At the Trisha Brown Dance Company, keeping her work going will “require well-versed experts to convey Ms. Brown’s precision physicality and use of gravity to enhance basic movements, such as bending, stretching and rotating. Nothing about it is simple, say her supporters, and it needs careful preservation to survive.”
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The Legal Troubles Of The Brothers Who Are Antique World Stars
“Their behavior in recent months has been oddly out of sync with their stature as antique world luminaries. A buying spree this spring left them with nearly $600,000 in debt and spurred legal action from two auction houses. More bizarrely, in several instances during one auction, the brothers, who are partners in at least one business, bid against each other. Their competing efforts sent the price of routine items soaring.”
Where Is This Election Year’s Shepard Fairey?
“As the 2016 campaign season enters the nominating stage — the Republican National Convention opens on Monday in Cleveland; the Democratic National Convention follows the next week in Philadelphia — no image even approaching the power or reach of Mr. Fairey’s poster has emerged.”
Wonder Woman Needed A Woman To Direct It, Says Its Star, And Here’s Why
“For a long time, people didn’t know how to approach the story. When Patty and I had our creative conversations about the character, we realized that Diana can still be a normal woman, one with very high values, but still a woman. She can be sensitive. She is smart and independent and emotional. She can be confused. She can lose her confidence. She can have confidence. She is everything. She has a human heart.”
Grafitti Bombing With The Artists In Hong Kong
“The main mission of the night was to paint a highway spot. I quickly lost track of where we were as we drove through canyons of high-rises and tangles of highways, occasionally glancing a prominent throw-up or a tag on a roadside structure.”
Theatre’s (Not-So-) Hidden Power Couple
“We were both winning awards, but we couldn’t come to each other’s [ceremonies] to celebrate each other.”
Top Posts On AJBlogs For 07.17.16
The Future of Orchestras, Part III: Bruckner, Palestrina, and the Rolling Stones
“Would the New York Philharmonic sing Palestrina?” – the question posed by my … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-07-17
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-07-17
Dancing With Your Selves
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer present the New York premieres of two works. Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman(s) in their Voyeur. Photo: Tyler Silver One source of theater’s magic lies in the interplay between what’s … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-07-17
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer present the New York premieres of two works. Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman(s) in their Voyeur. Photo: Tyler Silver One source of theater’s magic lies in the interplay between what’s … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-07-17
Twyla Tharp: Past, Present, Future
Twyla Tharp presents one new creation and two golden oldies at the Joyce. Reed Tankersley in the first half of Twyla Tharp’s Brahms Paganini. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu Watching Reed Tankersley perform the long opening solo … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-07-16
Twyla Tharp presents one new creation and two golden oldies at the Joyce. Reed Tankersley in the first half of Twyla Tharp’s Brahms Paganini. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu Watching Reed Tankersley perform the long opening solo … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2016-07-16
Stainspotting
It’s the pale grey sweaters that are so creepy. Thin, tight, high necked, they cling to the performers’ bodies. They’re nubbled by nipple and you can practically count the ribs. And, within minutes of …read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-07-15
It’s the pale grey sweaters that are so creepy. Thin, tight, high necked, they cling to the performers’ bodies. They’re nubbled by nipple and you can practically count the ribs. And, within minutes of …read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-07-15
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Our Don’t-Miss Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal: Musical Prime Minister Edition
This week: A penetrating portrait of artist Chuck Close, a reality check on meritocracy as a concept, a look at anger and our access to visceral emotion in a media-saturated world, the enduring meritocracy of the Emmy as measure of success, and a Prime Minister exits stage right, humming.
This Week In Audience: Audience Confusion Editon
This Week: Pokemon Go suggests a different relationship between real and virtual, an art prize in which critics don’t matter, museums challenge visitors to spot fakes, a French city that has reinvented itself around art, and a claim that modern audiences are confused and uncertain.
Summer Camp For The Conductors Of Tomorrow
“Adding a conducting program seemed a natural way for [the Eastern Music Festival] to expand beyond training 200-plus young instrumentalists in classical orchestral and chamber music.”