In 1913, a young Italian painter wrote an impassioned letter of admiration to composer Balilla Pratella after being witness to a performance of his symphony at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome: “While I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music, there came to my mind the idea of a new
An artist offers up the details of his private life, engaging the voyeur and fearmonger in each of us.
Anything free is usually worth what you’ve paid, but not in this case – well, not exactly. The Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan accepts suggested donations (read: free) on Saturdays from 5:45pm – 7:45pm, a tasty morsel of information for money-strapped New Yorkers. But true art lovers beware: this show is worth the long lines
We at Hydra are sweetly and horribly and obsessively infatuated with the cosmic, or the sometime preferred “galactic consciousness.” But we’re not the only ones. Here’s your Friday Cosmic Rundown from across the blogosphere. Why do I pretend like this is a normal weekly update ? In the 1970s NASA’s Ames Research Center commissioned
Throughout his career, Stanley Kubrick did extensive, obsessive research on all his films. In 2001, journalist Jon Ronson was invited to visit Kubrick's family home at Childwickbury Manor, where he discovered dozens of trailers filled with archival boxes. Some of the boxes had been unopened for decades. Ronson's resulting documentary, "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes," is
A frequent dualism inherent in the films of Jacques Audiard is the amorous frisson made from matching icy elegance to jagged brutality. Audiard's "A Prophet" updates the French post-noir tradition by exploring how the brutal and finer codes of life merge in the criminal existence of a young man.
The show "Yacht Rock," created by J. D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair, is a fictionalized account of how seminal yacht rock anthems such as "What a Fool Believes," "Rosanna," and "Keep the Fire" came to be. The cast includes key players Michael McDonald (the husky-voiced baritone of Steely Dan and the Doobie
After eleven years of anticipation, yours and mine surely, Blizzard Entertainment finally released, at the end of last month, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Still, one question lingers concerning video games. And we can thank film critic Roger Ebert for lighting the fire under the conversation. Can video games be art?
A brief history of moon hoaxes, from Adams Locke to Dr. Dre.
