Superfluities Redux
A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater
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Monday, 03 May 2010 New issue of Hyperion now on lineThe May 2010 issue of Hyperion: On the future of aesthetics is now on line, the journal re-appearing after a too-long hiatus. Of special interest in this issue is a special section on dramatist Howard Barker, also the subject of next Monday's Howard Barker at the Segal Center event. For those unfamiliar with Barker's recent work, Hyperion is a
treasure- Of special interest are the paintings by Barker which illustrate the essays, of which very few have been available on line or in print, revealing a remarkable visual imagination that parallels that of his dramatic and lyric work. And that's not all, of course; this issue of Hyperion also features a previously untranslated series of aphorisms by E.M. Cioran, several poems, and discussions of Butoh theatre as well as the work of Kleist, Peter Greenaway, Le Corbusier and William Eggleston. It is a splendid issue; I will post a link to the full printable .pdf as soon as it's available. For now, you can visit the Web version here. Posted in /Publications Monday, 03 May 2010 Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
Margalit Fox reports in the 30 April issue of The New York Times the death of Avigdor Arikha, an Israeli painter "whose work captured both the haunting beauty and the looming menace of everyday things, a vision informed in no small part by his experience as a Holocaust survivor." Arikha was a close friend of Samuel Beckett's, the dramatist who served as the subject of several sketches by the artist, as well as How It Was, a fine small memoir by Arikha's widow Anne Atik. A small selection of Arikha's work appears along with the obituary here. Posted in /RIP |
