Performing Arts
Over a hundred films will be screened during the 28th Sundance Film Festival, which starts today in Park City, Utah, and continues through January 29. More than the average number this year concern children, two are about pervasive hunger in North America, two (perhaps more) involve roadkill, and more than that are hesitant romances....
Having been nominated for 11 Academy Awards this morning, “Hugo” leads the Oscar race numerically, but only by one nomination. The black and white, mostly silent French comedy-drama “The Artist,” which was nominated for ten Oscars, remains the favorite to win Best Picture — as it has been since the awards season began.Several other films...
Having been nominated for 11 Academy Awards this morning, “Hugo” leads the Oscar race numerically, but only by one nomination. The black and white, mostly silent French comedy-drama “The Artist,” which was nominated for ten Oscars, remains the favorite to win Best Picture — as it has been since the awards season began.Several other films...
Who painted, in Walter Keane’s words, “the waifs of the world” — those pathetically sorrowful wide-eyed children who became a Pop Art sensation in the 1960s? Keane (1915-2000) claimed he did, but those kitschy canvases were actually the work of his former wife, Margaret Keane (born 1927), who eventually demonstrated she was the waif...
Over a hundred films will be screened during the 28th Sundance Film Festival, which starts today in Park City, Utah, and continues through January 29. More than the average number this year concern children, two are about pervasive hunger in North America, two (perhaps more) involve roadkill, and more than that are hesitant romances....
The Lucerne Festival and Kajimoto Music have teamed up to bring live art to areas of North Japan still suffering from the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami of last March.Christened Ark Nova, the project is led by Arata Isozaki. The Japanese architect is collaborating closely with British artist Anish Kapoor, who is in charge of...
An unregulated domain where the success of multimillion-dollar transactions, the trajectory of careers, and the kindness of the historical record often come down to personal relationships, the modern art world has always been hotbed, literally, of power couples — pairs of dedicated strivers who seal their mutual pursuit of art's...
