Blurring the line between sculpture and jewelry, the necklace transforms a public monument into an easily reproducible commodity," TPG mused, before turning their attention to Jay Z's "Picasso Baby performance, another inspiration for their work.
Indeed, Leoncavallo later claimed that his libretto, which tells of a jealous actor who kills his wife and her lover mid-performance, took inspiration from an old murder trial in the Calabrian town of Cosenza, where the composer's father once presided as a judge.
Their performances take inspiration from a wide range of theatrical traditions, including vaudeville, Detroit's Jit subculture, slapstick, and Sichuan opera.
"It's a performance and an inspiration," she explained of her particular form of theater.
Almost every Houston rapper owes something — musical inspiration, performance opportunities, moral support — to Bun B, the hip-hop community's thirty-two-year-old elder.
But I've long wanted to do an empirical study of the merits of performances in relation to direction, because I think that, in an overwhelming preponderance of movies, there's a close correlation between the quality of an actor's performance and the inspiration of the director.
As for United, this was a performance lacking in inspiration, purpose and threat and once again underlined the urgency for transfer business to be done in the closing hours of the transfer window.
For her Oscar-worthy performance, Rebecca Hall said inspiration came from her understanding of Christine Chubbuck as a woman who, fighting mental issues and job stress, was struggling to live.
And through the whole performance there ran the inspiration of Bobby Charlton.
But whatever the inspiration, in performance the piece works as a single arc of desperate birdsong in conflict with man-made machines.
