It was the most expensive art heist in American history. In March 1990, two thieves disguised as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and successfully plundered five hundred million dollars worth of art. Follow the art detective assigned to the case in the documentary Stolen. Watch online. Originally aired 2/2007.
Susan Haskins & Michael Riedel interview Bartlett Sher, director of the Tony Award-winning revival. Plus: encore of 1999 celebration of “South Pacific’s 50th Anniversary”, with Don Fellows and Ted Chapin; Features clips from both the 1949 and 2008 productions. Watch now.
Established in 2001, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Award — a cash prize of $25,000 — recognizes an American artist younger than 50 who has produced a significant body of work and consistently demonstrates exceptional creativity. Here are the 2008 nominees.
Most of us don’t have the opportunity to be in Beijing for the Olympics, but Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s new work – The Copier, by Jill Johnson – might satisfy the interests of at least a few fans. The company’s dancers are essentially world-class athletes, capable of doing things most of us can’t even dream of. Read more…
Animation reigns this week at Reel 13. You voted for your favorite, now find out which film won.
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…
This film profiles political painter Leon Golub, whose massive canvases depict startling tragedies. His artistic journey was shared with his wife and studio partner of 50 years, the prominent anti-war and feminist artist, Nancy Spero. Originally aired as just ‘Golub’ in 1990, the film was updated and lengthened in 2004. Watch now.
As cross-cultural borders get fuzzier, we are seeing so-called “uptown” performers — musicians you’d have expected in the past to see only at places like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center — now appearing in club settings. One of them is violinist Eugene Drucker. Read an interview with SundayArts blog writer Jennifer Melick.
What’s real minimalism? It’s not there at all. And that’s exactly what happened to Rhys Chatham’s eagerly awaited piece for 200 electric guitars, A Crimson Grail, on Friday night. But what about the other two performers — Beata Viscera and Manuel Göttsching? Read more…
Director David Gordon Green’s new major motion picture effort, Pineapple Express, is about “a stoner and his dealer forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.” The film is a bit of a departure for Green, who made his name directing Southern Gothic coming of age tales set in small rural towns.
