Sure, she was married to a guy who became pretty famous, but Krasner was prodigiously talented and, long after the guy died, tenaciously working on her own space and art. – The Observer (UK)
Tag: 05.12.10
‘Private Dances’ – One-On-One Choreography In Melbourne
“Part of this year’s Next Wave Festival, [Private Dances is] a show that eschews risqué, scantily clad high-kicks in favour of a different kind of intimacy. Its promise is to offer its audience the chance to see Melbourne’s ‘next wave’ of young dancers in a unique scenario: three minutes, one-on-one, inside a tent.”
This Year’s College Cultural Touchstones
Here’s a list, as distributed by professors at Beloit College, of cultural references that students understand…
A Theatre-World Boycott Of Newsweek Over Review
“Glee” creator Ryan Murphy is urging an immediate boycott of Newsweek until the magazine apologizes to all of its gay readership for what Murphy calls a “needlessly cruel and mind-blowingly bigoted piece” by Ramin Setoodeh that seems to imply that gay actors shouldn’t be playing straight characters, a position that Murphy calls shocking and “blatantly homophobic,” in part because Setoodeh is gay himself.
Czech Philharmonic Sues Culture Minister, Threatens Strike
“One of the great state cultural institutions, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, is suing the culture minister for alleged financial mismanagement in a bitter row that has boiled over and is now threatening the city’s annual musical highlight, the Prague Spring International Music Festival.”
In London, A Festival Of One-On-One Theatre
“The festival, which will include work from around the world alongside new commissions, focuses on theatre in which there is one actor and one audience member.”
So What Exactly Is Wisdom, Anyway?
Two UC-San Diego professors reported “that while defining wisdom is subjective, there are enough similarities in definition across time and cultures to suggest that wisdom may come from just the right balance between our more primitive brain regions and our more recently developed brain functions.” Subsequently the two did a meta-study in an attempt to define the concept of wisdom.
BBC Launches Major Opera Project For Summer 2010
“Kiri Te Kanawa and Stephen Fry are to present programmes as part of a BBC season celebrating opera, which will be broadcast across TV, radio and the internet and which the Corporation claims is its biggest ever commitment to the art form. … ‘Opera on the BBC’ will span six weeks from May 17.”
In India, Trying To Win Fans Of Western Classical Music
“Despite India’s colonial past, and many attempts to establish classical roots by prominent musical figures from the Parsi community (such as the conductor Zubin Mehta), India has never taken the bait. Its own embarrassment of musical riches probably has something to do with this. … But the [London Philharmonic] is always up for a challenge.”
An Architecture Question For The Supreme Court Nominee
“So, my question to you Gen. Kagan is this: Do you support reopening the front doors of the United States Supreme Court to the people?”