Art:
A rare Picasso canvas (Garçon
à la Pipe)
sold at Sotheby's New York Wednesday night
for more than $104-million. Mr. Whitney, a former U.S. ambassador to
Britain and the publisher of The New York Herald Tribune, bought the Picasso
with his wife in 1950 for
$30,000..........................................................207
Rockman: Alexis
Rockman's paintings are fascinating. This is not to say that I like them
much, just that it is hard to drag yourself away from them till you have
marvelled at the scenery, devoured all their details. They keep you at it
for some time. Wonderful World, Rockman's recent suite of five large
paintings, fills the biggest space at Camden Arts Centre. The exhibition,
which opened last Friday, is the 41-year-old New Yorker's biggest show in
the UK to date, much of the work the result of a two-year research residency
based.........208-209
Twombly:
Cy Twombly is the last great American artist. Never say never, but it
seems almost inconceivable that another epic talent like his will appear in
an American art world that has spent nearly half a century dismissing its
own achievements. At the end of the second world war, art in the US
displayed unparalleled freedom, improvisation and achievement. Jackson
Pollock and his contemporaries - the abstract expressionists - seized the
high ground of modern art. In the 1950s, New York became the capital of the
20th century. The Museum of Modern Art, the dealers Betty Parsons and Leo
Castelli, the critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, defined the
new in art. American painters justified their hype: Pollock and Willem de
Kooning most of all, then Clyfford Still......................................................................210-212
27-CABARET: PROFILE
OF A
DIVA
213-217
Tremblay:
Lyne Tremblay is de facto, Canada's most sophisticated, elegant and
captivating cabaret Diva and "Femme Fatale". Her voice is an explosion
and implosion of warmth, vocal virtuosity, seduction, truthful inner
feelings and a magical "Un Je Ne Sais Quoi?". You look at Lyne and the scent
of a Parisian Diva of La Belle Epoque or "Les Annees Folles" breath over
you. You look at Lyne Tremblay, and Montmartre, Les Grands Boulevards, the
dialogues of Jean Cocteau and the whispers of adventurers, raconteurs,
charming Parisian gigolos, mysteries of Rue Le Pic, La Madelaine and the
lights and shadows of Le Chat Noire materialized before your eyes.
.................213-217
28-AMERICAN DIVAS
AND LEGENDS. A SPECIAL SERIES BY M. de LAFAYETTE 218-266
Wesla
Whitfield: Wesla Whitfield
made her own rules and enlarged the perimeter of performance excellence by
sculpting an almost perfect sense of phrasing which magically and very
tenderly reached the hearts and souls of multi-varied and demanding
audiences. She brought to the traditional world of cabaret music, a very
intimate, warm, pensive and personal musical and vocal interpretation which
defied conventionalism. This delightful defying and charmingly innovative
creativity is illustrated in the way she looks at her audience, and in an
eloquent silence pauses for a moment or two, gazes into your soul, flirt
with your thoughts, pauses briefly for another uninvited seconds when you
don't expect her to do so, and with a soft elan, she recaptures the lyrics
with a gentle explosion of lyrical finesse, intimate musical tenderness, and
surrounding you with an unusual "feeling of hearing those old songs" for
the first time.............................................218-221
Gloria
Loring: She did it all with class, beauty, intelligence, style, talent,
unique creativity, guts and warmth. And she excelled in everything she
accomplished. Grande Dame Loring is a published author, a national speaker,
a world-class actress, an international celebrity, a star of the American
cinema and television, a leading figure of the American theater and concert
halls, a singer, a composer, a lyricist, a songwriter, a producer, a
certified yoga teacher, a member of Who's Who in America and The World Who's
Who of Women and a humanitarian. This woman is almost 99.99% perfect. This
is the kind of people who create and shape the greatness of a nation. This
is the vintage of noble souls, warm hearts and bright minds who make the
sun rise and shine over the
hills.....................................................................222-228
Eileen:
Eileen Fulton, America’s stunning entertainment diva sings, acts, moves,
talks and philosophizes as the perfect “La Femme Fatale”. As enigmatic
as Marlene Dietrich, as classy as Lana Turner, as dramatic as Edith Piaf
and as warm and convincing as Simone Signoret, this American gem brings
