January/ February 2010 online
Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre;
Behrens on Music; Seckel on the Cultural Scene;
Hendler on the Long Island Art Scene;
Dawn Lille on the Ballets Russes;
Wersal ‘Speaks Out’ on the Art vs. Craft Question;
New Art Books; Steiner's Peeks and Piques!;
Extensive Calendar of Events, Opportunity Listings
Michelangelo and Mapplethorpe
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI is renowned for his Renaissance masterpieces, often of religious subjects: the David, the Pietá, the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer of the 1970s and 1980s, is remembered for his sexually-charged, often homoerotic images: statuesque nudes, rippled backs, a self-portrait with a bullwhip. |
Spain and the Ballets Russes
As noted in the Sept/Oct issue, this is the centenary year of the Diaghilev Ballets Russes. Since the art of dance is global, it is not surprising that on a recent trip to Spain I saw the English National Ballet at the Liceo, the opera house in Barcelona, in a program billed as an homage to Diaghilev and his company. |
Culturally Speaking
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) is quite a force in the Hudson Valley art scene. The 12,000 square foot space (24’ ceilings) currently showing “Double Dutch”, an exhibition celebrating the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River is on view through July 26, 2010. There are 16 artists represented all the artists in the exhibit are Dutch or, as HVCCA puts it, “have a Dutch ‘soul’”. (continue to Essay)
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