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Jasper Johns is a technical virtuoso [Oct. 31], but please do not confuse craftsmanship with aesthetic significance. When one sets up concerns for the "object" as Johns has done in White Flag, that person is not dealing with universal issues.
In contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in...
For all its aesthetic resourcefulness, however, Volcano never offers insights into the novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas?his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry...
Whether or not the Dracula boom is a solid vote for primordial superstition, it is certainly a solid boost for fun and may even contain essential elements of theatricality that have been too long neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than...
The Lyric remains a world-class op era house, and its average cast will rival the Met norm. Its secret: a short twelve-week season that welds its cast for brief, intense, festival-like engagements. This season began with Luciano Pavarotti in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'...