class, beauty, elegance, intelligence, warmth, quality and divinity to the
world of American entertainment. God, sometimes, makes mistakes; he creates
now and then, an almost perfect diva. And this, infuriates Goddesses in the
firmament, confuses stage directors, disorients starlets but, it still
brings to the world, intelligent beauty, truthful talent, mesmerizing
performances, fatal charm and
enchantment.......................................232-234
Amanda:
Amanda McBroom. Today,
Amanda McBroom is the greatest cabaret songwriter/singer/entertainer in
America and in the known world. She does not need more awards and
additional recognition (s). She has more than enough, enough for centuries
to come. Nevertheless, the readers and the editorial staff of World Art
Celebrities Journal had to reveal their admiration and ultimate respect for
this Super Diva; Amanda McBroom, the best of the best, the living immortal
legend! So, what they did was very a propos. They elected her as
the “INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF THE YEAR”, America’s best and greatest female
singer/songwriter of all time. In addition, recent international polls
conducted by World Art Celebrities Journal in 125 countries and
questionnaires filled by approximately 500,000 readers and music lovers from
around the globe ascertained that Amanda McBroom has been chosen as among
the world’s top 30 best........ .....235-247
Anna
Bergman: Anna Bergman, the Femme Fatale of World Cabaret. Anna Bergman,
the Immortal Cabaret Torch and Flame singer, the thunder and Beauty
mesmerizing performer, and the Diva who glitters and shines every second and
every shadow of a second when she sings, when she talks, when she moves,
when she is here, and when she is not here, for our imagination and constant
needs to see her and to listen to her follow her wherever she goes.
Anna Bergman never knew that I saw her twice on stage. I never followed her.
I never asked for her autograph. Frankly, I care less. But, every time I am
in town, or she is in town, I have to please my madness and satisfy my
hunger for real music.....................................248-254
Debbie:
Countess Debbie de Coudreaux: Iam absolutely confident that if George
Washington had seen Debbie in his lifetime, he would have established
monarchy in America! And should the Ancient Greeks have walked in the
shadow of Countess Debbie de Coudreaux, and listened to her voice, the Greek
Pantheon and Olympus would have had one more Goddess! Debbie de
Coudreaux is America’s royalty, for she reigns over its stages, musicals,
pictures and cabaret’s world. She has class, style, looks, heart, and an
immense talent. At the Cabaret, she is the “Femme Fatale”, on stage, she
glitters like a Diva. When she dances or even when she moves she becomes
charmingly dangerous…and when she sings Paris, she becomes an addiction!
Audiences become mesmerized by her presence, enchanted by her voice and
frozen in
time......................................................................................255-266
Cindy:
Cindy Benson. Her talent shines brighter than the whole damn lights of the
city of New York, the signs of Broadway and the 4th of July
fire work, all together! And her presence on and off stage is larger than
life…
This is a superb super superstar!
She acts, she sings, she dances, she teases, she
mesmerizes, she makes you explode in laughter, she makes you cry, she steals
the show and she triumphs! She is honored all over the world. Cindy is
venerated in Europe, in Paris, at the Sorbonne, on the Champs Elysees and
in three quarter of all heavens…
There are so many outstanding performers and artists in the
world who steal the show, but there are few who steal our
hearts..........................267-270
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TALENTS
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Jenny
Sinclair: To some artists, inspiration comes from a higher source, an
ultra dimension, or perhaps a vision, an inner world of emotions. To
Jenny Sinclair, the Carpenters and her son Mickey were her creative
inspiration. Mickey, a sweet child,
was born disabled with cerebral palsy. And Jenny felt the
need to write a song about a mother's love for her child. Her love brought
life to her superb CD "Sweet Child of Mine" which was recently recorded in
Nashville Tennessee, USA.
The songs of the track are filled with warmth, beauty and sincere artistic
creativity. Jenny's voice sparkles through splashes of lights, vocal
virtuosity and tender musicality. A delightful bouquet of uplifting songs
and ballads................271
Photo: Jenny Sinclair with Richard
Carpenter.
