“The strong black-and-white style used against coloured backgrounds by Occupy the Streets with its striding woman, Occupy Philly with its Liberty Bell, and Occupy Portland with its face of a young woman representing the 99%, all share the aesthetics of comic book artists such as Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns.”
Tag: 11.20.11
Take This Job And … Please? Take This Job?
The New York Philharmonic is out of luck, at least as far as executive directors are concerned. After six rejections, whom should the Phil next court?
In The Wake Of A Massacre, What’s A Crime Novelist To Do?
In Norway, writers deal with a reality worse than the imaginings of the bloodiest of crime novelists.
The Emperor Of Bananas, And His Ballet
He’s lured two of the Bolshoi’s biggest stars to his relatively unknown ballet company in St. Petersburg. Is he an example of new money ruining Russian traditions – or just into the Mikhailovsky?
Reviving The Public Art, And Artist, No One Notices Anymore
He’s the best-known artist whose name you just don’t know,” said Aimee Taberner, cochairwoman of the museum’s board of trustees. “His work is iconic. It is everywhere.” (Erm, who is he, again?)
Send In No Clowns: Sondheim’s Over Critics
“There are theatre people who claim to be immune to public criticism, and perhaps some really are, but I haven’t met any who have convinced me. “
John Neville, 86, Former Stratford Festival Director
“John Neville, O.B.E. C.M., who ran theatres on two continents, starred on stage, screen and television and could list Judi Dench, Liv Ullman and Vanessa Redgrave among his leading ladies, died in Toronto on Nov. 19 at the age of 86.”
15 Documentaries Shortlisted For The Oscars
The shortlist includes “Bill Cunningham New York,” “Buck” and “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.”
Stravinsky, Art Hipster Of L.A.
Mark Swed: “Stravinsky gave us a certain cultural credibility that the presence of no other artist in any field could match. He was our art icon.”
Jerusalem Dancers Open Curtain, Damning Religious Law
To protest prohibitions against women in public spaces, Jersualem’s last professional dance company opens back up. “No one has the right to exclude us in this way,” says the director of the company’s school. But some dancers are scared.