“Artists including Turner Prize winners Chris Ofili and Mark Wallinger are working with renowned choreographers such as Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon on the venture which takes three paintings by Renaissance master Titian as its inspiration.
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New York’s Path-Breaking World Music Impresario Moves On
At age 70, World Music Institute founder Robert Browning “is retiring, having had a crucial influence on the musical life of New York. Fellow arts presenters, musicians and critics are unanimous in praising his efforts to help spread the cause of traditional world music nationwide.”
Massive Cuts In UK Art School Funding Will Impact Next Gen Artists
“Art schools are the lifeblood of Britain’s arts scene, training painters, sculptors and conceptual artists, many of whom, like Damien Hirst (who studied at Leeds College of Art, and London’s Goldsmiths) and Tracey Emin (Maidstone Art College and the Royal College of Art), go on to have major international reputations.”
How Important Is It To Understand Opera?
“What if the technology that enables us to enjoy surtitles, which most opera companies now use all over the world, had been available to Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Mozart?Would they have still preferred their operas to be sung in the language of the audience, or would they have made other choices?”
A Hundred Years Of Italy (And It Still Doesn’t Work)
“There has long been a feeling in Italy that the project of national unity was flawed from the start, and will never work satisfactorily–that the country’s government will always be stalled, and the south forever the unmanageable territory of organized crime.”
Eiko And Koma Moving (Barely)
Eiko and Koma are not so much a dance duo as an arts organization. She writes; he paints, etc.