‘Intent to Deceive’ - Slide Show. Newsnight - Ballet's Sergei Polunin: 'The artist in me was dying' Sergei Polunin explains why he felt compelled to quit the Royal Ballet Sergei Polunin, the youngest dancer ever to be made a principal with the Royal Ballet, whose skill had earned him comparisons with Nureyev and Baryshnikov, shocked the dance world in January by unexpectedly quitting. In his first broadcast interview since that decision he has spoken to BBC Newsnight about why he walked away. Sergei Polunin readily admits that he is no fan of rehearsing, saying that it is only when performing that he enjoys dancing: "That is the only time I enjoy our profession in a way - it is communicating with people and showing what you have learned in nine years.
"You learn and practice a lot, sometimes for months, you sometimes argue, and it is for nine hours a day. So when you are finally on stage, especially when it is finished, you have so much adrenalin, so much joy in your body, that feeling can keep you in the profession," he says. Absolute focus "You live the life of a dancer. Rehearsal regimen. Is this the Jurassic Park of the art world or a protected gene-pool for the future? Analysis United Kingdom Traditional figurative art still rules in many Eastern European art academies, but talent still shines through By Simon Hewitt.
Focus, Issue 254, February 2014Published online: 12 February 2014 The great hall of the St Petersburg Repin art academy Nothing ever surprises me in Russia. Certainly not the knowledge that the second (and last) winner of the 2013 Plastov Awards, worth €500,000, will remain Zurab Tsereteli, that industrious purveyor of neo-Fauve paintings and mosaics, best known for giving Peter the Great the Statue of Liberty treatment in the River Moskva. He is president of the Russian Academy of Arts and, as such, oversees the country’s two most famous academies: the Repin in St Petersburg (the I.
The St Petersburg academy, founded in 1757, occupies a grandiose, appealingly musty Neo-Classical palace by the Neva River. As a former consultant to the Solomon R. Mikhailovsky was elected rector of the academy he calls “my home” in 2010. Submit a comment Name* Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together. Why Conflict Makes For Better Design | Co.Design | business + innovation + design. “The most important ability that a designer can bring to his work," Victor Papanek wrote in his seminal book, Design for the Real World, "is the ability to recognize, isolate, define, and solve problems.
" The seventh edition of the Design Triennial, happening now in Flanders, takes a cue from Papanek and features the work of designers-as-problem solvers with the exhibition “Conflict and Design. " It includes over 60 design concepts, projects, and processes that investigate how good design can make the world a better place. The work is “not innovation for the sake of innovation," according to curator Kurt Vanbelleghem, "but rather design with a clear social-societal objective: creating a better living, social, and working climate.” “The objective was to use a design intervention to promote simple but meaningful encounters with people who live close to each other,” designer Anna van Oppen said in her artist statement.
How visualising data has changed life… and saved lives. Big data, infographics, visualisations – the pop words of a modern phenomenon. But while information accumulation has become a 21st-century obsession, our generation is not the first to discover that a picture is worth a thousand words, as a new British Library exhibition will reveal. Revelling in the power of illustrations, tables and figures, Beautiful Science charts the course of data dissemination across the centuries, from the grim ledgers of death recorded by John Graunt in the 17th-century "bills of mortality" to the digital evolutionary tree dreamt up by an Imperial College researcher, complete with a mind-boggling zoomable function.
"You can use almost fractal-like patterns to explore all of life on Earth," says Dr Johanna Kieniewicz, lead exhibition curator. But diagrams can also be agents of change. Indeed, Florence Nightingale's talent at wielding data to push for health reforms shows she was not only the lady with the lamp but the girl with the graphics. Does Great Literature Make Us Better People? The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. You agree with me, I expect, that exposure to challenging works of literary fiction is good for us.
That’s one reason we deplore the dumbing-down of the school curriculum and the rise of the Internet and its hyperlink culture. Perhaps we don’t all read very much that we would count as great literature, but we’re apt to feel guilty about not doing so, seeing it as one of the ways we fall short of excellence. Wouldn’t reading about Anna Karenina, the good folk of Middlemarch and Marcel and his friends expand our imaginations and refine our moral and social sensibilities? If someone now asks you for evidence for this view, I expect you will have one or both of the following reactions. What sort of evidence could we present?
There is scant evidence that reading great literature morally improves us. I hope no one is going to push this line very hard. Tucker Nichols. ‘Forrest Bess’ Gets Personal at the Neuberger Museum. Photo PURCHASE, N.Y. — The small but potent paintings of Forrest Bess respond to the art world’s “either-ors” with a resounding “and.” Without resorting to big stretches of canvas or brash gestures, they merge inner and outer worlds, abstraction and representation, and ideas of masculinity and femininity. To a market still intent on labeling “insiders” and “outsiders,” they offer the conundrum of an artist who showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in the 1950s, alongside Rothko and Pollock, but made his living as a bait fisherman in Bay City, Tex. “Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible,” at the Neuberger Museum of Art here, embraces his life and work in its sometimes messy totality.
This holistic show comes to the Neuberger from the Menil Collection in Houston, where it was seen last spring and summer. It can be difficult to look closely at the art without getting sidetracked by the extraordinary details of Bess’s life. His color sense has a similar effect. ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum. Can You Hate the Artist but Love the Art? - NYTimes.com. Can You Hate the Artist but Love the Art? - NYTimes.com. Mptvimages.comMarlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in “On the Waterfront.” The Issue Last Wednesday Budd Schulberg died at 95. He was a journalist (particularly astute about boxing), a novelist (‘‘What Makes Sammy Run’’) and above all a screenwriter: ‘‘On the Waterfront’’ is a glorious accomplishment. He was also a man who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is not easy to reconcile Schulberg’s disheartening testimony with his splendid work. Does rejecting the artist mean rejecting the art?
The Argument The work stands alone. And yet. The contracts of big-time actors and athletes often include a morals clause, less an expression of principled concern for the virtue of the performer than economic concern for the psychology of the audience: many fans won’t pay to see a miscreant perform. Call it the Woody Allen Quandary. Unless you were eager to date Woody Allen or pal around with Budd Schulberg, why would you care what they were like as people? Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art. All kinds of minds | TED Playlists. Daryl Hannah: 11 talks that inspired me | TED Playlists. Daryl Hannah: 11 talks that inspired me | TED Playlists. Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world.