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Tag: 06.19.11
The Real-Life Vagabond Behind The Play Jerusalem
“Mark Rylance’s star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth’s play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwright.”
Did The Royal Ballet Play Too Safe In Choosing Its New Director?
Luke Jennings: “In [outgoing head Monica] Mason, … the Royal has enjoyed 10 years of safe, conservative leadership. This was the moment for an appointment that would seize the imagination of the public and the wider art world.” The actual choice, Kevin O’Hare, “currently the company’s administrative director, is a famously nice guy …”
Unknown Caravaggio Unearthed In UK
“The oil on canvas depiction of Saint Augustine, an expressive, mature work dated to around 1600 … has been discovered in a private collection in Britain.”
Joyce DiDonato Shames Kansas Over Elimination Of Arts Funding
In a special column in her hometown newspaper, the star mezzo writes, “This is the Sunflower State that I have proudly boasted about across the world, fearlessly defending it even in the face of harsh quizzical looks from the most skeptical of folks (‘You live where?‘). … Now, for the first time, I feel shame.”
Lullaby: The Play Where They Want The Audience To Fall Asleep
The London theatre collective called Duckie – “renowned for raucous, boozy cabaret nights at its residency space at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in Vauxhall – had never really had audiences of their own nodding off. What if they tried to encourage it?
Peter Zumthor Insists He Is Down-To-Earth, Not Mystical
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect “may be white-bearded and dark-clad and his office, in a secluded spot outside the Swiss town of Chur, may take the form of a cloister around a garden … and he may like to talk of such things as the ‘mystery’ of materials. But at the suggestion he might be otherworldly, he becomes vehement.”
‘Why We Love Magritte’: Eight Artists Explain
Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam, artist John Baldessari, director Edward Hall, and five others “with an eye for the peculiar reveal why they love the witty Belgian surrealist.”
What Should Mayor Rahm Emanuel Do For Chicago Arts?
The Tribune asked a dozen “of Chicago’s savviest cultural players to answer three questions: What would you most like to see happen culturally in Chicago in the next six months? How would you measure success six months from now? What’s the biggest change you hope will have taken effect four years from now?”
Giant Clock In Mecca Revives Debate About A Worldwide Time Standard
The Arabian answer to Big Ben proposes to set, at least for Muslims, a worldwide standard based on sun time in Mecca (about 21 minutes off Greenwich-based time zones). “[In] fact, consensus on world standard time isn’t much more than a century old – and was the subject of protest right from the beginning.”