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...Tempest, which many consider to be one of Shakespeare's all-time greats, is getting its al fresco production by the Open Door Theater, opening tomorrow at 7:30 at the "Kettle Bowl" at the Arts Center in the Park at Pinebank on the Jamaicaway. Tickets are $3. Call 776-9378 for more Information. Blankets and/or cushions are recommended for both productions...
This season City Ballet confronts its stiffest artistic challenge ever. During the last three weekends of May, Hommage a Ravel, a centenary celebration of the French composer's birth, will feature a festival of 16 new ballets against a vast fresco of Ravel music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory...
Taken coldly, Hicks is not a great painter, not even a very good one. His lions were tabby cats. He could never manage to get that "little child who shall lead them" to get her feet on the ground-she floats like a misplaced cherub from some Italian fresco. But there remains an imperturbable innocence, a kind of faith in a land that never was and can never be, that disarms all criticism and inspires a belief in the unbelievable. · RobertHughes
...rooted. No Renaissance painter has spoken more eloquently to the 20th century than Piero, with his vision of a sublimely abstract order dwelling in a thicket of concrete and manifest forms-figures, architecture, drapery; and because there were so few known paintings by him (apart from the great fresco cycle in Arezzo), the night's work in Urbino seemed less of a theft than a lobotomy. "The theft of the Raphael and the Piero della Francesca masterpieces is a loss beyond measurement," said Italy's leading art historian and critic Giulio Carlo Argan. "It's as though...
...springing poses, the search for an atmosphere of sublime effort. Even the mannish faces Fuseli gave his witches and bizarre courtesans hark back to Michelangelo. So, in fact, did his idea of the artist as hero: Fuseli raised this romantic chimera to a mock-religious pitch by proposing to fresco another Sistine in homage to Shakespeare. Only a few studies for this project survive; it was too grandiose and expensive to be carried out. His fixation on Michelangelo was such that when painting Sin, Pursued by Death (1794-96), one of the pictures he made to illustrate Milton...