The Times Square International Theater Festival, “which will run Jan. 16 to 22, will feature nearly a score of works from three continents at the Times Square Arts Center on West 43rd Street.”
Tag: 12.19.11
Vaclav Havel – Art Of The Politician
With Vaclav Havel, the Czech author and playwright, it is impossible to separate the artist’s politics from the politician’s art. He was both a witness and a communicant, repeatedly exploring, in the words of the title of one of his essays, “the power of the powerless.”
Collectors Make Big Bets On Chinese Art Market
“Despite the art market’s vulnerability to shocks, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, when unrealistic estimates left scores of unsold lots amid tepid bidding even in the red-hot Chinese ceramics market, Asia’s rapid wealth accumulation is likely to result in more cash flowing into art and other alternative investments.”
UK Arts Groups Renew BP Sponsorship Despite Protests
“The institutions have faced repeated protests in recent years for taking money from the oil giant. The leaders of all four gathered together in a show of solidarity and said the sponsorship would continue until 2017.”
Geologists Finally Locate Source Of Stonehenge Stones
“They found the culprit on a 65-metre-long outcropping called Craig Rhos-y-Felin, near Pont Saeson in north Pembrokeshire. It lies approximately 160 miles from the Stonehenge site. The question remains though, as to how neolithic people transported huge chunks of rock from Wales to Wiltshire, some 5,000 years ago.”
Push For National Latino Museum As LA Effort Falls Flat
“Last month, identical bills were introduced in the House and Senate that would create the Latino museum as a new branch of the Smithsonian Institution. The bills, sponsored by nine senators and two House members, among them four Latinos, calls for establishing the museum in the Arts and Industries Building, a vacant, 130-year-old historic structure on the National Mall.”
Vaclav Havel – So-so Playwright, Brilliant Manifesto Writer
“His plays–as turgid, alas, as the Communist bureaucrats they are meant to satirize–will not survive, except as curiosities. But his famous political essay–“The Power of the Powerless”–will live forever. Its appeal is universal.”
To Save Choreography, Write It Down – Or Film It
Dancers need to learn a multitude of choreographed steps, but is the best method through a notated score or through video? And what does a notator do, anyway?