“Several dancers noted that under Ms. Lopez’s direction, the company is starting to feel more connected to the culture of Miami, rather than like an outpost of New York City Ballet. This is also reflected in its roster, which includes a higher-than-average number of Latin Americans, including a large contingent from Brazil.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
John Cage Turned Black Mountain Into A Performance Center
“Cage wanted a contemporary art that reflects life as it was led. To the Black Mountain traditional modernists, and especially for the émigrés, memory must always be honored, one must never forget.”
What The Movie Biz Did To The Director Of ‘Girlfight’
“The arc of her life and career easily reflects the trials faced by so many other female filmmakers. But it is also the singular story of an (at times) painfully solitary artist, someone whose temperament has put her at odds with the lopsided demands of her chosen profession — and, ultimately, allowed her to survive it.”
The Man Who Turned The Organ, And Bach, Into Serious Study
“Unlike scholars in the Bach field who have often succumbed to a bland attitude of continuous adulation towards the master, [Peter] Williams, who has died aged 78, never shirked from showing where Bach fell short of his own astonishing standards, observing, for instance, that certain of his pieces show ‘teeth-gritting dogma’ and that there is something alienating in the thoroughness of the Well-Tempered Clavier’s progress through all the major and minor keys twice over.”
We’re Obsessed With Innovation, But What We Actually Need Is Maintenance
“In formal economic terms, ‘innovation’ involves the diffusion of new things and practices. The term is completely agnostic about whether these things and practices are good. Crack cocaine, for example, was a highly innovative product in the 1980s, which involved a great deal of entrepreneurship (called ‘dealing’) and generated lots of revenue.”
This Is The Woman Who Brought The Original Paddington Bear To Life On The Page
“After photographing Malayan bears at the London Zoo, [Peggy Fortnum] depicted, in black and white with pen and ink, an endearingly frumpy refugee with a floppy hat and duffel coat — ignoring her London art tutor’s advice that she never draw animals that talked and wore clothes.”
How Did Architecture – And Development – Pass East New York By?
“An account of a tour though East New York reads like a Dickens parody. Walk the streets and you’ll pass scrapyards; junkyards; auto dismantlers; methadone clinics; prostitution motels that charge by the hour; seventeen mental health facilities; fifteen drug-treatment facilities; twelve homeless shelters; half-way houses and three-quarter houses.”
An Explicitly Sexual And Explicitly Violent Lucia Draws Boos In London
“The extra scenes include a passionate sex sequence and, after the audience are led to understand Lucia was pregnant, a miscarriage on stage.”
When Museum Protesters Take Over The Museum’s Walls
“An artist from Bushwick, Sarah Quinter, wrote an open letter to the museum, saying the conference participants engaged in speculation and were part of an ‘epidemic of gentrification’ that endangered the stability of neighborhoods.”
What Happens After A Town Dies?
“‘They’re haunting places,’ says Nick Trujillo, a New Mexico resident who that has made a hobby of exploring the lonesome ghost towns in the eastern part of his state. ‘There is something deeply personal about entering someone’s house, even if they have been gone for decades.'”