The Frank Lloyd Wright Revival Initiative, founded by documentary filmmaker Michael Miner, plans to start with a 1911 park pavilion (demolished) that Wright designed for Banff in the Canadian Rockies. But is this a good idea?
Tag: 03.02.17
How James Cousins Learned To Work Emotion Into His Choreography
“Cousins remembers one of his teachers saying: ‘If you can incorporate some emotion into what you do, there’ll be no stopping you.’ But at that point he wasn’t sure how.” As he tells Judith Mackrell, he had a revelation while being mentored by Matthew Bourne: “I was making a solo and Matt suggested that I played with the focus of the dancer’s eyes …”
‘Breaking The Glass-Slipper Ceiling’ – Celia Fushille Marks 10 Years Running Smuin Ballet
“She’s one of nine women around the globe, from Toronto to Paris and Memphis to Miami, who head dance companies with annual budgets of $2.5 million or more.”
Hawaii Has A Word That’s Even Stranger Than Philadelphia’s ‘Jawn’
Around this time last year, Dan Nosowitz told us about the City of Brotherly Shove Love’s all-purpose word, jawn, which can stand in for any noun, abstract or concrete, proper or common. Since then, readers have alerted him to an even more flexible term, one that can function as noun, verb, adjective or adverb: da kine.
For The Country Music Industry, The Subject Of Donald Trump Is Kryptonite
With an audience that’s “polarized as f***,” Nashville has an attitude summed up by one country DJ like this: “Politics is the hottest potato around right now. I think a lot of artists are saying, ‘You know what, I’d rather not catch this son of a bitch; I’ll pass it to somebody else.'”
What Would Mark Twain Think Of Donald Trump?
Sure, it’s easy (and safe) to presume that Twain would have mocked the 45th President mercilessly. Yet, argues Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Twain would have found Trump the showman – the pre-2016 version – a fascinating figure.”
How The Hirshhorn Spent Two Years Preparing For The Yayoi Kusama Show
It’s not just that those mirrored, carefully lit Infinity Rooms are tricky to put together. There was the matter of carefully training guides and volunteers, crowd control on a scale unprecedented for this museum, and logistics for an all-white room that visitors are meant to cover with colored dots (it has to be white again by the next morning).
A Ballet School In Conservative Upper Egypt
A dancer from the Cairo Opera Ballet travels 150 miles south every weekend to teach students (some boys as well as girls) who come from up to an hour away to the Alwanat Centre in Minya.
Why “Useless” Information, Driven By Curiosity, Is So Important (Arts Parallels?)
“Driven by an ever-deepening dearth of funding, against a background of economic uncertainty, global political turmoil, and ever-shortening time cycles, research criteria are becoming dangerously skewed toward conservative short-term goals that may address more immediate problems but miss out on the huge advances that human imagination can bring in the long term. Just as in Flexner’s time, the progress of our modern age, and of the world of tomorrow, depends not only on technical expertise, but also on unobstructed curiosity and the benefits — and pleasures — of traveling far upstream, against the current of practical considerations.”
Who Gets To Be A Restaurant Critic – And Who Decides?
The young man at the heart of “The Chicken Connoisseur” – a series of YouTube reviews, using dense London slang, of fried chicken and chips places- has gone viral. He’s clearly a populist, but is that dangerous or wonderful?