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...international cooperation.” Winners receive a 750,000-Euro prize intended to fund future research. Payne said her upcoming book, “Modern Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects,” will look at buildings and monuments from the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the German-speaking world including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Although she wrote about the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy for her first book, she said she has always studied both early modern and modern architecture. Payne looks at architecture “in the context...
...takes a specific directorial vision to bring [Lorca’s play] to life in the twentieth century,” Wenger explains. “Mary has done that...
Camille Paglia critiques the twentieth century’s most famous men and women of letters. Read the review of Paglia's book "Break, Blow, Burn" and the profile of Paglia...
...uniquely complemented each character’s suffering in their simple styles. The mother’s dress was the piece de resistance, a frumpy black robe that evoked a pelican in its stuffy folds.The music, compiled by Dorin, is fundamental to the show. Although the mix of late twentieth-century Soviet chamber works and Chopin is overwhelming during the initial “Isle of the Dead” sequence, its more delicate application to the interludes between the scenes of “Pelican” is particularly well done, supplementing the haunted quality of the work...
...mention raunchiness) of this production is bound to keep some viewers from liking the opera. Regardless of whether you end up enjoying yourself or not, “The Threepenny Opera” is definitely worth seeing. Take the chance that you might be floored by this twentieth-century classic. —Staff writer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...