Performing Arts
  • Flamboyant and Politically Engaged, Danny Boyle's "Isles of Wonder" Reinvents the Olympic Opening Ceremony Tradition

    by Coline Milliard, ARTINFO UK Published: July 28, 2024 Last night was a triumph for film director Danny Boyle. The London 2012 Opening Ceremony he masterminded was an astounding spectacle, which ...

  • David Hockney and Ai Weiwei at Odds Over Olympics Opener, Syrian Artist Tortured, and More Must-Read Art News

    by ARTINFO Published: July 30, 2024 - David Hockney and Ai Weiwei on Danny Boyle's Olympics Opener: Everyone has an opinion about Danny Boyle's epic Olympics opening ceremony, artists included. Ai ...

  • Damien Hirst Paints Guitars for Joe Strummer, SF Museums Face Strike Threat, And More Must-Read Art News

    Published: August 8, 2012- Hirst Paints Guitars for Joe Strummer Raffle: Two guitars painted by Damien Hirst - a Fender Telecaster electric guitar adorned with dots and an Eastwood acoustic guitar ...

  • Where Joaquin Phoenix Sowed the Seeds for His Great Performance in "The Master"

    Joaquin Phoenix's performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is one of the greatest of the century so far – up there with Daniel Day-Lewis’s in Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.”
    By Graham Fuller, ARTINFO

  • Remembering Von Freeman: Chicago Icon, NEA Jazz Master

    If Chicago is the Windy City, then few blew there with as much impact as Von Freeman. The tenor saxophonist died August 11 at the Kindred Chicago Lakeshore Center just two months shy of his 89th birthday.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 05, 2012, 8:00 PM EST
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