Word: artists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take a modern approach and employ the right marketing, the chance for Kunqu is there," says Zhang, who with his artfully shredded jeans and spiky hair looks more like a pop artist than an opera devotee. In fact, he is a former member of Wind, a popular Shanghai hip-hop outfit, but says he has always had a special affinity for Kunqu, which he began studying at the age of 8. "It was a torturous experience," he recalls. To train for the acrobatic maneuvers that are sometimes incorporated into a Kunqu performance, "we were forced to squat for hours...
...years of Judith Thurman’s writing. In these diverse essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Thurman explores several “varieties of desire.” She centers her analysis loosely around a simple question: why do people—particularly artists, but others as well—choose the paths they do? Though the collection is necessarily a bit incoherent, Thurman’s consistently lively narrative voice compensates for any discontinuity. In each successive essay, Thurman takes on a new topic with equal ferocity, laying out for her reader the inner...
...appeal to critics to see him as more than a pop-culture reference point. It may never have occurred to him that “JPod” confirmed his place as one of literature’s most cherished living satirists. While it is generally laudable for an artist to broaden their scope as their career matures, Coupland would do better to stay with what he knows—intelligent, original satire instead of hackneyed fatalism. In a world where death lurks in the toothpaste we use and the toys we give our children, it is difficult...
...death, which has until now marked the chronological endpoint of its permanent collection. This exhibition of over 100 works opens with portraits from Goya's age - including one by him of a voluptuous Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and another of him, by contemporary Vicente López, depicting the artist in dyspeptic old age. Francisco Pradilla's tempestuous 1877 painting of a grieving Queen Juana la Loca is perhaps the most striking of the exhibition's vast historical works. Their general heaviness is relieved in the last two galleries by the delightful impressionistic works of Mariano Fortuny and Joaqu...
Carlos Alazraqui is known for his role as Officer James Garcia on Comedy Central’s “Reno 911.” He is also a seasoned voiceover artist, providing his talent to Rocko on “Rocko’s Modern Life,” Mr. Crocker on Nickelodeon’s “Fairly Odd Parents,” and to the ever-famous “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” Chihuahua of the fast-food chain’s campaign. He starred in his own half-hour stand up comedy...