“In recent times, theatergoers expecting a musical revival have frequently gotten a ‘revisal.’ It’s not simply that the libretto has been updated in the name of appealing to contemporary audiences or that … offensive dialogue [has] been expunged. It’s that the performers have been belting out numbers [that] weren’t part of the score the first time around.”
Tag: 04.21.10
At New York City Opera, Reason For Optimism
Unlike its fall season, New York City Opera’s spring season wasn’t a “must-see affair,” but “over the course of the three stagings, there were signs that somebody has good artistic instincts.”
Artist Doug Aitken Rethinks Hirshhorn Museum Gift Shop
The shop, currently in the lobby, will be relocated to the basement, so Aitken has called “for a broad shaft to be pierced through the museum’s Independence Avenue forecourt…. Aitken hopes his light-filled basement space will function as ‘a personal sanctuary, where you can get lost.’ This is hardly the model most museums use when considering their shops.”
Site Lists 21K Works Of ‘Degenerate’ Art Seized By Nazis
“The Web site, the result of eight years of research by art historians at [Berlin’s Free University], includes works by Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It gives details of the museums they were seized from and their current location, in cases where it is known and where the work wasn’t destroyed.”
NY State Theater Institute Accused Of Corruption And Fraud
“An obscure upstate theater group that receives far more state aid than any of New York’s world-renowned cultural institutions is rife with corruption, mismanagement, nepotism and possibly illegal conduct, according to a scathing report released on Tuesday by the state inspector general’s office.”
‘Condom Architecture’: Covering Buildings In High-Tech Sheaths
A trio of Australian architects proposes “to sheath the conveniently plug-ugly 1960s Broadway Tower at Sydney’s University of Technology with a kind of high-tech negligée that glows in the dark – ‘a transparent cocoonthat acts as a high-performance micro-climate, generates energy with photovoltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting’ [and more …]”
Torn Picasso, Repaired, Goes Back On The Wall At The Met
“It’s virtually impossible to tell that on a January afternoon a woman taking an adult education class accidentally fell into the canvas, causing a six-inch vertical tear along the lower right-hand corner.” Now, however, “The Actor” is protected behind plexiglass.