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| 4 portals to creative greatness — all from the comfort of your couch | 4 portals to creative greatness — all from the comfort of your couch |
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| When you can’t go out to see art, or dance, or live music, or sport, you tend to stop thinking of all these things in categorical terms. As in: “I like art,” or “I like baseball.” You think, instead, of what specific art, or sporting moments, you can’t do without. | When you can’t go out to see art, or dance, or live music, or sport, you tend to stop thinking of all these things in categorical terms. As in: “I like art,” or “I like baseball.” You think, instead, of what specific art, or sporting moments, you can’t do without. |
| Or so I’ve found. Some people revert to the literary classics, the Old Masters, and why not? But there are examples of exceptional creativity in every period, including our own. They may be harder to agree on (consensus takes shape over time) but precisely because they emerge from recent times, they can feel more urgent, and definitely more vivid. | Or so I’ve found. Some people revert to the literary classics, the Old Masters, and why not? But there are examples of exceptional creativity in every period, including our own. They may be harder to agree on (consensus takes shape over time) but precisely because they emerge from recent times, they can feel more urgent, and definitely more vivid. |
| Here are four portals to creative greatness. Take your pick. | Here are four portals to creative greatness. Take your pick. |
| We’re alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties. | We’re alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties. |
| Wim Wenders made a film about the great, late dance choreographer Pina Bausch. I hear it’s wonderful, but I haven’t seen it and don’t think I ever will. That’s because, in my 20s, I saw a different film about Pina Bausch, this one by the (also late and great) Chantal Akerman, and it made such an impression on me that I haven’t wanted to let anything interfere with it. It’s called “One Day Pina Asked …” and you can stream it on Amazon. When I watched it again recently, I fell in love — again. It’s full of emotion. It’s only an hour long. Pina Bausch … was amazing. icarusfilms.com/if-pina. Available via Amazon streaming. | Wim Wenders made a film about the great, late dance choreographer Pina Bausch. I hear it’s wonderful, but I haven’t seen it and don’t think I ever will. That’s because, in my 20s, I saw a different film about Pina Bausch, this one by the (also late and great) Chantal Akerman, and it made such an impression on me that I haven’t wanted to let anything interfere with it. It’s called “One Day Pina Asked …” and you can stream it on Amazon. When I watched it again recently, I fell in love — again. It’s full of emotion. It’s only an hour long. Pina Bausch … was amazing. icarusfilms.com/if-pina. Available via Amazon streaming. |
| 4 ways to reconnect with dance, theater, opera — and joy — during your self-quarantine | 4 ways to reconnect with dance, theater, opera — and joy — during your self-quarantine |
| There is in the music of Frank Ocean a level of natural musicality as well as an incredible gift for storytelling and complex emotion — oh, and a beautiful voice — that I see nowhere else in contemporary popular music. So listen this weekend if you’re in the mood, to lots of Frank Ocean. And if you want to find out more, try Season 3 of “Dissect,” an acclaimed podcast by Cole Cuchna. As a guide, Cuchna can be too earnest for my liking — Kirk Hamilton’s “Strong Songs” podcast is much more fun, much zippier — but Cuchna is astute and digs into lots of juicy stuff. You come away with a deep appreciation for Ocean’s wild ambition and all-around brilliance. dissectpodcast.com. Available via Spotify. | There is in the music of Frank Ocean a level of natural musicality as well as an incredible gift for storytelling and complex emotion — oh, and a beautiful voice — that I see nowhere else in contemporary popular music. So listen this weekend if you’re in the mood, to lots of Frank Ocean. And if you want to find out more, try Season 3 of “Dissect,” an acclaimed podcast by Cole Cuchna. As a guide, Cuchna can be too earnest for my liking — Kirk Hamilton’s “Strong Songs” podcast is much more fun, much zippier — but Cuchna is astute and digs into lots of juicy stuff. You come away with a deep appreciation for Ocean’s wild ambition and all-around brilliance. dissectpodcast.com. Available via Spotify. |
| J.M.W. Turner was a great painter; the Frick is a great museum. (Is the word “great” overused? Maybe, but I think it’s lately lost its luster. I’m trying to bring it back.) Like almost every other art museum, the Frick is closed to the public. But on Fridays, it hosts an online, end-of-week gift to both mind and sense that it calls “Cocktails with a Curator.” Last week it was a relaxed and informative talk about John Constable’s “The White Horse” with curator Aimee Ng, accompanied by the Queen of England’s favorite tipple, Gin and Dubonnet. This week, Xavier F. Salomon will talk us through J.M.W. Turner’s “Harbor of Dieppe,” with the help of a Widow’s Kiss, which combines Calvados with Benedictine and yellow Chartreuse. I better get to the liquor store! frick.org/cocktails_curator. Also available via YouTube. | J.M.W. Turner was a great painter; the Frick is a great museum. (Is the word “great” overused? Maybe, but I think it’s lately lost its luster. I’m trying to bring it back.) Like almost every other art museum, the Frick is closed to the public. But on Fridays, it hosts an online, end-of-week gift to both mind and sense that it calls “Cocktails with a Curator.” Last week it was a relaxed and informative talk about John Constable’s “The White Horse” with curator Aimee Ng, accompanied by the Queen of England’s favorite tipple, Gin and Dubonnet. This week, Xavier F. Salomon will talk us through J.M.W. Turner’s “Harbor of Dieppe,” with the help of a Widow’s Kiss, which combines Calvados with Benedictine and yellow Chartreuse. I better get to the liquor store! frick.org/cocktails_curator. Also available via YouTube. |
| Series: Great Works, In Focus | Series: Great Works, In Focus |
| But, um, who was really “The Greatest”? You got it. And so this weekend you should consider re-watching “When We Were Kings,” the greatest sports documentary of them all. But also check out the website of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It has a page, with text by Katie Knowles, devoted to the white terry cloth robe Muhammad Ali wore while training at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami. This was the period that saw him convert to Islam and change his name from Cassius Clay. His new name is sewn on the back in big black letters — indelibly. Available via Cinemax and HBO Now. nmaahc.si.edu. | But, um, who was really “The Greatest”? You got it. And so this weekend you should consider re-watching “When We Were Kings,” the greatest sports documentary of them all. But also check out the website of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It has a page, with text by Katie Knowles, devoted to the white terry cloth robe Muhammad Ali wore while training at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami. This was the period that saw him convert to Islam and change his name from Cassius Clay. His new name is sewn on the back in big black letters — indelibly. Available via Cinemax and HBO Now. nmaahc.si.edu. |