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...play to 20,000 or 30,000 people a night. Many of the fans that do come out are people that have been listening for years. They bring their kids. They know the history. It is nice to see that second generation Queensryche fan coming out," said Geoff Tate, lead singer of Queensryche, which toured with Black Sabbath this summer. The bands played to crowds 10,000 strong...
...later to New York City and Dallas, is Eliasson's first American museum show. It arrives at a time when he's the object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month run, more than...
Since his success at the Tate, projects have proliferated-a light wall for the Oslo Opera House, a kind of artwork/observatory tower in London, the sets for a touring opera. Eliasson lives in Copenhagen with his wife, an art historian, and the two children they adopted from Ethiopia. But his studio is in Berlin, where he employs 30 or more people. On any given day he may collaborate with technicians, architects and mathematicians. Yet the finished product is often remarkably simple. You could say that some combination of straightforward means and subtle effects is the signature of Eliasson's best...
...winter—being put up in the summer, simply because it demands so much more analysis than a casual museum-goer is willing to give. Rather, summer exhibitions feel like summer movies, complete with high-budget special effects (for example, Salvador Dalí, at London’s Tate Modern), easily digested storylines (Hopper, at the MFA), and big-name stars (Cezanne and Picasso, at the Musée d’Orsay). Granted, you snack on a 12-dollar turkey-and-avocado sandwich instead of 4-dollar popcorn, but you enjoy the A/C for two hours and walk...
...October, the Tate Modern (6) will present the work of avant-garde artist Louise Bourgeois. Plus, among the best free sights in London are exhibitions in the massive Turbine Hall tate.org.uk/modern) The Tate's neighbor, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, hosts Love's Labour's Lost until Oct. 7 shakespeares-globe.org...