“An NYU professor triggered a debate about campus privacy in November when he decided to implant a camera in the back of his head for a year-long art project. Now the professor, Wafaa Bilal, faces a much bigger obstacle than students who might not want their pictures taken. His body is rejecting part of the implanted device.”
Tag: 02.07.11
Miami City Ballet to Make Paris Debut
“The troupe announced Monday that it will cap off its 25th season in July by performing for the first time in Paris. The company will have a three-week season at one of the French capital’s major venues, the Theatre du Chatelet, for its annual Summers of Dance Festival.”
Michael Cunningham’s Ultimate Problem With His Work
“Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I’m finishing, even if it’s turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind.”
Kansas Governor Abolishes State Arts Commission
“Gov. Sam Brownback signed an executive order Monday abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission and replacing it with a private, nonprofit organization. The move will save the cash-strapped state nearly $600,000 a year,” out of a $500 million budget deficit.
Seeing Fonteyn, and Knowing What Makes Dance Great
“There was one moment when she rested her head gently on her prince’s shoulder, a pose at once trusting and terrified. She seemed made of flesh and other-worldly, an enchanted princess, a swan and a breathing woman all in the same instant. It was the first time I fully understood the power of dance to convey truth without words, to be at once real and unreal.”
David Hare on His Influence on British Theatre
“It says on the literature that I am one of the most influential post-war playwrights. I would have billed myself as one of the least influential in the sense that I don’t think anyone else wants to do … what I am trying to do, which is to make a modern myth out of quasi documentary theatre.”
Cleveland Orchestra Hires A Critic-In-Residence
Enrique Fernandez said the orchestra is trying to go beyond a monolithic institutional voice and to embrace the dynamic possibilities for give-and-take offered by the web. “Online brings a whole new dimension to things. It’s an acknowledgment of that that prompted the orchestra to foster the discussion, to stimulate a community who goes to concerts and wants to write something about it.”
Judge Halts Construction on Gehry’s New Paris Cultural Complex
A Paris court has issued an order “to stop building work on [Gehry’s] ‘Cloud’, a stunning, €100 million glass-covered complex in western Paris. The ethereal, multifaceted building was due to house a cultural centre owned by France’s richest man, Bernard Arnaud, along with his extensive contemporary art collection and that of his company LVMH.”
Fire Devastates Rio’s Main Samba School Complex
“Monday’s fire ravaged part of Samba City, a six-year-old complex of workshops and warehouses in Rio that serves as the preparation ground for the city’s [Carnival] parades [next month] … Three samba schools – out of the 12 using the facility – saw most of their stocks of costumes and floats and props wiped out by the flames.”
Getty Trust and LACMA Jointly Acquire Mapplethorpe Archive
“The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust … [have] jointly acquired a huge collection of the prints, negatives and letters of Robert Mapplethorpe … The acquisition is the first time the two institutions have collected works of art to share.”