Word: earthworm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...costumes. Also, we work with Sam Levy who is the cinematographer. He added gels to the lights, so in the fish series, the colors have become even more vivid. And I think the lighting is glamorous. It added to the film, because I was photographed glamorously, but as an earthworm...
...thought you brought a lot of dignity to that earthworm. You're often in unflattering or strange costumes-do you have a favorite? Some costumes are more uncomfortable than others. The worst was the earthworm. I was in this 36-foot-long costume, and I had to stay in a permanent sit-up-or else they would be unable photograph my head-for hours...
...other big complaint is about the contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant article about the biggest show to date, an exhibition earlier this summer of works by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones in the Rubens room. The show was part of a series designed to give visitors a new perspective on old works. "It's important to have polyphony around the collection," Loyrette says. But Fumaroli dismissed it as pantalonnades--pantomime...
...Earthworm Has Turned Inevitably, some people have serious misgivings about what Loyrette is up to. Just ask Marc Fumaroli, one of 40 members of the Académie Française, the cream of the French intelligentsia, who are known as "the immortals." He's chairman of the Society of Friends of the Louvre, a 111-year-old French association that helps finance some of the museum's acquisitions. Its popularity has been waning, but with 70,000 members, most of whom pay a $100 annual subscription, it still has some clout - even if it doesn't formally have...
...date, an exhibition by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held earlier this summer in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a table strewn with feathered sculptures depicting the severed heads of seven owls in the same room as Van Dyck portraits, and a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones sharing a space with 21 Rubens depictions of Marie de Medicis. The show was part of a series called "Counterpoints," designed to give a new perspective on old works by putting them alongside contemporary ones. "It's important to have polyphony around the collection," says Loyrette...