Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ORGANIZERS of the M.I.T. exhibit have deliberately chosen works that reveal the range and variety of Brassai's interests. There are scenes of Paris at night and portraits of Brassai's friends and fellow artists--Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Giacometti--surrounded in their studios by their paintings and tools. Several examples of Brassai's graffiti, pictures of the signs and symbols men have carved into or painted on the urban environment to proclaim their existence, are shown...
When Meade Esposito, a Brooklyn Democratic leader, admired a Picasso lithograph in Rockefeller's office in Albany, Rocky sent one to him as a gift...
Originally, it was a typically all-star Diaghilev collaboration. The score, based on Pergolesi themes, is landmark Stravinsky-his first explorative venture into neoclassicism. Pablo Picasso designed the sets and costumes, and the choreography was by Leonide Massine, who succeeded Nijinsky as Diaghilev's premier danseur. Massine, now 78, danced the title role at the Paris opening, and he was on hand to help Jeffrey reconstruct the work...
Clearly a lot of TLC went into the staging of Pulcinella, but to uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated by typewriter sounds, gunshots and tidbits of ragtime...