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...Joey choreographs a modern ballet based on the true story of expatriate German painter Walter Spies, who arrived in Bali in 1927. Spies single-handedly established Ubud as a bohemian destination, but he was later jailed for buggery by the then colonial Dutch authorities. Joey casts himself as Spies and finds a teenage Balinese dancer to play the painter's 16-year-old boyfriend. A rave pre-performance review raises expectations within the New York art world. But the show bombs when it moves to the big city, and Joey's life unravels. Bali has unleashed his naked ambition...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...brother-in-law gave a sampling of Zhang's nature photographs to a painter in Beijing who managed to place them on the desk of China's Minister of Culture. In the spring of 1978, Zhang was summoned by his factory's Party secretary and told to report to the newly reopened Beijing Film Academy. That fall, at the age of 27, without having sat a qualifying exam, he became a member of the academy's first post-Cultural Revolution class of photography students. "I thought maybe if I could get good enough at photography, my factory would transfer...
Battling years of grime with cotton swabs, gentle solvents and boundless patience, a group of Harvard conservators has begun restoring one of American painter John Singer Sargent’s most complex works...
While Sargent preferred to work on the murals, his fame and demand as a portrait painter often got in the way of the project’s completion...