“[G]rand masters like Renzo Piano and Norman Foster as well as emerging stars like Norway’s Snohetta and London-based Tanzanian designer David Adjaye” are among those being considered, alongside “Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Steven Holl, and Mexican architect Enrique Norton.”
Tag: 03.16.10
NY City Center To Begin $75M Renovation
The two-phase project – designed by Polshek Partnership Architects and planned for the warmer months of the next two years – will expand the ground-floor lobby, add restrooms, install a sprung-wood stage floor for dance, improve seating and sightlines, and restore much of the building’s neo-Moorish décor.
Mastering A New Met Production In Two Days
Marlis Petersen, the Ophelia in the new Metropolitan Opera staging of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, was engaged for the part only a few weeks ago, after Natalie Dessay withdrew due to injury. The problem: she was singing Medea in a challenging world premiere in Vienna until the Saturday morning before opening night.
Colorado Ballet Cuts Back For 50th Anniversary Season
“Artistic director Gil Boggs doesn’t try to sugarcoat the Colorado Ballet’s just-announced lineup for its 50th-anniversary season in 2010-11: It’s nothing like what he originally intended.”
Do Stage Critics Look Down On Musicals? Not At All
London stage veteran Sheila Hancock has just called British theatre folk and critics “snooty” about big West End musicals. “I beg to differ,” says Michael Billington, who says many of his colleagues are big fans and that he “was reared on the genre.” They’re just snooty about what gets onto West End stages these days.
How Will The Decline Of Print Journalism Affect Crazy Newspaper Hoarders?
The Onion News Network addresses another of the serious issues of our time. (And how will we make papier-mâché piñatas? Think of the children …)
Stratocasters And Zebra Finches
An installation at the Barbican’s Curve gallery features a set of microphoned guitars and cymbals being “played” by a flock of zebra finches who flit about and perch on the instruments.
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Explained
“Like Cuba itself, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which [Alicia] Alonso founded and still rules, is utterly distinctive: it fields world-class dancers at the same time as remaining culturally isolated from the wider ballet world.” (With video.)
Rating Art: The Best Approach To Criticism?
“In fact, in all the interviews with and biographies of great artists I have read, this is how they talk about art. The truth is that overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, carries its own dangers.”
MPAA Head: Protecting Content Is Studios’ No. 1 Concern
Digital content is “available in [people’s] homes, and they feel it’s theirs,” outgoing MPAA chairman Dan Glickman said. “Our job has been to try to educate people that in fact it’s not theirs, unless there’s some form or system for paying for it. At the same time, it’s our responsibility to provide it in ways that are easily accessible and at reasonable prices.”