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domestic, hotels, nutcracker exilewarriors
7:03 am
George Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker’ is considered the definitive interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent 1891 score, and the New York City Ballet’s performance is regarded by many as the definitive performance of Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker’. The magic of the playroom when the humans aren’t around is brought to life by a cast that includes 100 children from the School of American Ballet. The idea of a little girl locked in mortal combat with a rodent king may seem a little like that Hollywood violence everybody’s complaining about, but ‘The Nutcracker’ is considered an indispensable part of the New York child’s education.
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1953
Tuesday, Dec 29 2009
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1953, foreign, hotels, international exilewarriors
2:00 am
Autumn’s latest English-language show is this production of Craig Raine’s play, which transposes Racine’s ‘Andromaque’ to a fictional post-WW2 Europe. The Allies have lost the war and Hitler has sent a man to Italy to recover the son of the late King of England, much to the chagrin of King Mussolini, who is in love with the sometime Queen. The show is performed in English and French, with subtitles as an integral part of the show.
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conceptualism, flights, global, holiday, travel exilewarriors
2:01 am
The always challenging List Visual Arts Center at MIT hosts this major touring group show, which features more than 200 works that survey the rise of conceptualism in the latter half of the 20th-century. The exhibition features idea-based photography, mixed media, films, videos, drawings, paintings and installations from over 130 international artists from Japan, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Australia, the United States, Korea and China.
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costume, del, galleria exilewarriors
2:01 am
The Costume Gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence has just re-opened after two years of restoration work. The museum, housed in the Palazzina della Meridiana built by Grand Duke Leopold of Lorena in 1776, contains over 6,000 costumes dating from the 17th-century to the present day, and constitutes the oldest collection of its kind. The latest addition is a donation by Gianfranco Ferré of 300 of his own pieces – both clothes and accessories – from haute couture and prêt-à-porter-collections from 1986.
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baskets, foreign, fun, holiday, woven exilewarriors
4:49 am
Brightly coloured and intricately patterned telephone wire baskets are fast gaining international recognition as a new and vibrant art form. The tradition of weaving coiled baskets, from strips of coloured telephone wire, originated in the urban areas of Kwazulu Natal and many of the bowls with their distinctive geometric patterns have become colectors items. This superb exhibition is a collaberation between well known French artist Herve Di Rosa and members of the Syanda Wire Weavers Collective who worked together to create some interesting adaptations to traditional basket weaving.
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U-571
Wednesday, Dec 16 2009
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foreign, fun, u-571 exilewarriors
2:02 am
Rip-roaring, if historically inaccurate, old-fashioned WWII movie in which the US Navy steal a German encryption device from a U-boat scuttled in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
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foreign, hotels, krídla, slávy, travel exilewarriors
5:15 am
‘Wings of Glory’ is one of the city’s major art exhibitions of the year, housed appropriately at Prague’s foremost private gallery space, the Rudolfinum. This national shrine, one of the country’s proudest achievements of the nation-building 19th-century, could hardly be better host for Krídla slávy. Epic works that romanticise and glorify ideas of state, homeland and identity fill the high-ceilinged rooms. It’s hard not to get swept up in the fervour, looking at depictions of angels and war heroes, wise founding fathers and impossibly redolent landscapes. French nationalist painting is also featured extensively.
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