“The clip starts with two young California Conservation Corps members, Antwon McCoy and Leonard Patton breaking it down for the camera. About thirty seconds into their dancing, their boss Griffith, a 42-year old large man with a beard and a ranger hat, drops into the video from stage left and busts a few moves .”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Eli Broad’s Still A Player In the Drama Of MoCA And LACMA
“Art world experts speculate that Broad could be motivated by rivalry with Govan and a desire to ensure a successful launch of his namesake Broad Collection museum, which is set to open across the street from MOCA’s Grand Avenue base next year.”
When A Star Composes For Broadway
“‘Most pop stars come to you and say: “Oh you want to write a Broadway show. Here’s all my songs. Have a good time.” Cyndi came in and did’ the work, Mr. Fierstein said, adding an expletive for good measure.”
Should Composers Be Grateful For Bad Performances?
“If a performance is especially problematic, one thing a composer can do to minimize any potential negative impact is to simply be silent. No one who wasn’t in attendance needs to know a thing about it beyond the fact that it happened.”
X-Box: A New Venue For Actors (Not To Mention Athletes)?
“Tellem said she saw opportunity for XES to expand into ‘all things entertainment–from games, music and fitness to news, sports, live events, television series and movies.'”
The Weird, Utter Brilliance Of Anne Carson
“The dedication page of‘Red Doc > reads simply: ‘To the randomizer.’ The term suggests, in light of Carson’s work, all kinds of tantalizing possibilities: an ancient deity or a private muse or some kind of supercomputer deep in an undersea cave, powered by whale song and squid tears and sea-filtered traces of honey-wheat Grecian sunlight.”
A Passionate Scientific Split That Was To Play Out In Public: Denied
“The tone of the dustup between Mr. Albert and Mr. Krauss — summed up by one blogger as ‘an ongoing cosmological street fight’ that had broken out ‘broad media daylight’ — would have certainly left those who saw both men’s names on early publicity material anticipating something closer to a wrestling match than dispassionate scholarly discussion.”
Artist Whose Neo-Nazi Symbols Are Not So Ironic Responds
“Krafft asserts that he is not a racist or a Nazi, but a ‘revisionist’ whose ideas are based in history. ‘I just don’t buy this thing about “2,000 people a day being gassed at Auschwitz,”‘ Krafft claims; ‘it doesn’t add up to me technologically.'”
Sergei Filin And The Complex, Terrible Society Of The Bolshoi
“Sometimes an institution has an uncanny way of embodying the society to which it belongs. … So it is at the pinnacles of Russian dance. Since the nineteenth century, the country’s two principal stages–the Mariinsky, in St. Petersburg, and the Bolshoi, in Moscow–have acted as microcosms of imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, and, now, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”
The Piano You Can Lift With One Hand
“Aesthetically, it is a strange beast; futuristic black, ultra-clean, with a keyboard made from black silicon – it looks as if it were beamed to Earth from a fetish club in the future.”