“[His] stylistic evolution from vibrant, Cubist-inspired abstractions to Color Field canvases made him one of the least definable members of the second-generation Abstract Expressionists, … and his work – kinetic, calligraphic dashes of primary colors in his early career, and subtle pastels beginning in the 1970s – often flirted with figuration.”
Tag: 10.13.10
Why the Booker Is the Best of the Annual Literary Prizes
Laura Miller: “The most important factor in the Booker’s success is the diversity of its judges. This year’s panel included a dancer, a broadcaster and an author.” Meanwhile, the fiction Pulitzer winner is chosen by a board of journalism poo-bahs, and the National Book Award jurists are working writers, who “are rarely disinterested in their evaluations of their closest peers.”
New US Company Focuses on Opera in Spanish
Marketer and former tenor Daniel Frost Hernandez has founded the New York-based company Opera Hispanica to perform and promote both Hispanic singers and the growing number of music-dramas written in Spanish.
Even Robots Have Ethnic Characteristics
“People building social robots in the West and in Japan are interested in ending up with two very different types of machines … Western robots are engineered to more explicitly express emotion, while those from Japan are generally as expressive as the masks worn by actors in traditional Japanese Noh plays.”
Eek! Bedbugs Infest Lincoln Center!
“According to an October 8 email that just came across our desk, Lincoln Center has had an outbreak of bedbugs in the dressing rooms at the David H. Koch Theater,” home to New York City Ballet and New York City Opera.
Ambitious Public Radio News Plans: 100 Reporters In Each City?
Expand regional “public media” news operations to 100 reporters and editors per market in four to six markets — and soon. That’s “public radio” grown into “public media”, meaning that these news operations would be digital-first, text-heavy and video-ready, while porting over the audio from radio.
Direct To Broadway – Musicals Flying Without Out-Of-Town Tryouts
“The four multimillion-dollar musicals are all leaping to Broadway without a net because of their creators’ confidence in the material and, to varying degrees, skepticism that a tryout elsewhere is useful anymore. The Internet has made it impossible to fly under the radar at theaters in La Jolla or Seattle.”
A Revolution In Movie Theatre Sound?
“A German software firm is promoting a system that it hopes will do for film audio what 3-D has done for video. With up to 128 speakers, it offers a more immersive experience but is costly for theater operators and movie makers.”
American Newspapers Pull Muhammad Cartoon
“By killing the panel the newspapers fell into the very kind of timidity or conflict aversion that the cartoon had intended to expose. A mildly provocative image that would have slipped quickly into obscurity instead has won a second life, more powerful and ironic by its initial absence.”
Can LA’s KCET Be Better After Split From PBS?
“A healthy, productive and engaged local television station would be a marvelous thing — miraculous, even, in the current broadcast climate. Imagine a real alternative to the gruesome joke that is local TV news, or local children’s programming physically available to local children.”