“The murals that were meant to ruin the appetite of wealthy patrons inspired chef/stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves to interpret Rothko’s collection using rice.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Much Is That Ballet Dancer In The Window?
Can’t get to The Nutcracker this year? That’s OK; just go shopping, and the ballerinas will come to you.
Museum’s Last (Full-time) Taxidermist Dies, Age 87
David Schwendeman, the chief taxidermist at the American Museum of Natural History for 29 years, “was an extraordinary artist, an expert sculptor. … He could pose animals accurately and scientifically, and at the same time make them aesthetically beautiful.”
The Movie Theatre, A True Communion Of Minds
Especially if everyone remembers to shut off mobiles, seeing a film en masse is far superior to watching it at home.
File This Under Unsurprising: Amazon To Open EuroPublishing Wing
And some writers aren’t happy about Amazon’s plans: “Not content with threatening high street bookshops and disrupting the traditional publishing model with its Kindle e-readers, the web giant has written to authors’ agents to announce its attack on another link in the chain.”
Kindly Shut The Hell Up – And Stop With The Fisticuffs
“Ever since an audience member at the BSO punched out another audience member who asked him to be quiet, I’m terrified to suggest that one reprimand theater offenders.”
Humans Are Deeply In Love With Adultery (In Fiction, Anyway)
“The struggle to balance our collective and individual selves gets to the very root of what it is to be human. When the two urges come into conflict, as happens in any extramarital affair, all hell breaks lose.”
Watch Giacometti Draw And Paint One Of His Final Works
“The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his famously thin, elongated sculptures of the human form. Giacometti was a similarly brilliant and original draughtsman who maintained that drawing was the central skill of an artist.”
Without An Orchestra, Is The Nutcracker Worth It?
What’s up with the hard times at Clara’s family Christmas? No live music plus a terrible recording equals a ballet without life.
British Award Winners Speak Out Against Funding Cuts
Nicholas Hytner: “For the length of my directorship of the National, it has been by and large properly funded. I know that a lot of other London theatres don’t have it so good and theatres outside London have it even worse. Now we are being told to expect less funding and this is completely nuts. It makes no economic sense whatsoever.”