“A student of Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg, Kirchner was a fiercely independent composer who never adopted the twelve-tone technique although his music was rigorously chromatic and atonal.”
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Meanwhile, Tate Plans London’s First Major Gauguin Show In 50 Years
“‘Gaugin: Maker of Myth’ will bring together more than 100 works from public and private collections worldwide and trace how he pioneered modernism with his radical, bold images.” Also on tap is a major Henry Moore retrospective.
Product Placement: British TV Producers Love The Idea
Says one exec: “Bringing money into drama is an absolute necessity. Product placement is an absolute necessity. It is about time. It is really good for us.” Of course, the producers want to control how the placement is done.
Want To Improve Your Brainpower? Read Kafka
“Research from psychologists [on the West Coast] claims to show that exposure to surrealism” – such as Kafka’s story “The Country Doctor,” which was used in the study – “enhances the cognitive mechanisms which oversee implicit learning functions.”
In China, Ballet Audiences Flock To Good Old-Fashioned Propaganda
“Turning 50 this year, the National Ballet of China is showing its range with a slew of imported and original performances such as Swan Lake and Raise the Red Lantern, but what audiences crave are the ballets born during the company’s heady first decade,” such as the still-popular Red Detachment of Women.
Las Chicas Doradas – The Golden Girls To Get Spanish-Language Remake
Disney has announced what it’s calling a “Latin American reversioning” of the popular TV comedy aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences throughout the Western Hemisphere, including the U.S. Though filming will be at a studio in Caracas, the series (whose actual title in Spanish is Los Años dorados) is set in Miami, just as in the original.
In France, ‘Mais Qui Est-Ce, Julia Child?‘
“[She] may have been America’s best-known ‘French chef,’ but here in Paris few know her fabled cookbooks [or television shows], let alone her name.” Among those few who do know about Child, opinions sharply differ.
Editorial: It’s Time To End Visa Denials Based On Ideology
“It has been nearly 20 years since Congress repealed the provisions used during the cold war to deny visas to prominent foreign intellectuals, artists and activists because of their left-leaning politics” — a practice “eagerly revived” by the Bush administration “under a flimsily supported guise of fighting terrorism.”
The Art Of The Steal Brings Albert Barnes Back To Life
“The documentary presents a kind of high-culture conspiracy theory, going so far as to display a cop-show-like ‘suspects board’ with photographs of civic and cultural leaders linked in their alleged efforts to usurp the Barnes’ deed and influence the foundation’s board.” The film also manages to “make Barnes, the pharmacological-entrepreneur-turned-art-maven, human again.”
It Wasn’t Really The Summer Of Death; It Just Felt That Way
“This summer could come to be known as the summer when baby boomers began to turn to the obituary pages first, to face not merely their own mortality or ponder their legacies, but to witness the passing of legends who defined them as a tribe, bequeathing through music, culture, news and politics a kind of generational badge that has begun to fray.”