“Architects and journalists had warned me beforehand that he was brittle, opportunist, slick at escaping blame. There was a refrain that he was played out, that he had lost his way with bling projects in bling places.”
Tag: 2012
The Demons Of Dancer Sergei Polunin
The Ukranian dancer who simply up and left England’s Royal Ballet in January finally talks about what happened – and why he had to go.
Did MoMA’s Famous ‘Family of Man’ Exhibit Squash Dissent – Or Promote It?
“In totalitarian countries, they argued, mass media delivered propaganda
messages directly from the mouths of dictators; as a result, they undermined their
citizens’ abilities to reason and transformed them into automatons. When Steichen
and his team designed ‘The Family of Man,’ they sought to build a media environment that would have the opposite effect.”
Which Musical Instrument Is The Best? (Can This Question Possibly Be Answered?)
“Take a look, if you have the strength, at the 12,000 entries in the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1985). Then consider that the next edition will have 20,000. The standard symphony orchestra, parading a mere 14 or 15 varieties of instrument, begins to look as limited as a supermarket cheese counter.”
Cate Blanchett, Theatre Boss (Even When She Leaves Her Artistic Director Post)
“‘I was hoping you’d come later in the week.’ It’s a curious thing to hear from someone who has five Academy Award nominations, and who took an Oscar home for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. But this is theatre, and Blanchett, like any stage actor before press night, doesn’t quite know how it will go.”