By: Alice,
on 1/14/2016
Alban Berg’s Lulu is generally acknowledged as one of the master pieces of twentieth century opera. However, because of its many musical and theatrical challenges, it is seldom performed. The last time Lulu was seen at the Metropolitan opera was in 1980.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 7/22/2014
As part of their website redesign, the "New Yorker" has made every article they've published since 2007 available for free on their website, including some animation-related pieces.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 11/6/2012
The Klik! Animation Festival begins tomorrow in Amsterdam and continues through the weekend.
The quirky animation gathering has grown quickly in its first five years of existence. This year’s Klik! includes a full slate of competition screenings, special screenings ranging William Kentridge to Adventure Time, and a focus on the theme of violence in animation. The latter thematic emphasis is particularly intriguing, with programs related to “cartoon violence,” “serious violence,” and “disturbing violence;” screenings of the features The Suicide Shop and Watership Down; and a half-day symposium on violence with a line-up of speakers that include filmmakers, scholars, and psychologists.
And if all that animation isn’t enough, the festival will take place in the impressively futuristic EYE Film Institute, which opened earlier this year. I visited the waterfront Institute last summer, and it’s a perfectly inspiring space to hold an animation festival.
Below is Klik’s 2012 festival leader, directed by Lukas Krepel, Patrick Schoenmaker, and Joost Lieuwma:
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By: [email protected],
on 3/16/2010
South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) is best known for his stark charcoal drawings and works of animation, collage, and sculpture. In "William Kentridge: Five Themes," now on view at the Museum of Modern Art and available as a beautifully designed catalogue and DVD from Yale University Press, the curators explore the five main themes that have dominated Kentridge's creations since the 1980s, including the long shadows of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism.
The exhibit also includes materials related to the artist’s staging and design of Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose, which premiered earlier this month at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. For a better sense of the exhibit's style and scope, be sure to visit MoMA's excellent dedicated website, and check out Kentridge at work in the video below.
Note: Tuesday Studio will be a new regular feature of the Yale Press Log showcasing multimedia takes on the latest YUP publications in art and architecture. Check back next week for more.
