“Michael Hulls, the man who paints the dancing of Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and a small elite handful of others,” talks about the history of stage lighting, his preference for chiaroscuro, and a peculiar run-in with the Royal Ballet’s lighting technicians.
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Robert Nelson, 81, Maker of Experimental Films
“Confoundingly plotless but cleverly and energetically edited to render images in often poignant, often uproarious juxtaposition, Mr. Nelson’s movies are varied in tone and subject matter, but they all exhibit the subversive relish of a renegade, quirky wit.” Nelson died of cancer on January 9.
Rethinking Urban Renewal And Its Successes (That’s Right: Successes)
“In the national war on blight, the poor were disproportionately targeted for eviction from dilapidated downtowns to make way for parks, office buildings, sports arenas, and high-rise apartments. But a new study for the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that urban renewal, or slum clearance, had some lasting positive effects on economic growth.”
Hockney Exhibit Moves Mountains (Of People) In London
“We’re still smiling. Everybody is coming out with a smile on their face. It’s fantastic, far better than Leonardo, sorry Leonardo, but all that colour. Yorkshire is going to get a lot of tourists after this.”
Religion Plus Hollywood Doesn’t Have To Be A Fail
“Hitting people over the head with overt expressions of faith is every bit as irritating, and potentially limiting, as insulting believers.”
That Radical Liszt – And His Path To Modern Fame
The Sonata in B Minor “is music of drastic intellectuality, clothed in a Dantesque drama. Looking within the sonata’s mighty inner conflicts, one finds the most daring structural innovation in large-form composition since Beethoven. Claudio Arrau called it Beethoven’s 33rd sonata, probably meaning that had Beethoven lived, he would have eventually fused all elements of sonata form into a one-movement plan.”
Cate Blanchett Bows Out Of Theatre Company
After a successful six-year run as co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company, Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton will end their run at the close of the 2013 season. What will happen to the theatre after its celebrity directors leave?