Richter “probably numbers among the least eccentric painters in the world. While working, he wears his sleeves crisply rolled up. He applies his paint very deliberately, and he concentrates on the canvas in a keenly focused manner. Indeed, while painting, he looks more like a self-composed surgeon than an artist striving for self-realization.”
Tag: 02.10.12
Can We Please Just Stop With The Holocaust Movies? (A Response to Agnieszka Holland’s ‘In Darkness’)
“I know the arguments about never forgetting; that making movies or writing books about the Holocaust is a way to keep these memories alive. But books — libraries full of them — have been written. Plenty of good films (bad ones, too) have been made, and this output will endure. Why do we need fresh entries at this point? Is anyone truly going to see In Darkness to learn about war-time atrocities? Or are they driven by some pornographic instinct?”
The Secrets To Lighting Up The Stage
“The intensity of the colours in the new lighting is really completely different. If we were to go back 20 years, the world would look so different, lighting wise. I spend a lot of time in China and the light there is very different, so that inspires me. But I guess, like every lighting designer, most of the inspiration we get comes from the sun.”
Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, Author Of ‘The Last Lecture’
“Zaslow, a columnist and best-selling author whose books included chronicles of a dying professor’s last lecture, a pilot who landed a crippled commuter plane in the Hudson River and Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s recovery from wounds in a horrific shooting in Arizona, died on Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.”
Making More Makers – And Moving On From Marshmallow Cannons
Joey Hudy, the boy who impressed President Obama with his marshmallow cannon, is a self-identified “maker.” What’s that? “Makers start with that simple idea to do something, which is why we call it DIY – for ‘do it yourself.’ Soon, however, they find out that there are lots of people like [them] out there.”
Putting The H For History Back In Romance At The Oregon Ballet Theatre
“The upper-class ballet lovers watching the curtain go up on opening night of Giselle in 1841 were sitting on a time bomb, and they knew it.”
Director Found At Last For Sydney’s Flagship Museum
Just over a week after The Australian fussed publicly about how long it was taking the Art Gallery of New South Wales to hire a director, the museum has announced its choice for the job: Michael Brand, an Australian who was formerly director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Louisville Orchestra Offers Musicians Arbitration in Contract Dispute
“The Louisville Orchestra has issued a formal offer to its musicians to arbitrate for a resolution to the labor impasse in negotiations for a new contract.”
Anna Deavere Smith Becomes Resident Artist At A Cathedral
Last Sunday, the actress-playwright-documentarian gave her first sermon as artist-in-residence at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco; she presents a new play on the theme of grace next weekend. “Both Ms. Smith and the Very Rev. Jane Shaw, who became the cathedral’s dean last year, share a vision of bringing together art and religion, historically-linked pursuits that are sometimes at odds in modern America.”