Category: people

“People from both camps have discovered some inventive opportunities for cross-pollination while maintaining church/state lines.”

“On the evening in May 1970 when he was being welcomed to his new job with a reception in the museum’s sculpture garden, a group of activist artists … crashed his party, heckled the guests and splashed about in the reflecting pool, demanding an end to the war in Southeast Asia.”

Beuys, like many other German men of his generation, was “someone who wanted to be a hero, but ended up being lured into something terrible instead.”

“Plaza said the matter-of-factness in her character’s sexual awakening was appealing. ‘Girls learn how to masturbate, too; we just haven’t seen it before,’ she said.”

“Vladimir Urin, the man who was appointed Tuesday as the new Bolshoi Theatre director, … won respect from colleagues by quietly revamping Moscow’s 90-year-old Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre to prominence over the past decade by attracting international talent while also popularising contemporary ballet in Russia before the trend caught on in the Bolshoi.”

“When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?”

“Ferran Adrià might not be a household name, but for nearly three decades, as chef and mastermind of the acclaimed Catalan Spanish restaurant El Bullí, he moussed, foamed and otherwise re-imagined cuisine in modernist ways that have inspired many of the world’s top chefs.”

“Anyone who has watched her on stage knows that this magnificent projection of calm often ends up a wild, sweaty, ecstatic mess. She has admitted to hallucinating while deep in performance and she regularly sends her audiences in Pakistan and India into swaying raptures, swooning and fainting being quite standard reactions.”

“The pity of it is that Adler is very far from being shrill. In person, she is warm and slightly kooky, her tone ironic and, as she has already pointed out, even. On the page, she is wise and clear and forensic. Nothing gets by her, whether she is writing about Nixon or Biafra or afternoon television.”

The legendary beauty’s first starring performance in nearly a decade will be in an adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s La voix humaine directed by Eduardo Ponti, Loren’s younger son.