
This Little Italian City Is Next Year’s European Capital Of Culture. It’s Not Even Close To Ready
In Matera, most of the venues are still unbuilt or unrenovated, and neither the rail line from Rome mor the new highway are finished. “Rome and Brussels secured €400m (£360m) to organise the year’s events, money that was supposed to pay for restoring buildings and repairing streets in a place famed for its stunning but dilapidated beauty and history of dire poverty. But … most of the money is still trapped in the labyrinth of Italian bureaucracy and has not yet been spent.”
Rembrandt: Master Market Manipulator
Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, which opened Sept. 16 at the Denver Art Museum, showcases the known glories of his work—but with an eye-opening twist.
Propwatch: home comforts
The pineapple icebucket in Home, I’m Darling; toothbrushes in Home; the doll’s house in Aristocrats; nothing in Pericles.
Monday Recommendation: Miller And Staaf
Allison Miller and Carmen Staaf, Science Fair (Sunnyside)
Check Out The Weird And Wonderful Tradition Of Albanian Polyphonic Singing
“Set against a backdrop of the dreamy mountains of Labëria in southern Albania, Washed by the Moon, British/German filmmaker Dan Shutt’s directorial debut, is a rich journey through the region’s musical history. … We invited the director to compile a mix that encapsulates the ancient Albanian tradition of isopolyphonic singing.”
Documentarian Breaks Still-Strong Taboo: Filming The Moment Of Death
Steven Eastwood shot his feature film Island in a hospice on England’s Isle of Wight, where four patients allowed him to capture their final days and (actual) final breaths. “What’s interesting is there isn’t an image. You can’t see the dying. I think that’s fascinating, because to talk about how the film shows you the moment of death, I don’t know when that moment is. I’ve watched it over and over.”
Spokane Tries For Its First Professional Dance Company In 25 Years
Since the Ballet Company of Spokane shut down in 1993, only amateur and student dance performances have been available in the city. Vincas Greene is trying to fill that gap with his Vytal Movement Dance Company.
‘That Rare Thing, A Publishing (B)Romance’ — Tennessee Williams And James Laughlin
Writer and actor Simon Callow looks at the relationship between the playwright and publisher, two wildly different men who were each other’s benefactors — financially, professionally, personally — for forty years.