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...have been mixed so far, but last year's issue of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw revealed a new depth pushing through his characteristic incisiveness. But Harding is the first to concede that he has some ripening to do: "I feel I'm a grown-up artist now, with my own orchestra and recordings, but I also know that in 10 years I'll look back and say, 'A grown-up? Then? Preposterous!'" Jonathan Lemalu, 27, New Zealand. This burly bass-baritone may have accomplished less so far than Lang Lang or Harding, but he's generating...
...music collection that includes everything from a vinyl EP of the disco-punk band the Rapture to Whitney Houston singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. "There's a pride taken in being open minded, whether that's Top 40 music or some obscure German laptop artist," says Margot Nason, director of trends at Youth Intelligence, a firm that tracks tastes and styles...
...family moved to London, where Adjaye eventually earned an architecture degree at South Bank University, and then made a fateful move to study further at the Royal College of Art. He says he went there to foster within himself "an artist's sensibility toward architecture. I wanted to see what architecture can be when art comes first." But the place also introduced him to a circle of friends who would go on to become the loosely affiliated group that the British call the YBAs--Young British Artists. Cultural bomb throwers, most of them collected and promoted by the wealthy...
Adjaye may be a singular man, but there's no one way to understand him. He's part go-your-own-way artist, part passionate communitarian, part canny salesman, part lyrical architectural philosopher. (One typical pronouncement: "I think design is a defunct word. I curate spaces.") The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and raised in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon. He brings to his work the eye of a man who has learned as much from the intricately woven streetscapes of Cairo as from the ideal geometries of Le Corbusier. "I spent my childhood...
...remains to be seen whether Adjaye can reconcile his ideas about an architecture of community with his artist's taste for buildings that stand apart from their surroundings--like Frank Gehry's or Frank Lloyd Wright's--as one-of-a-kind sculptural objects. What can architecture be when art comes first? There are a lot of approaches to that question. What Adjaye is providing is some answers you should know about...