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...where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says its director Tim Supple. Despite all the hush-hush, there's been no shortage of advance buzz over the play, which opens in London's Barbican Theatre on Jan. 29. Its provenance alone guarantees the highest expectations: Rushdie's 1981 novel is a modern classic found on literature syllabi in universities around the world. The project's other obvious talking point is its seeming implausibility: ever since the project was announced last September, fans...
Rarely have the cultural aspirations of a city been as neatly represented by one edifice as Singapore's are with Esplanade, the new arts coliseum the city-state hopes will become the local version of New York's Lincoln Center, London's Barbican or, considering its harbor-side perch, the Sydney Opera House. Never mind the debate over what these animalized structures most resemble?hedgehog or scarab? Porcupine or mollusk??the real issue is whether Singapore can remake itself as the "Renaissance City" the government hopes will flower on the banks of the Malacca Straits...
Entering the flashing, bleeping world of the Barbican Art Gallery's Game On show is like stepping into an arcade circa 1975. The faces of teenage boys, eerily lit from below, seem hypnotized by consoles decorated with intergalactic centipedes. On the screens, a bear fights with waltzing trees and chorus lines of space jellyfish advance, firing from the hip. Videogames have reached their fourth decade, and the Game On exhibition traces their development from the simple tennis contest Pong to cinematic role-playing games like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip...
...himself how many times he has been married since his return from prison, and God alone knows how many children he has fathered throughout the Balkans." The gypsy diva of the Czech Republic, Vera Bila, meanwhile, has performed at the Hollywood Bowl and London's Barbican. But until a few years ago she was working odd jobs cooking and cleaning. Whatever the roots of their popularity, these musicians may be helping preserve the cultural traditions of an entire region. Bands like Taraf learned their craft while Eastern Europe was still shut behind the Iron Curtain and so avoided the market...
...show of his work doesn't mean he's getting soft. Hardly. One of his landscapes, The Grim Reaper, above, was shot for Absolut Vodka. The firm chose not to use it because it was deemed too dark for a mainstream audience. Newton recently sat down at the Barbican with a menagerie of onlookers - students, fans and perverts - for an interview...