30-ODDITIES AND CONTROVERSIES
272-274
Italian
Television: Too pretty and two sexy for Italian television. But the
outlook does not seem too bright for the first to hit the airwaves, a former
Miss Italy. She has already run into trouble for being too sexy. Italian TV
is infamous for its scantily-clad girls, who are a regular feature -
dancing, presenting or just looking pretty - usually alongside a much older,
less attractive male presenter. But Eleonora Pedron, 21, proved there is
such a thing as too sexy for Italian TV when she was suspended for doing a
rather raunchy magazine spread in Capital magazine, sporting only a
G-string. According to the presenter of the news on TV channel Rete 4, the
weather should be informative and entertaining not sexy."............272-273
Indian Film: A Hindi film about drag queens that has been denied a
certificate by the Indian Censor Board receives its UK premiere on
Thursday at the Manchester Commonwealth Institute. The Pink Mirror (Gulabi
Aaina) has been seen at more than 30 international film festivals but has
been banned in India because of its homosexual content. "The Censor Board
has refused to give it a certificate - not even an adult certificate -
because they consider it full of obscenity and vulgarity," director Sridhar
Rangayan told BBC News Online. The 40-minute short tells the story of two
drag queens - Shabbo (Edwin Fernandes) and Bibbo (Ramesh Memon) - who battle
with a westernised gay teenager for the affections of a handsome young
man...................................................273-274
Controversy: Oprah versus Howard Stern: The American tabloid
magazine reported that on March 18, millions of Americans watched an episode
of The Oprah Winfrey Show, during which an O, The Oprah Magazine
writer described in jawdropping detail, the latest fads in teen sex. Viewers
learned that a "tossed salad," had little to do with healthy eating, but
instead referred to oral sex to the anus. The guest went on to describe
"rainbow" parties -- gatherings at which a gaggle of lipstick- wearing girls
provide oral sex to one or more males. For this, declares shock jock Howard
Stern, 50, Oprah should come under the same scrutiny as he has over his
notoriously raunchy broadcasts. Since 1990, the Federal Communications
Commission has levied fines, totaling close to $2 million, against Howard's
show........................................................274
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Deborah:
Deborah Boily was at Jermyn Street in 2002 in a show called I’ve Got My
Standards…Now & Then! This cabaret, which debuted in New York, went on
to Houston, London and Paris. Revised and re-named Thank You For The Music,
it was recorded live in June of 2003 and was recently released on the LML
Music label. Deborah Boily has recorded two previous CDs, A French
Collection and The Song Remembers When. Born in Louisiana, Deborah Boily,
who now lives in Houston, Texas, is grounded in American songs, standards as
well as contemporary, by songwriters ranging from The Gershwins to The
Bergmans, Jason Robert Brown and John Bucchino......................................................................................................275
32-International Arts
News
276-278
Sanford
Biggers: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of
America.
The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) presents Sanford Biggers “Both/And Not
Either/Or”, an exhibition that will embrace Japanese hip-hop, Buddhist
tradition, and African-American power on May 28 through August 16. Sanford
Biggers is a New York-based artist whose sculptural installations draw from
a remarkably diverse range of sources, including Eastern religions, black
vernacular expression, 1970s process art, urban street culture, and new
technologies. He works with discarded and overlooked materials—linoleum,
lumber, recyclables—seamlessly blending ancient and contemporary, local and
global images to encourage a reconsideration and revaluation of everyday
experience and meditation on the interconnectedness of all people and
cultures....................................................................................................................................276
The
beauty of failure. Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
The Joan Miro Foundation presents
“The beauty o failure / The failure of beauty”, selected by Harald Szeemann
and co-produced by Forum Barcelona 2004 as one of the “Forum in the City”
events concerned with the Conditions of Peace. It contains around 150 works
– drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations – from a
period running from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid
in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them,
because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal
society........................277
War
and Peace: Soviet Press
Photography. Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
On The exhibition presents a complete
collection (created in the 70s) of Soviet press photography. Virtually all
pictures are of high aesthetic quality, and most prints are technically
excellent. Moreover, the choice of subjects provokes a strong impression of
the ideology and cultural policy of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev
era. The collection consists of several convoluts that used to be shown in
various combinations at travelling exhibitions in the foyers of so-called
palaces of the press and palaces of culture, as well as in Soviet army clubs
and in institutions of higher education, frequently on the occasion of
political festivities and anniversaries.
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Bit Connection: Webism - Art
connecting the World. Electric Avenue, Vienna, Austria.
From May 27 to June 12, 2004 an
exhibition of international artists takes place on the prestigious Electric
Avenue of Vienna Museumsquartier (MQ). The exhibition, 32 Bit Connection: Webism
- Art connecting the World, features works by eight artists from around the
world that met over the Web. Webism is the new ism of the new Millenium and
is derived from the Internet. It has become a steadily growing global
cultural movement with artists working in all types of
media................................................................................................................................................278
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