Word: picassos
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...meal. They might be any well-heeled diners, friends, perhaps, or business colleagues. But these guests at a midnight supper in Paris' fashionable Majestic Hotel in May 1922 were the best-known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly...
...from “Chicago,” and donate the funds to the Office For The Arts at Harvard, as an endowment for House drama productions.Hanley’s expectations are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” for the Winthrop House Drama Society, with unexpected success.“We sold out all five shows,” he recalls with pride. “We were the first House play to make a significant profit. We made $900, which is sort...
Hanley’s expectations—while seemingly implausible—are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin’s "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" for the Winthrop House Drama Society, selling out all five shows and making an unprecedented...
Hanley sums up his goals for the final cast of "Chicago" in a reference to his previous work on "Picasso." "When you were watching the scene, it wasn’t a play," he recalls. "People felt like they were looking through a window—it’s the goal of theater, a scene of life." That has been Hanley’s guiding vision throughout the Common Casting process: the hope of making his expansive dreams very real...
...Boys. So heartfelt and persuasive was his embrace of L.A. that within a few years his lambent paintings of lawn sprinklers, swimming pools and palm trees became part of everybody's mental picture of the place. Although he saw it all through eyes schooled in Piero della Francesca and Picasso, you could tell that what he loved above all was simply how of-the-moment L.A. was, with its sunstruck hedonism and emerging sexual freedoms, so unlike the confines of postwar Britain. It's useful to recall that one of Hockney's enduring contributions to the history of the nude...