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Remembering Paul Bowles

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larbi Layachi, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alice B. Toklas, William Burroughs, Mohamed Choukri, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dali. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Bowles, Warhol, Virgil Thomson, Debra Winger, Tennessee Williams. Lillian Hellman, W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Ned Rorem, John Malkovich. Sara Driver, Ahmed Yacoubi, Books News
Regina Weinreich

In our age of instant fame, it is useful to think about an artist who was famous for not being in the limelight. In Bowles' time, the cult of personality was taking hold.

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First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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America's Most Prominent Emerging Poets Respond to the Obama Administration

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empire, Political Ideology, Writing Workshops, Political Language, Hope, Elizabeth Alexander, Rachel Zucker, Obama, Creative Writing, Allen Ginsberg, Political Literature, Workshop Poetry, Poetry, Inaugural Poem, Arielle Greenberg, Change, Rita Dove, W. H. Auden, Democratic Party, Political Poetry, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days, Books News
Anis Shivani

Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg asked one hundred of the best-known emerging American poets to respond with a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days. The resulting anthology is very revealing.

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A Villanelle to Oxford Skullduggery

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, Oxford, Elizabeth Bishop, Villanelle, The Poetic Life, Healthy Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

With apologies to every proper Villanelle ever written.

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Bless This House

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leos Janacek, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tyler Angle, Ballet, Michelle Williams, Bruno Moretti, Alexei Ratmansky, Salzburg Festival, Brussels Opera House La Monnaie, The Rake?S Progress, W. H. Auden, Robert Wilson, Ashley Bouder, Paris Opera, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Gérard Mortier, Opera, George Balanchine, Charles Wuorinen, Peter Martins, Film, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Gelb, Rudolph Bing, Goeran Gentele, The Markopulos Case, Pierre Boulez, Mauro Bigonzetti, Brokeback Mountain, Metropolitan Opera House, Pelléas Et Mélisande, Einstein on the Beach, Wendy Whelan, Death in Venice, Heath Ledger, Gesamtkunstwerk, Debussy, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.

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