“The Medici recognized the value of a physical space that would demonstrate their position and power: the Palazzo Medici, a domineering Renaissance palace, commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici in the 1440s, was where it all began.”
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Reimagining Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ With Enormous South African Puppets
“The dragon of this production has a wingspan of 33 feet, and weighs in at 440 pounds. … The beast has three manipulators – one inside the body, one in the head, and it’s walking and flicking its ears and opening its mouth and has teeth. … Dubbed Firebird: Reimagined, the piece receives its live-orchestra world premiere at the Mann [Center in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park] on July 20, … [and] it will move on to Wolf Trap, Ravinia, the Hollywood Bowl, and other summer venues.”
This Woman Has 20 Tony Award Nominations
And no wins. “Greenwood received her first nomination back in 1965,” and her most recent this year for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
The Most Important Art In The … Galaxy?
“Which images from our age will endure? Will they be Turner prize-winning artworks, or will they be pictures such as those taken by the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which launched in 2009 and over the next four years collected the first light in the universe?”
The One And Only Beet-Farming Asian American Yellowstone Painter
“Most of the year, Montana presents a nearly monochromatic landscape: white in winter, brown in summer, with a bright green moment in late spring. Raised on that sober palette, Harry Koyama is wanton in his use of color. His bears are red. His bison glow golden.”
Hollywood, Why Are You So Ignorant About Girls?
“There’s a silver lining to all this: With more alternative forms of film and TV release available, there are myriad options to showcase independent work. To compete in the children’s movie market, big studios may need an action-adventure spectacle with merchandise; but HBO and Netflix could do for children’s programming what they’ve already done for grown-up shows.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.12.16
Let’s Change to The Positive At the Met–Something “Divine”
Flash back to 1984, and to this excerpt from an article–no, a brief, really, which in itself says something–in The New York Times: Also of interest this week: ”The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and… …read more
AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2016-06-12
Sunday With Adams And Shorter
This morning’s cycling expedition took me across a freeway overpass whose height allowed a perfect view of Mount Adams sixty miles to the southwest. When I decided to share it with you, I wondered what… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-06-12
Once Upon a Time. . .
American Ballet Theater mounts Alexei Ratmansky’s The Golden Cockerel. It occasionally happens that a ballet from another era comes to us tangled in its own history, even as it tries to make sense of… … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-06-11
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The Tonys: Who Won, Who Cried, Who Told Their Story?
“First-time Tonys host James Corden began the night with a message for the Orlando victims: ‘Your tragedy is our tragedy. Theater is a place where every race, creed, sexuality, and gender is equal, embraced, and loved. Hate will never win.'”
When A Nonfiction Book Goes Rogue (And Becomes A Novel)
“The process of editing was so different as well, because when I’m writing my nonfiction books I’m quite open to it, but of course it’s very different when it’s a story that you’ve invented. When someone’s saying: “I’m not quite sure why”, you think: do I want to clarify that or is that telling me that I need to deepen the mystery around it?”
Here Are A Few (Hamil)Tony Live Coverage To Follow
There’s Playbill, of course, and here are more:
The Broadway Black Twitter account
And here, Heavy.com shows you how to watch the Tonys for free online (though basically, Twitter can easily fill you in on anything at all).