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...that Kentridge fused his interests to create the animated short “Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris.” The film introduces Soho Eckstein, a Johannesburg businessman physically modeled after Kentridge and ideologically based on his grandfather, seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him. Soho leads his daily life in cleanly boxed rooms that contrast the violence of the outside world. He is accompanied by his alter ego, Felix Teitlebaum, a dreamy character who competes for Soho’s wife...
Kentridge went on to make seven more films in the Soho Eckstein series, each winning increasing international acclaim. In 1997, his work was featured in “Documenta X,” a cutting-edge art show in Kassel, Germany, which launched him into the spotlight. In 1998, filmmaker Reinhard Wulf and art historian Maria Anna Tappeiner filmed Drawing the Passing, a documentary on Kentridge’s creation of Stereoscope, the eighth film in the Soho Eckstein series. This documentary helped bring his work to wider audiences. Stereoscope premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
...play “Heroes,” which I saw a few weeks ago, exposes the New York spirit—a spirit he shares. The two twenty-something protagonists shed their mundane workaday lives to fight crime as real life superheroes, eventually capturing the “SoHo strangler.” They, like Brady and all real New Yorkers, seek to live extraordinarily; they want something more; they need to be unique...
...York's Soho Grand and Tribeca Grand hotels recently launched a Red Eye Relief package for "weary travelers in need of a little extra T.L.C." Upon request, rooms are made rest ready, with shades drawn, bed turned down and Glaceau vitamin water, Visine, earplugs and eye mask stationed within easy reach...
DIED. HOLLY SOLOMON, 68, influential, experimental art dealer and fashionista who championed unknown artists like Robert Kushner and helped make New York City's Soho neighborhood into a center for new art in the 1970s; of complications from pneumonia after battling cancer; in New York City. Known as the Pop Princess for her admiration of Pop Art, she was the subject of famous portraits by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, below...