For two decades, the resourceful company Nós do Morro has been presenting professional theater in a hillside slum above Rio de Janeiro. “People from the rich areas of the city will now come here to go to the theater,” says the troupe’s founder. “They might never have ventured to a district like this before.” (Next month the company does Two Gentlemen of Verona at London’s Barbican.)
Tag: 09.25.08
How to Get Rich Selling Art During a World War
France in 1940 was not the best time to get started in the art business. But Aimé Maeght was living in the unoccupied Côte d’Azur, where “there was not enough art to go around.” Matisse and Bonnard, whose studios in occupied Paris were closed, were nearby and needed income. Thus (with some smuggling thrown in) was a great career and fortune made…
When Disciplines Collide
“[Artist] Martin Creed’s latest piece, Work No. 955, […] though barely three minutes in duration, could well be Creed’s most ambitious piece to date: not only due to the fact that it requires an entire symphony orchestra to realise it, but because it raises fundamental questions about the relationship between music and art in general. We accept that music is a form of art – but is it equally the case that art can take the form of a piece of music?”
Oskar Eustis on Why He’s Producing Sondheim at the Public
“Who else is going to produce him? I’d like to say two things about that. This show [Road Show] has been around and has failed to come to New York. The producing community has let Sondheim down… Secondly, as we kept working on the show, the great themes of the piece started to feel more and more like Public Theater themes to me… Good God, the show is about a real estate bubble that bursts!”
Dennis Hopper Does a Fashion Shoot(!)
In which our protagonist shows off his Frank Gehry house and Warhol paintings, the photographer strips naked, and everyone survives an earthquake.
Radiohead Launches Easier, Less Expensive Remix Contest
“Radiohead’s remix contest for its track ‘Nude’ was a big deal by any measure… Building on that experience, the band has decided to unbundle ‘Reckoner,’ another of its In Rainbows tracks into individual remix stems, once again for sale via the iTunes music store, but with a few twists.”
The National Anthem at Baseball Games – It’s Harder Than You Think
“Everything from the sound delay from the stadium speakers to any F-18s flying overhead conspire to derail the performance.”
Judge Grants New Trial in Illegal Downloading Case
“A federal judge granted a new trial to a Minnesota woman convicted of pirating music files in the nation’s first file-sharing trial, ruling Wednesday he made an error in the jury instructions that ‘substantially prejudiced’ her rights.”
A Good Place to Watch English Evolve
“For the third time in a week I am on urbandictionary.com, and haunted by the feeling that this is not quite what my time as poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust should be spent doing.”
But How Will I Figure Out My Cell Phone Bill?
As Google introduces its new mobile phone, the company is also developing “a system where instead of always connecting to one network, a phone, laptop or other wireless device invites all available networks to bid for your business.”