Ask anyone around during the late ’80s and early ’90s what they think of when they hear the name Milli Vanilli today, and one of two events will likely come to mind. There’s the 1989 concert where the pop duo’s hit song “Girl You Know It’s True” began skipping through the loudspeakers, alerting their massive…
The former Italian prime minister, who died in June, bought many of the paintings and sculptures from late-night telesales programmes. Managing the extensive collection is proving a headache for his descendants. – BBC Source link
Stephen Sondheim had a genius for genre. Some of his best works were adapted from very niche sources like penny dreadfuls (“Sweeney Todd”), epistolary novels (“Passion”) and Roman comedies (“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”). Leaning hard into their specific styles, he mined their expressive potential in songs that could hardly…
Amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, an open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire circulated online earlier this week, receiving signatures from more than 2,000 visual artists, writers, and actors. On Saturday, an Israeli response to that open letter began circulating. On October 7, roughly 1,400 Israeli citizens were murdered, while another 3,500 were wounded,…
On the morning of October 7, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, was on her way back to Israel from a conference in Florence. While waiting for a connecting flight in Rome, she got a call from the museum’s head of exhibitions: There are rockets flying over Tel Aviv. That by…