A formerly top-secret bunker near Sarajevo now hosts a site-specific art project. “I think this is the most expensive museum ever built in human history,” says the show’s director and organizer.
Tag: 09.04.11
A Mythic Hero Of Modern Times, For A Modern Opera
Rick Rescorla, who saved 2,700 people on 9/11 before losing his own life, gets the mythic treatment in a new opera opening in San Francisco. “It has timeless, epic themes: a warrior’s code of honor, the intense bonds of loyalty, late-found love. And it ends in a cataclysm not unlike that of ‘The Ring.’”
For Your Eyes Only: Small Cinemas In a Multiplex World
Cinemathèques keep popping up, changing the film landscape of N.Y. “The most enterprising microcinemas promise not just a film that isn’t showing anywhere else but also an experience tailored around it. Context is everything.”
A Century In The Bay: The S.F. Symphony Turns 100
“San Francisco was a music-besotted city as far back as the Gold Rush. The challenge always has been to blend that love of music with a spirit of civic endeavor.”
Anonymous Donor Makes Giant Genie, And Museum Expansion, A Reality
An anonymous donor’s $900,000 check opens the way for a massive expansion of the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati – where visitors will “walk beneath a giant genie and enter a fantasy world of American advertising straight out of yesteryear.”
Why Can’t Comic Sans Get A Date? Font Popularity In The Internet Age
“‘It was a liberating thing in the ’80s’ when it became possible to manipulate fonts with the click of a mouse. But with great power comes great responsibility … and some didn’t use their typeface forces for good. To wit: Comic Sans.”
Seeing Red, And Designing It Too
With theatres across the country mounting John Logan’s “Red,” a play about Mark Rothko, designers have to decide just what shades of the primary color to emphasize.
This Company’s Story Is As Unlikely As The Play It Performs
In Cymbeline‘s “opening scene a courtier vainly assures the audience that this play, ‘may well be laughed at,/Yet is it true’. … Fiasco Theater’s success is, like Cymbeline, something of a fairy tale. … Ben Steinfeld, a company member, said: ‘Our story is preposterous. It’s hard to believe.’ Yet it is true.”