The headline of John Marin’s New York Times obituary described him as “Artist Considered by Many as ‘America’s No. 1 Master.’ ” So why does Mr. Marin so often get the “John Who?” treatment?
Tag: 08.05.11
My Portrait – Paint It Ugly. Paint It Bulbous!
“Today, portraits may be deliberately ugly, filled with palpable angst or defiantly abstract. The works are more about scouring the psychological depths or playing with the concept of portraiture than about illustrating a patron’s smooth likeness. These portraits reflect a shift in the power dynamic between collectors and artists.”
Another Top Administrator Leaves NY City Opera
“The music staff of the New York City Opera continues to dwindle. Kevin Murphy, a widely respected vocal coach, said on Thursday that he would leave his position as the company’s director of music administration to take a faculty post at … Indiana University.”
In San Francisco, Classical Music Hits The Bar Scene
“While classical music performances in nontraditional spaces are nothing new — the Kronos Quartet played weekly concerts in a Mill Valley restaurant as far back as 1978 — such events have proliferated in the last decade. Lately, it has been hard to go anywhere in the Bay Area without stumbling across a wind ensemble essaying John Adams in an art gallery or a string quartet playing Beethoven in a wine bar.”
How Balanchine Liberated Men In Ballet
Mr. B. may or may not have actually said, “Ballet is woman,” but he thought that way. (Sometimes, teaching class, he’d forget the men were there.) “But when Balanchine made dances for men, the picture changed. … And many of those Balanchine roles for men were without precedent or equal.”