A big black curtain blocked the view of the store's entrance except Starbucks's trademarked green siren logo.
ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain.
Probably as much as a few plastic bottles, and less than heating the water in which to not-very-effectively wash a big floppy curtain that tends to crumple and "protect" itself from soapy water much as it has protected your floor.
"On the big curtain paint the troublemaking/ Dove of peace of my brother Picasso... " In 1950, the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht decorated his theatre in East Berlin with Picasso's anti-war bird, the symbol of the international Peace Movement.
"Three Sisters" takes much from the music of Boulez, Lachenmann, Nono and Stockhausen, but there is a much older operatic tradition in the long legato lines of the singing parts and the use of ensembles, which occasionally resemble the big curtain numbers of Verdi.
The pop star's big curtain-raiser, arriving a few years after her return-to-spotlight album "Britney Jean," was, of course, a spectacle.
A simple but gorgeous stage set flanked the performers with big curtains of circular pendants that formed an illuminated screen.
Skipping down glamour's yellow brick road are straw editors and tin men, believing what they believe, while lurking behind the big curtains of Paris and Seventh Avenue, surrounded by vigilant monkey publicists, are gods waiting to be condemned as mere mortals.
From her earliest successes – winning her first Tony nomination in 1956 for William Inge's play Bus Stop – until the late 1980s, she would down a big drink before curtain, another in the interval and a third before delivering the climactic song (the so-called "11 o'clock number") in a musical.
