Carmignano, a little village west of Florence near Leonardo’s birth place, is the setting of an exciting video installation by Bill Viola. The church of San Michele in the village is home to Pontormo’s celebrated ‘Visitation’ and Viola uses this image as a starting point for his presentation. ‘The Greeting’ is a series of video images projected onto a screen in a dark room; three women are filmed as they meet and converse in a mirror image of the famous painting.
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Ohm is essentially an upscale space with no real built-in crowd; as such, everything from yuppie parties to underground house nights fill up the week. As of this writing, Thursday’s Soul Circuit event looked to be the best bet, with two of New York’s better deep-house DJs, Joe T. Turri and Rio, spinning the tunes.
Thanks to MTV’s ‘Unplugged,’ a whole new generation has fallen in love with this classic crooner. Sinatra and Martin may be gone, but Tony Bennett is still cooking. In a career that spans seven decades, Bennett’s voice has only become richer. Tonight, he comes to Miami to play his greatest hits, including ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’. Whether you’re old or young, this is a show you don’t want to miss.
The former MTV star you love hate (or maybe not, somebody must go to his movies) brings his own kind of stand-up humor to DC for a three-night stand. There are bits that incorporate characters from his highly forgetttable films like ‘Encino Man’, ‘Bio-Dome’ and ‘Jury Duty’, but at least he doesn’t have that frizzy hairdo any more. But seriously folks, no matter what he looks like, he’s still totally Pauly and he’s grateful that humor is in the eye of the beholder.
A small exhibition of 30 photographs reveals the many moods of Sydney’s largest park. The black and white images were taken by Wendy McDougall and Brendan Read over three years and document the magnetic attraction Centennial Park has for Sydney’s citizens. A rider hits the Horse Track at dawn, Buddhist monks stroll, an old couple rest in the shade of a paperbark tree. Part of the exhibition explores its transformation from a resource-rich swampland that sustained the early inhabitants to the later inappropriate landscaping inspired by British Romanticism.
This exhibition at the National Ethnological Museum portrays the encounter between civilisations that followed the landing of the first Portuguese ship on the coast of what is now Brazil. In practice the show is mainly concerned with displaying artefacts from indigenous Brazilian cultures, rather than fundamentally reviewing the process of colonisation and cultural miscegenation and destruction. However, it does make some attempt to reconstruct the cultural and geographical diversity the region at the time.
