Robert Lepage’s production design is unforgettable, and the giant machine that serves as its centerpiece is distinctive enough to seem like its own character.
Richard Wagner
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The Long Shadow of Artificial Darkness on Modern Culture
The emergence of artificial darkness in the 19th century, from the darkroom to the theater, radically influenced our experiences with art.
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Wagner with Quotes on: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’
Director/writer Richard Maxwell was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, an unusual, though not undeserved, honor for a theater director. His Isolde, now running at the Abrons Arts Center, is a departure from his recent work, a surprisingly conventional play, which he presents in his customary flat, affectless fashion.
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Bill Viola’s Moving Void
PARIS — Free-floating habits are often hard to abandon. The term “video” as a definable medium — and thus “video art” — is now essentially archaic, due to the convergence of all capture technologies into post-media computer manipulated moving image/sound files.