Devastated by the Pacific Palisades Fire: publisher of works of Arnold Schoenberg
Jan
14
2025
ed. note: We learned of the brutal fate of Belmont Publishing from the grandson of Arnold Schoenberg, a friend of artsmeme, Randol Schoenberg. This sad story we publish here while offering the Schoenberg family our deepest condolences The fire that ravaged the Pacific Palisades community in early January left a trail of devastation, and unfortunately, ...
Merce Cunningham goddess Carolyn Brown enters modern-dance eternity
Jan
13
2025
Carolyn Brown and Merce Cunningham in Suite for Five. Photograph by Marvin Silver, 1968, courtesy Cunningham Trust It’s all in the photo. An unusual pose, but Merce Cunningham rolled that way … unusual. Of the early female Cunningham dancers — Viola Farber and Sandra Neels, each an iconoclastic dancer — Carolyn Brown formed a threesome. ...
Colman Domingo’s star power galvanizes new film, ‘Sing Sing’
Director Greg Kwedar, Colman Domingo, Jane Fonda, Clarence Maclin attend A24’s Sing Sing Screening hosted by Jane Fonda, London Hotel in Los Angeles, Sat Jan 4, 2025 Following his Oscar-nominated turn as the civil rights leader in Rustin (2023), Colman Domingo is back in the awards spotlight this year with Sing Sing. The critically acclaimed ...
Clothes make the man, in ‘Monte Cristo’ & ‘West Side Story’
If clothes make the man in real life, then it’s only more so in the movies. That’s when an audience is maximally focused and alert, and processing quick information about characters. I found myself repeatedly distracted, in an awesome way, by the stunning men’s wear in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2024), which I recently ...
Doubling down: MOMO, major Naharin work for Batsheva Dance Company, soon at Music Center
Jan
7
2025
“Sorrow and beauty” forms a bittersweet promise augured in Batsheva Dance Company‘s upcoming performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, February 14-16, in which a challenging-looking full-evening work dating to 2022 by choreographer Ohad Naharin, MOMO, will have its North American premiere. It is the first time the groundbreaking and influential national dance company of Israel ...
‘The Brutalist’ leads crop of Oscar hopefuls exploring Jewish-American experience
As awards season heats up in Los Angeles, The Brutalist seems to be a likely (arguably, the likely) frontrunner for Best Picture at the upcoming Oscars on March 2, certainly for those who’ve seen it. But that last bit is an important caveat. For, with a running time of three hours, twenty minutes (and a ...