A certain class of American spends part of the summer in Paris drinking café au lait and visiting Shakespeare and Co. Another will venture upstate or to the coast, maybe the Cape, or set off to the country. Still others yet go to Washington DC, which is where I found myself earlier this year. It …
This Sunday, like all Sundays, in another mass I will not be attending, there is a space of prayer between the creed and the offering of bread and wine. Catholics call this the Prayers of the Faithful. A man has had surgery. Someone’s baby died. A priest has gone away for a family visit in …
A.R. Gurney is one of our most prolific playwrights. From the 1970s until now, in over 50 shows including The Dining Room, Love Letters, The Perfect Party and The Cocktail Hour, he has compassionately and humorously chronicled the diminishing fortunes, both financial and psychological, of the WASP upper class as the American population becomes a …
PART ONE With critical acclaim, numerous significant awards and prestigious projects located in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, some completed, some being completed and/or some in discussion, Frank Gehry with his firm Gehry Partners LLP spans the globe much as Hollywood and Disney have done. How does one assess a person of such gargantuan …
After Hollywood and Disney, Has Frank Gehry Become LA’s Third Global Franchise? Read More »
Choreographer and director Sasha Waltz is a force. Her powerful, groundbreaking, and critically acclaimed work has toured the world, drawing crowds in the thousands at venues that include museums, opera houses, non-traditional sites, and proscenium theaters. She has been the subject of numerous films, books, interviews, and articles published worldwide. And yet, Waltz’s work seems …
What a hoot. Coincidence makes for truly farcical bedfellows. The Geffen Playhouse has kicked off its new season, with the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Rolin Jones’ These Paper Bullets, a send-up of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing; Costa Mesa’s South Coast Repertory (SCR) has chosen to present the West Coast premiere of Richard Bean’s …
The simple fact is that there are not enough female directors in the film industry. And the Horizon Award is doing something about it. Following a successful launch at Sundance 2015, founding partners Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell, and Christine Vachon are even more committed to the Horizon Award’s growth and impact. The Horizon Award is …
(Update: An extra screening has been added for Saturday, September 26, 1:15pm.) The Emmy’s It’s 2015, a time when we’re shocked by the fact that a profoundly talented actress like Viola Davis can win an award that she should have been given the opportunity to win since the beginning of television itself, but that would …
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Richard Jones is the author of seven books of poetry from Copper Canyon Press, including The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning. This autumn a new collection of poems about his father, King of Hearts, will appear from Adastra Press. Cultural Weekly is proud to premiere these two poems. ***** The Messengers Of making many books there is no …
General considerations Distinct urban districts, be it historically, socially, culturally and/or economically, which have been conceived and planned as bona fide municipalities or as proto “new towns in town,” have developed architectural signature and planning layouts which help make clear the limit between them and their surroundings. The corollary of this is the high probability …
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In the process of painting, for the one thing that someone sees, there are innumerable things that they never see – Raymond Saunders Reminiscent of Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Raymond Saunders’ thematic paintings have remained unclassifiable and singular. Raymond Saunders has been an important presence in American Contemporary Art for over …
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