“Karina Sarkissova, 27, an award-winning prima ballerina at the Vienna State Opera, was dismissed when pictures of her dancing nude were published in local magazines. The Russian-born dancer retaliated by revealing that Manuel Legris, the ballet’s director, posed for erotic art photographs in the 1980s with both male and female dance partners at the Paris Opera.”
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The Over-Achieving Artist
“A handful of artists have done significant work in more than one field, and their ability to do so without apparent strain is one of the enduring mysteries of art.”
Cable’s Original Series’ Changing The Ways TV Is Made
“Once the province of reruns and sports, basic-cable networks will spend an estimated $23 billion on 1,462 original programs (including reality shows and specials), compared with $14 billion on 863 shows in 2005.”
Mark Morris, 2.0
“Mark Morris’s choreography appears to be going through a seismic shift. The musicality he’s renowned for is there, but it’s less in-your-face step-for-note and more organic, rising from the score like vapor.”
Why Is the Royal Ballet Dancing in Tokyo But Not Birmingham?
David Lister: “First, the company simply has to tour in the UK. As money going to the arts is scrutinised as never before, what justification can there be for our premier dance company never being seen live by British audiences outside of London?”
Bosnia Revokes Angelina Jolie’s Permit to Shoot Film There
“[A]fter word began to circulate that the film [Jolie has written and is directing] would depict not only the rape of a Bosnian Muslim woman by a Serb but also a romance between the two, a backlash erupted.”
Takashi Murakami’s Work Fits In Perfectly at Versailles
“It is the extravagant [palace] setting in which his psychedelic creations make most sense; where a plastic mushroom with a multi-million price tag seems, well, at home.”
Tate Modern’s Sunflower Seeds Cordoned Off for ‘Health and Safety’ Reasons
“Chinese artist Ai Weiwei carpeted the floor of the Turbine Hall with 100 million porcelain seeds and invited the public to walk across them.” Or even roll around in them. But all those people crunchng against all those seeds stirred up an awful lot of porcelain dust – stirring up, in turn, an awful lot of concern about breathing all that dust in.
How to Create Buzz for a Movie?
“[Sociologist Brian] Uzzi’s answer should strike fear into studio executives’ hearts: He found virtually no relationship between levels of pre-release buzz and the ad budget of the movie or the presence of highly paid actors, even if millions of dollars were spent.”
Alexander McCall Smith on Overabundant Adjectives
“Nobody uses large numbers of adjectives when they think, and I believe that writing which one cannot actually think can very easily look wrong on the page.”