“Look at a portrait of Lucinda Childs’s face … and you get a portrait of her choreography: a clear, no-frills beauty; sharp intelligence that’s a little unreadable; great underlying structure.”
Tag: 10.18.11
Paris Syndrome (It’s Nothing Like Stockholm Syndrome Or Jerusalem Syndrome)
This summer the French capital saw at least 20 cases of “a serious disorder that causes tourists, especially Japanese tourists, many problems on their trip through the City of Light.” Common symptoms include “acute delusions, hallucinations, dizziness, sweating, and feelings of persecution.”
Forget Occupy Wall Street – Save The Surfing Madonna!
“She appeared on Good Friday [of 2011] beneath a railway bridge in the California beach town of Encinitas: the Virgin of Guadalupe calmly surfing a cobalt blue wave, her cloak pointing toward the words ‘SAVE THE OCEAN’.” For complicated reasons, the town government didn’t want the mosaic to stay, and it’s gone now – though it may soon reappear.
Who Owns The Henry Moore Outside London’s Parliament Building?
No one is taking responsibility for the bronze, which is badly discoloured and covered with incised graffiti. “It is the most damaged Moore that I have seen on display in Britain,” says Moore specialist John-Paul Stonard.
British Parliament Debates Dance Education
“MPs debated dance in education last week in response to universities minister David Willetts’ suggestion that A level dance should be given fewer points than “classic” subjects in the university admissions process earlier this year.”
Conclusive: Studies Say No To Babies And Glowing Screens
“Three studies since 1999 have tracked educational television use and language development, and they found a link between increased TV time and developmental delays.”
Pixar’s Creative Chief Talks About His Studio’s First Bad Reviews
“One negatively reviewed film” – Cars 2 – “especially one that goes on to become a megahit, isn’t enough to scratch the Pixar brand. But the commentary did dent morale at the studio, which until then had enjoyed an unbroken and perhaps unprecedented run of critical acclaim.”
New York Update Of The Seagull Headed For Screen
Relative Insanity “will update Chekhov’s play to the present day and relocate the action from the Russian countryside to the Hamptons in upstate [sic] New York.” David Duchovny, Helen Hunt, Maggie Grace, Joan Chen and John Davidson star.
Lost Eugene O’Neill Play Published In New Yorker
“The one-act play, entitled Exorcism, was staged in March 1920 by the Provincetown Players, but, according to The New Yorker‘s theatre critic John Lahr, O’Neill destroyed what he believed to be every copy of the play in order to save his father, celebrated romantic actor James O’Neill, embarrassment after a stroke.” (Online, the play is behind The New Yorker‘s paywall.)
Artists Sue Christie’s And Sotheby’s For ‘Resale Royalties’
“What do New York painter Chuck Close, L.A. artist Laddie John Dill and the estate of L.A. sculptor Robert Graham have in common? They are lead plaintiffs in a pair of class-action lawsuits filed Tuesday against the New York operations of Sotheby’s and Christie’s, alleging that the auction houses violated the California Resale Royalty Act.”