An interesting trend accelerates: “The challenge to classical presenters is to find ways to widen the sensory experience of a concert without losing depth or quality of sound — a concern that takes on novel forms when cellists or clarinetists are asked to play while lying on their backs.”
Tag: 07.28.17
Artistic Director Beaten Almost To Death In Dallas Says He Survived Partly Because Of ‘Pippin’
Derek Whitener, whose brain was damaged in the savage January beating in the parking lot of a Dallas Target, couldn’t move or speak or recognize anyone. But, he says, his brain was busy thinking about how to direct certain parts of Pippen, which opened last week. “As he struggled to heal enough to leave the hospital, he thought about Pippin’s troubled journey as he searches for meaning and purpose.”
We Love Sequels So Much Even Documentaries Are Getting Them
And the sequels inevitably lend themselves to newspaper leads like this: “It could be one of this summer’s hottest sequels: In a world threatened by powerful unseen forces, one man goes on a desperate mission to save the planet. Only the star is former Vice President Al Gore.”
Photo Editor John Morris, Who Created Our Images Of WWII And Vietnam, Has Died At 100
Morris, who edited Robert Capo’s D-Day pictures and got them to Life in time for its first post-D-Day issue, was photo editor of The New York Times for six years during the Vietnam War. “He successfully argued for front-page display of Eddie Adams’s photograph of a Saigon police chief shooting a suspected Vietcong insurgent in the head. It appeared as the lead picture on Feb. 2, 1968, and became one of the most indelible images to emerge from the war.”
The Film Made From Long-Lost Canadian Yukon Stories
There’s a wild story about how this was buried for decades, and also about “the route the footage took from building site to the Canadian national archives in Ottawa – transported by a Hercules military aircraft after civilian courier firms refused to deliver what they considered dangerously flammable material.”
What It Was Like To Take Photos That Went Viral (Before Viral Was A Thing)
Photographer Graciela Iturbide: “It’s very strange, no? That image is no longer mine. In Juchitán there is now a sculpture of her based on that photo. It has appeared as graffiti. There are murals. In Juchitán, she is like a saint. ‘Our Lady of the Iguanas’ is part of daily life.”
New York Developers Fight To Get Name Artists To Make Work For Their New Condo Projects
“New residential developments across the city are installing significant works by artists both emerging and established in outdoor plazas, lobbies, common spaces and model units. Where developers previously battled over big-name architects and all-out amenity spaces, from pet spas to hamams, many are now turning their attention to outsize art projects.”
Study: Alcohol Can Boost Creativity
It reports that, while moderate inebriation doesn’t boost your ability to generate innovative ideas, it can help you avoid one major barrier to creative breakthroughs: getting stuck in a mental rut.
Mariinsky Ballet Names Xander Parish Principal Dancer
The 31-year-old Briton “was confirmed last night as only the second foreigner [ever] to be promoted to the top tier of the company, which was previously known as the Kirov.”