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...State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like all German arts organizations, the Staatsoper relies heavily on state funds. This year, it will receive about €44 million in subsidies out of a total budget of €66 million. Less than 1% of the opera's money comes from...
...first-years pulse to a grinding beat in a Mather suite under a shower of beer falling from the cans held high above their heads. A typical scene…from the Harvard Radcliffe Television (HRTV) soap opera “Ivory Tower...
...this material is that we can use it on curved surfaces, but we can also swag it like a textile to provide shading and cut out glare on windows," says Rick Haldenby, director of the school. So theoretically the curves of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Sydney Opera House could be covered, as could lap-tops and cell phones, to generate their own power. The future, it seems, will be jeanetically modified. - By Robin Banerji
...week. It's evident even in the work of featured artists who hail from Japan or Turkey. Shizuka Yokomizo photographs strangers at their windows by appointment - a perfect comment on the land of net curtains. Kutlug Ataman devoted earlier film and video work to a transvestite and a faded opera star. Now, in The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read, he chronicles a year in the life of the woman who keeps Britain's official collection of amaryllis lily varieties in her West London apartment. Rather than showcasing the next big trend or school, "Days Like These," the gallery's second...
Using an English version of the Italian original (adapted by Daniel Pippin), the DHO has managed to put on Gioachino Rossini’s famous 1817 opera with both aplomb and creativity. Pippin’s clever English rendition doubtlessly makes the opera much more accessible to those not already enamored with the art form...