In a program that combines cultural preservation and economic development (i.e., tourism), the seaside city of Shimoda is using public money to train some young ladies in the traditional song, dance and instrumental music in which the city’s geishas once specialized.
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Béla Tarr Says He Has Quit Filmmaking
The 58-year-old Hungarian director, best-known (or most notorious) for the seven-and-a-half-hour Sátántangó, has confirmed that his most recent work, The Turin Horse, is his last. “It is an extraordinary move from a man who has won rabid devotees as a standard-bearer for art-house modernism.”
The ’60s ‘Happenings’, Remembered By Their Instigators
“But what actually happened at the Happenings? Because they were so ephemeral, and documentation is so patchy, art historians have spent decades trying to figure that out. So have their creators.” Claes Oldenburg, Patty Mucha, Lucas Samaras, Red Grooms and others look back.
Bolshoi Ballet Academy To See First U.S. Graduate
This spring, Joy Womack, a 17-year-old from California and Texas, becomes the first American to complete the famously rigorous training program that produces the Bolshoi’s Russian dancers. She says, “The technique and the artistry and the passion is something that is worth moving thousands of miles away.”
Capturing Dancers In Flight: The 360 Degree Project
Ryan Enn Hughes places his subjects – members of the street dance crew Northbuck Krump and students at the National Ballet school of Canada – “inside a circle of 48 cameras, which are networked up to take a simultaneous image of what he calls a ‘peak’ moment of action – a jump, an arabesque, a slide.”
Starchitects Revolutionize The Parking Garages Of Miami Beach
“Miami Beach has become a magnet for high-end architects” – Herzog & deMeuron, Frank Gehry, Enrique Morten, Zaha Hadid, Arquitectonica, Rem Koolhaas’s OMA – “intent on rethinking what the often drab, utilitarian parking garage can be.”
Photojournalist Eve Arnold, 99
“The longevity of Eve Arnold’s career as a photographer matched the heterogeneity of her work. Despite the success of her portraits of the rich and famous, Arnold … was equally well known for photographing ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’. She said: ‘It’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is’.”
Ronald Searle, 91, Beloved Cartoonist And Illustrator
“[He was] best known for his spiky comic drawings depicting the outrageous antics of the St Trinian’s girls, and for his illustrations of the Molesworth series, written by Geoffrey Willans and which, as any fule kno [sic], tells of life at the boys’ prep school St Custard’s.”
Double-Blind Violin Test: Which One’s The Stradivarius?
A research team “gathered professional violinists in a hotel room in Indianapolis. They had six violins – two Strads, a Guarneri and three modern instruments. Everybody wore dark goggles so they couldn’t see which violin was which. Then the researchers told the musicians: These are all fine violins and at least one is a Stradivarius. Play, then judge the instruments.”
Mugged Ballet Dancer, Feared Paralyzed, Making ‘Miracle’ Recovery
Jack Widdowson, the 19-year-old dancer who was mugged and beaten last month, had been injured so badly that it was feared he might not walk again, let alone dance. Yet he is now home from hospital, walking short distances, and in ongoing physical therapy.