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Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Pretty much everything that was considered cool, experimental or groundbreaking in art, film, theater and music in the 20th century can be traced back in one way or another to the Dada group, formed by Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Jean Arp and Marcel Janco, amongst other notables. It all started at the Cabaret Volatire in Zurich, but Dada found its true circulatory center in post-war Paris where the...
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Classical Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is so dramatic it hardly needs staging. Stravinsky wanted the text in Latin, deliberately distancing the text from listeners, to further strengthen the idea of ancient, impenetrable mystery. So a story of ancient Greece, written first in French by Jean Cocteau and back-translated into Latin. Setting this performance in Japanese pre-history extends the idea that this saga is...
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Mantex ... (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Peggy Guggenheim came from a family of rich Jewish business people who had made fortunes as immigrants in the nineteenth century from trade, mining, and eventually banking. Her father was a womaniser who died aboard the Titanic in 1913 - putting on his dinner clothes to go down in style. When she was nineteen she inherited five million dollars, though as Mary Dearborn points out in this fairly even-handed...
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