1 February 2011
“Balanchine was rather reserved,” noted Barbara Horgan, the choreographer’s longtime assistant. “But he adored Lorenz Hart [the troubled but brilliant lyricist of Rogers & Hart songwriting team].” [...]
31 January 2011
United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will adjudicate a mock trial of Hamlet, Crown Prince of Denmark. The trial takes place tonight on the USC campus. [...]
15 January 2011
Fans of the iconoclastic music maker Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, gathered at the Echoplex off Sunset Boulevard to swap reminiscences, view video, and listen to music by Magic Band guitarist, Gary Lucas. [...]
1 January 2011
The world is one-one-one-one today. Happy birthday world.
29 December 2010 Watch this video and become an arts journalist at the New York Times. [...]
13 December 2010
“Lucretia” had me riveted for another reason. I had just reviewed Darren Aronofsky’s overheated gothic horror flick, Black Swan. The director and his all-male screenwriting team subject their female characters to as numbing a level of disrespect as possible without being pornographic. [...]
9 December 2010 arts•meme received a lovely honor by recently being names one of the fifty best ballet blogs (we assume in the universe) by the ‘guide to art schools.’ [...]
6 July 2010
A stimulating encounter between two intense performers: Choreographer Elizabeth Streb and wire-walker Philippe Petit engaged in folie-a-deux at Conversations at the Hammer Museum last week.
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9 June 2010
Cult film director John Waters describes his lifelong affection for singer Johnny Mathis in a book reading in Los Angeles. [...]
5 June 2010 artsmeme enjoyed Josh Kun’s “Get Down, Moses” listening party at the Skirball Center in tandem with the Jews on Vinyl exhibit. [...]
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