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...Kooning bore on it. De Kooning, Diebenkorn felt, "had it all, could outpaint anybody, at least until the mid-'60s, when he began to lose it." But Diebenkorn's friendship with the Bay Area painter David Park, who bravely refused to accept the reigning dictum in the American avant-garde that radicalism had to mean abstraction, pointed him still closer toward the figurative...
Disney seemed to be taking a risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
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Initially influenced by the jarring acerbities of the postwar avant-garde, Tan has since joined the new wave of classical composers who, following such successful older figures as John Corigliano and Henryk Gorecki, seek to speak to the largest possible audience without compromising their musical seriousness. "In the middle of the 20th century," he says, "composers were trying to be as isolated as possible--extremely, even selfishly isolated. I can't see why we should keep on doing that...
...traditional stage confection that came as close as possible to being a literal, three-dimensional re-creation of the movie. Yet to direct the stage version of The Lion King, the most successful movie in the company's history, Disney has hired someone who made her name in the avant-garde theater. It was a daring choice, for live theater has become an increasingly important part of the Disney empire. Beauty and the Beast, now in its fourth year on Broadway and with nine companies worldwide, is estimated to have brought in $150 million in profits. The company...