Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divided down the middle like the two halves of a walnut, the cerebral hemispheres are anatomically separate, but are cross-wired so that each controls the opposite side of the body-the left monitoring the right side, the right regulating the left. One hemisphere-the left in most people-is...
IT IS INTERESTING that the two greatest symphonists of the latter 19th century were also the finest composers of choral music. A comparison of their choral writing is fascinating for the light it sheds on two very different aesthetic concepts. The essential traits so dramatically obvious in the symphonies are...
Kirstein's lifework, as it happens, takes in a good deal more than dance. A poet, art critic and onetime novelist, he seems to have an aesthetic Midas touch that produces quality in virtually everything he takes up. At Harvard he established and edited the magazine Hound and Horn...
Balanchine once said of Kirstein: "Lincoln is a true Christian, even though he won't admit it. He gives you money and runs away before you can thank him." Kirstein simply says: "We don't talk very much. He doesn't express himself verbally, and I can...
Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One...