With Systematic Landscapes, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art through July 12, 2009, Maya Lin brings landscapes into an art gallery. This one, generative, earthly reality is an unsought gift to every human being. Systematic Landscapes presents works that make visible within the Corcoran Gallery unseeable forms of this gift. The works build upon familiar … Continue reading Systematic Landscapes transforms public space
Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, a recent, magnificent exhibition at the Sackler Gallery, included paintings memorializing the life of Maharaja Bakhat Singh. He was an eighteenth-century Rathore-Rajput ruler of the Jodhpur-Marwar kingdom, now in the Indian state of Rajasthan. A number of paintings depict the royal, cultured Bakhat Singh at his Nagaur … Continue reading responding to the maharaja and the ogre
The Heaven on Earth exhibit includes large, beautifully illuminated choir books from medieval Europe from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. … Read the post Heaven on Earth: media in the Middle Ages
Euripides’ ancient Greek play Ion shows the god Apollo to be violent, immoral, and duplicitous. We moderns don’t imagine gods to be like this. Neither did Ion, a foundling raised within Apollo’s Delphi temple to serve its needs. The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Ion, directed by Ethan McSweeny, brings together family drama, bildungsroman, Broadway … Continue reading Shakespeare Theatre's tragic Ion
Abou Lagraa and his dance company Cie La Baraka blessed the Kennedy Center with wonderfully inventive choreography and an amazing range of movement qualities in a performance of Lagraa’s work Allegoria Stanza on March 3. Part of the Kennedy Center’s festival Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World, the performance expanded dances, gestures, and street rhythms … Continue reading fullness of movement