“It’s an original and uncharted subject for a movie: A transgender hair-salon worker blossoms into a masked crusader who battles homophobia in Indonesia.”
Tag: 04.04.11
Arab Israeli Actor Juliano Mer Khamis Shot And Killed
“In 2006, he set up The Freedom Theatre, a drama and community centre based in the Jenin camp, where his mother had earlier worked as a peace activist running a similar project.”
Woman Punches Out Gauguin Painting At Washington’s National Gallery
“Screaming ‘This is evil,’ a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering” with her fists. (The painting itself is unharmed.)
Love Amidst The Lit: Bookstores As Dating Emporia
“There are many reasons why bookstores are naturally romantic environments: the smell of paper, the soft lighting, the baseline understanding that those inside like to read, and are therefore probably not morons. Browsing customers often circle each other like timid sharks, the piles of books in their hands their only weapons.”
The Next Jazz
“I would argue that all jazz is fusion. It’s the fusing of the Delta blues and of ragtime and of brass bands that make New Orleans music jazz. It’s the fusion of improvisation from Chicago with society orchestras in New York that creates the big band. All of jazz is a fusion. And today, jazz is a world music.”
China’s New National Museum Has Global Ambition
“With a floor area of 192,000 sq. m (2.07m sq. ft)– “a little bit bigger than the Met”, a Chinese official reminded me–the new National Museum is clearly intended to signal China’s muscular ambitions.”
Gdansk To Reconstruct 400-Year-Old Shakespearean Theatre
The Polish port city, for centuries known as Danzig, was “the site of the only Shakespearian playhouse to have been constructed outside England during the Bard’s lifetime.” In 2013, a rebuilt version of that theatre will open as the Teatr Szekspirowski, home of Gdansk’s Shakespeare Festival.
Ai Weiwei Still Missing After Arrest In Beijing
“Officers released his wife and several assistants late last night, following questioning, but Ai and a friend remain uncontactable. Assistants said that police removed more than 30 computers and hard drives from his studio and home in north Beijing on Sunday, as well as notebooks and documents.”
Andrzej Wajda To Make New Biopic Of Lech Walesa
“Poland has had a complicated relationship with Lech Walesa. The love-hate of past years, however, is danger of fading into indifference and neglect.” But Poland’s most famous filmmaker “has decided enough is enough. A jaundiced, dyspeptic, post-modernist nation will be made to look again at ‘the hero in its midst’, with a biopic recounting the Solidarity struggle.”
Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion To Be A Secret Garden
“The pavilion, which opens in July and closes in September, will take the form of a contemplative garden courtyard created by the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf, enclosed by a low-key and lightweight timber structure Zumthor plans to wrap and coat with scrim and black paste mixed with sand.”