Lost Horizon Night Market is “a nocturnal art carnival making its fifth appearance in New York, where trucks transform into interactive dioramas, small theaters for sublime and bizarre entertainments. If Joseph Cornell were alive today and a performance artist, he might invent something like this.”
Tag: 04.24.11
Royal Ballet On The Cusp Of Change
“Should we call this the globalization of ballet? On paper, this spectrum of backgrounds looks too hybrid to make any one company style possible. In performance, though, there’s still a multifaceted Royal Ballet style.”
Writer Accuses NYPublic Library Of Mishandling Archives
“In a move that has turned scholarly heads, Paul Brodeur, a former investigative reporter for The New Yorker, who donated thousands of pages of his work to the library, is demanding that the papers be returned. He claims that an institution renowned for its careful stewardship of historical documents has badly mishandled his.”
The Met Opera’s Music-Director-In-Waiting?
Fabio Luisi is “clearly the heir apparent, and many signs point to a Metropolitan Opera someday under his baton. That would be an epochal changing of the guard.”
BBC Under Scrutiny, Attack
“The BBC seems at times to be an all-purpose whipping boy, an easy target for casual joking and at times naked derision from the country’s political establishment.”