A six-month stage hands strike threatens the health of the city’s dance company Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. – CBC
Tag: 10.28.99
EXPLAINING NATURAL PHENOMENA IN CULTURAL TERMS
John MacDonald’s inaugural speech as head of Australian art at the National Gallery of Australia. Sydney Morning Herald
EXPLAINING NATURAL PHENOMENA IN CULTURAL TERMS
John MacDonald’s inaugural speech as head of Australian art at the National Gallery of Australia. Sydney Morning Herald
BOOKER BICKER
The usual publishers’ rows, sponsor complaints and judges’ griping behind England’s top literary prize. – Salon
CROSSING AMERICA
For the past six months Greg Zanis has traveled around the country in his truck making crosses wherever he goes – so far 3,400 of them. Washington Post
CRITICAL DISCONNECT
An artist puts up a show consisting of 25 decorated decomposing rabbits hanging from trees. The city has a lively debate about the work and then it’s vandalized in the middle of the night. Now the curator of the rabbit show talks about art that seeks to confront. CBC
END OF AN ERA
After ten years, “Phantom” closes in Toronto. Lavish musical signaled the boom in Toronto theater – now the waning interest in mega-musicals and in Toronto’s theater scene. Toronto Globe and Mail
NOT JUST ANOTHER MURDER
An artist lies face down in a pool of blood in a store window in downtown San Antonio. Passers by on the street can talk to the attending detective, reporter, prosecutor or defense attorney – all part of this sordid theater performance. San Antonio Express News
OPERA AS TALK SHOW
Michael Rouse’s new opera “Dennis Cleveland” is an opera “because you can’t call it anything else.” This musical piece of “anti-media” is a techno-wonder. – LA Weekly
PAGANINI’S FAVORITE VIOLIN –
– a Guarneri called “the Cannon” – is brought out only for special occasions. This week it got only its second-ever concert in America. – San Francisco Examiner