Warner Classics have put together a six-minute highlights video of Joyce DiDonato‘s Stella di Napoli album launch concert at the Gowanus Ballroom above the Serett Metalworks factory in Brooklyn. DiDonato in her sequined ruby gown and flashy new hair-do remarks about the atmosphere of the place, so different to the Wigmore Hall: It reminds me […]
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Annigoni’s great 1950s painting of the Queen goes on show for the first time in 26 years in the Diamond Jubilee Exhibition
One of the greatest royal portraits of the twentieth century, Pietro Annigoni’s 1954-5 painting of The Queen is to go on public display for the first time in 26 years at the National Portrait’s Gallery’s The Queen: Art and Image exhibition, it was announced today. It will be shown on the same wall as the […]
Mikhail Baryshnikov on boycotts, ballet, ‘Black Swan’, Studio 54, ‘Sex and the City’, contemporary dance and being a sex symbol
As “In Paris” arrives in Tel Aviv for nine performances, Mikhail Baryshnikov talked to Elad Samorzik of Haaretz: On age and repertoire “Listen, I am 63 years-old. It depends what you’re dancing. The piece we did with Anna Laguna we played ourselves, our age. We are not dancing ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ You know, pas de deux. […]
How long have they been waiting? Warhol’s Elizabeth Taylor portrait to be auctioned
In a statement today that sounds as if they couldn’t wait for her to die, auctioneers Phillips de Pury revealed that a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol will go under the hammer in New York on May 12. “Liz #5” was painted in 1963 and is expected to fetch as much as $30 million. “Liz #5 […]
