Wait. What? They’re really not, though. Playing in what seems like an addictive way “is normal behavior that, while perhaps in many cases a waste of time, is not damaging or disruptive of lives in the way drug or alcohol use can be.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
As The Dancers Move, A Projector Maps Their Faces And Makes Them Look Fairly Terrifying (And Amazing)
The high-speed projector works at 1,000 frames per minute, and “over the course of about one minute, the dancers are made to look like skulls with empty eye sockets, big-toothed clowns, and terrifying dolls with their jaws unhinged.”
Inspired By Bakersfield
Artist Mary Weatherford has worked in bookstores and galleries; she has worked for other artists for money – but she has never stopped creating her own art too. Finally, her abstract work is winning her some attention and shows.
How One Theatre Took An Immersive Show And Put It In A Proscenium Space
Basically, the set designer had to work super, super hard. “We probably redesigned the show 18 different times,” says David Korins. Many things changed and, perhaps, evolved.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Siberian Poet Who Denounced Stalin And Inspired Millions, Has Died At 83
The poet, who “often declaimed with sweeping gestures to thousands of excited admirers in public squares, sports stadiums and lecture halls” in the years soon after Stalin died, ended his own days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had been for many years a professor at the University of Tulsa.
Why Do People Try To Destroy Art In Museums?
Basically, it boils down to three reasons (minus the random disturbed person with a screwdriver): It’s famous; it’s politically charged; it’s sexually explicit.
The Public Memorial For Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds Became A Musical Revue And Dancefest, And Here’s How
“Emotion flowed openly once the memorial got underway, particularly when the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles rose from seats in the audience and began singing Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ en masse. Troupes of dancers from the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio — she founded the North Hollywood venue in 1979 — performed with umbrellas and yellow raincoats to honor the star.”
A Holocaust Survivor Collected More Than 7,000 Pieces Of Anti-Semitic Art
Arthur Langerman’s father died in Auschwitz, and he has spent years collecting statues, postcards, posters, cartoons and other examples of anti-semitic European art. Now some of it is on display in Norway because the collector sees the situation as urgent: “Langerman believed antisemitism was on the decline when he began his collection. Today, he’s no longer so sure.”
Donald Judd, Persistent Disbeliever And Committed Skeptic
With Judd, to put it mildly, “He had not the slightest appetite for polite back patting. … Doubt always came first.”
Toronto Gets Its Own Superheated Real Estate Market That Forces Artists And Musicians Out
Some predict a hollowing out of the downtown core in Toronto, with basically only bad traffic left. Right now, “Landmark musicians are leaving for more affordable regions in unsettling numbers and, with them go songs and culture.”