It’s about having a different relationship that goes where the audience is…
Tag: 05.16.10
San Francisco Jazz Wakes Up
“Clichés about jazz’s being a dying art form — the province of a generation reminiscing about the “good old days” of smoky clubs in the Fillmore district and North Beach — linger in the Bay Area. And, as is the case elsewhere around the country, the local jazz vista isn’t what it once was.” But things are looking up…
Starchitect Takes On The Theatre
“Architects working in the theater is not unheard of, but it isn’t common, either. But it is a rarity for rich and famous architects such as Santiago Calatrava, who works in a jet-set world of big budgets and tight schedules, to spend serious time designing for the ephemeral forms of theater, dance or opera.”
New Dynamic Duo Lights Up Boston’s Contemporary Art Scene
“In January, Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, lured Helen Molesworth, curator of contemporary art at Harvard Art Museum, to head up the ICA’s programming. The two make an unlikely duo — more Abbott and Costello than Thelma and Louise.”
New Fighting Over Brandeis’ Rose Museum
“After months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the battle over the Rose Art Museum is again going public”
Will HBO’s ‘Treme’ Change The Way We Think About Jazz?
“Treme” — named for America’s oldest black neighborhood, in New Orleans — stands to alter America’s perception of a music long marginalized in our popular culture. Until now.”
Is Gustavo Dudamel Overrated?
“There’s no question he is inordinately talented, a brilliant and inspiring podium dervish who can get an orchestra to do anything he wishes while lifting an audience out of its seats. Even so, there sometimes appears to be a disconnect between the musical ends and the means he employs to achieve them. Half-formed interpretative ideas betray a lack of musical depth. The problem is not so much one of faulty instincts as where and how he channels those instincts.”
New French Pompidou Causes An Architectural Stir
“The new Pompidou Center art museum in the eastern French city of Metz has generated a big buzz in the architecture world, largely for its complex freeform roof. When it opened to the public last week, the strange and arresting building likely overshadowed the Picassos, Dalis and Warhols it is exhibiting.”
Just How Do You Value Creativity?
“Think not just of written words but of images, artworks, videos, songs, craft how-to pages and on and on. Surely it’s the case that never before have so many creators offered so much to so many for $0. A result, in effect, is a gift glut.”
How Israeli Choreographer Hofesh Shechter Became Big In Britain
“My work is not finished until there is an audience watching. I absolutely insist on that. It is a ceremony, and the ceremony is made for the audience. It’s made up of the energy that is bouncing back and forth between the stage and the audience. It is a primitive thing that has been going on ever since theatre was first invented.