“For years, the Second City struggled to make it onto the list of Top 5 American dance cities. Milwaukee boasted a bigger ballet company. But no more.”
Tag: 01.09.11
Gardner Museum Restores In Search Of Masterpiece
“The Gardner Museum is notorious for having, among its dozens of superb treasures, many pictures bought by Isabella Gardner in the belief that they were autograph paintings by recognized masters, but which turned out to be copies or fakes.”
To Solve The Biggest Problems? Think Small
“What works — especially for the largest, most intractable problems — are little deals we can make now. And, indeed, if you look at the recent successes in international cooperation, they have all involved modest agreements: the eradication of smallpox, restraint in use of nuclear weapons, protection of some endangered species, worldwide bans on some harmful chemicals.”
Britain’s Best Young Architects
“These young architects can’t be expected to take on all the economic forces that surround them. Their overwhelming desire is to do stuff and to do it in a way that anyone, whether in Littlehampton, Alabama, Hastings or Peckham, can enjoy. It’s not a bad way to start.”
The Prediction Experts – They’re Usually Wrong
“The people who successfully predict extreme events, and are duly garlanded with accolades, big book sales, and lucrative speaking engagements, don’t do so because their judgment is so sharp. They do it because it’s so bad.”
Choreography Funder Tries To Fill The Gaps
“New Essential Works, which finances the development of new dances, was created by the Jerome Robbins Foundation in the fall of 2009 in response to the financial crisis. Allen Greenberg and Daniel Stern, a trustees at the foundation, and Christopher Pennington, its executive director, were concerned about the prospect of a lost period of choreography.”
“Black Swan” – A Cautionary Tale?
“The film’s director, Darren Aronofsky, might have set out to make a thriller, but for the dance community, the chills come from the unsettling topics he laid bare: the blind pursuit of perfection, the anorexia and bulimia to achieve a fat-free swanlike figure, the sexual abuse of fragile ingénues.”
John Cage, Reconsidered
“Cage’s whole career was a movement toward giving up control, toward creating a music that might be representative of the tension between form and chaos. Such a progression, however, required nearly constant upheaval.”
Harry Potter Gives Disney Theme Park A Run For Its Money
“The unexpected, turbocharged success of the $265 million Potter playland has not only given a new bounce to Ms. Rowling’s literary creation, it has also ignited Florida’s version of the Jets versus the Giants: a friendly hometown rivalry between Universal and Walt Disney World.”