Performance photographs show the sets being used.
This free exhibition, which runs through Sept. 3, includes costumes, rehearsal and performance photographs, film and television footage and artifacts of a career that spanned a half-century.
This free exhibition includes costumes, rehearsal and performance photographs, film and television footage and artifacts of a career that spanned a half-century.
The former is represented by early performance photographs lent by Carrie Potter Devening of Waco, Tex.; she is the granddaughter of Tom and Margaret Potter, who founded the long-shuttered Upstage Club in Asbury Park.
Here you will find performance photographs of such legends as Diana Adams and Francisco Monción, books and art work by Kirstein, set designs and masks by Noguchi for Balanchine's "Orpheus," Maria Tallchief's gorgeous beaded headdress from "Firebird," and film footage of "Apollo," "Filling Station," and "Afternoon of a Faun," the latter danced by Jacques d'Amboise and Tanaquil Le Clercq in 1955.
"LINCOLN KIRSTEIN: ALCHEMIST" In the Vincent Astor gallery at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, a compact, informative free exhibit illustrates Kirstein's vast achievements and includes performance photographs, film footage, set design and masks by Noguchi for Balanchine's "Orpheus," and Maria Tallchief's gorgeous beaded headdress from "Firebird".
Throughout his life Day faded into oblivion for reasons both aesthetic and personal: many interpreted his ahead-of-his-time performance photographs as perverse.
The archival sections include 200 audio clips dating to 1903, newspaper accounts of performances, photographs and statistics that would warm a baseball fan's heart.
A retrospective of her work, including videos of her many performances, photographs and an installation, also opens at the Lisson Gallery in London this month, and she will deliver a lecture on performance art at Tate Modern.
Since the late 1950's, Ms. Export has been challenging images of the female body in media through her own prodigious output of videos, films, performances, photographs, installations, documentaries and writings.
Lisson Gallery, NW1, Tue to 1 Nov SS In films, video performances, photographs and mixed-media drawings, Qasim Riza Shaheen presents his affecting reflections on love and loss, split between two gallery locations.
