August 9, 2011
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This is about the culture that Chautauqua makes.
Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution most often shows the culture of others in its galleries — collections of work on themes selected by the curators, from other institutions or by artists selected for the annual national invitational.
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August 7, 2011
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Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears…
August 5, 2011
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The sound raised into the dying of the light. It showed the heart of the orchestra. It appeared at the edge, where things are precious and vulnerable, a smaller sound than expected.
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August 3, 2011
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A trace: The poetics of a line which leads toward discovery, a mark of meaning.
In this case, in the Strohl Art Center, the trace engages two parties along a line of aesthetic discovery growing between Iran and the United States.
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August 2, 2011
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A survival score for The Magic Flute:
- Slog through the arch nobility.
- Struggle through yet another rescue story.
- Endure the misogyny.
- Enjoy the stagecraft and the immortal music, and know that it is silliness that wins the heart in this fairy tale.
July 21, 2011
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Blue: Wavelength 440-490 nm; frequency 680-610 THz; ranging from navy blue to cyan as one of the primary colors. And there are other truths, other ways of seeing and being blue.
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July 2, 2011
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Guest Review
Such the wonder of a new way of being in the world: the proposals that remake our visions, rare celebrations like the turn toward abstraction in art during the last century.
Humankind at its best suggests new worldviews — that our ground is round instead of flat, for instance, and it is a shared amazement, like the suggestion that a star is at the center of things rather than us. And with these understandings, we are transformed.
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July 2, 2011
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Maybe you think you understood it and could even situate it within the dance vocabulary of traditional poses, moves, couplings. Perhaps that charge of Sarah Hayes Watson onto the Amphitheater stage seemed like a violation by some primal creature. Maybe you felt comfortable with that association.
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July 1, 2011
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Guest Review
And how we love our animals.
Our animals.
We tame them. We worship them. We sleep with them. We admire them. We eat them. We use them for sport, for fashion, for profit. We nurture them, cultivate them, hunt them, kill them. They are devils. They are gods.
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June 30, 2011
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Guest Review
I’m sorry, but this show is just not the way it is supposed to be.
It’s off-kilter, sometimes upside-down and usually topsy-turvy.
Give this 54th version of Chautauqua’s juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art a nudge and it would tumble over the line, across that careful border that too often marks what is right for art and what is supposedly not.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. Over the course of nine weeks, more than 170,000 visitors will participate in programs, classes and community events for all ages—all within the beautiful setting of a historic lakeside village. Learn more →
