Telemann’s ‘Orpheus’ given staging by NYC Opera
No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978.
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‘Newsies’ choreographer draws on his background
Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.
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Up on the roof of NY’s Met museum in “Cloud City”
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a different perspective of the sky, clouds and the city around them. "Cloud City," which opens on Tuesday and runs for six months, is a giant jumble of interconnecting modules, measuring 54 feet long and 28 feet high, that rises to varying levels and incorporates reflective materials, mirrors and glass with New York's skyline and Central Park as the backdrop. ...
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Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist
Artist Tony Abeyta just can't help himself.
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Pop artist who created LOVE sued for renouncing artwork
(Reuters) - An 83-year-old artist known for his block letter "LOVE" design that became a symbol of the anti-war movement in the 1960s is being sued by a Monaco-based art dealer for renouncing the authenticity of sculptures once valued as high as $1 million. Beginning in 2008, art buyer Joao Tovar paid $481,625 for 10 sculptures of the word PREM, a Sanskrit term meaning "love," from a one-time business partner of renowned pop artist Robert Indiana, Tovar said in the lawsuit filed in superior court in Rockland, Maine. ...
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra to tour Mexico, Asia
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti plan trips to New York, Asia and Mexico for the 2012-2013 season. View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News
American soap opera ‘Bold’ is big hit in Italy
With sunglasses and spike heels, makeup artists and wardrobe experts, the American soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" has landed in Italy.
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Estonia to open maritime museum in seaplane hangar
Estonia will open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hangar once used by Charles Lindbergh.
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Artist Kapoor finds beauty in London’s Olympic orbit
LONDON (Reuters) - Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor said on Friday that Britons would grow to love his spiraling red tower on London's Olympic Park, just as people had come to appreciate other structures initially loathed, including the Eiffel Tower. The 115-metre tall structure, higher than London's Big Ben and New York's Statue of Liberty has divided opinion, with some describing it as resembling a carnival slide or a water pipe. ...
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A ‘Picasso’ That an Ohio Man Bought in a Thrift Store Sold for $7,000
Zachary Bodish, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, bought what he thought was a poster reproduction advertising an exhibit of Pablo Picasso for $14.14 in a thrift store and sold it for $7,000 to a private buyer. View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News