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Minute. Come. Back. With an opera like her man. I love rehearsing almost more than anything because the feeling of everywhere her soul is different from every other woman out there yes. My father. Jasper is often discussed as being the father of papa all are the objects that he produced gave a new set of images to pop artists like Andy Warhol and in every generation the comes to that. Well it's a different bucket of substance out of it and that's still happening now. The rise of Chinatown is an exhibition that will transform Chinatown into a public exhibition space played by 10 different contemporary artists that will display their words in different shops.

City Arts is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis Coleman Bellew Esther T-Birds Charitable Trust and Sylvia and Ralph Avalon funding is also provided by the Michael and Helen Shaefer Foundation in New York City Department of Cultural Affairs through the cultural challenge program and the members of 13. If you take it like this then you will use.

You're so sweet you're going to need another moment with an opera like her man who I love with her singing almost more than anything because what is so fascinating is that at every phase and with every opera the character the atmosphere the quality of the feeling of everyone her soul is different from every other. Every time you put your hands on that piece again after leaving it awhile it just explodes in your face again what a what a phenomenal work of genius it is. Obviously James divine has conducted karma but he's never conducted Carmen with this cast. Classy Domingo one of the most famous tenors in the world. And then you have one Chris Meyer who is now doing a role that is is. Right up her alley but she's very much a dramatic singer. So you have a possibility and then you wrap it all up in Franco Zeffirelli. I have a way to express my vitality. You know you're one society for

expressing myself without but I'll praise a history of that flows at the end of the day it's it carries you. And it never betrays. Oh yeah. I have all of that. Up there. Working together on the somebody who guides are the people with imagination and talents. You know that to achieve together is something that. Has to be as good as we can. When you have a team like Jimmy Levein in the musical insight and thankless a few daily understates you are in good hands and I have done Carmen before both with Jimmy and told her with Franco in different locations she is the first time we do it together. Of course I have my own ideas

about the conduct of which there are very. Very much freaks in me but I'm always looking for new new things to do and I hope in this proceeding of the rehearsals I can find every moment more and more different things to do because after one hundred and seventy five times I never like to get to stare at the stereotype and it's a matter of fact even in a production you know Joe graphically they can tell you you have to go from here to there. But even in one performance to the next one you can make some to eat. The essence of an opera is what is happening between people on stage. And what is that much of a show.

You know. In the beginning of a rehearsal period I really want to know precisely what should be done and how is the interaction between the persons on stage and then when I know that then things can happen. My biggest interest in a role is what character drives through that story. I think the most important for her is freedom. From my idea she is a big ego East's. I'm mostly amazed is she talks all the time about love but she does know what love is.

She loves herself. She loves freedom and she's not interested in anybody else. The. The fact that those human beings dad produces sound which is not normal. Has been not to officially created completely by years and years of labor based on a gift that God has given such and such a person. But there's behind that voice such as we need to do especially something and to achieve some results that could lead to the soul open up and fly somewhere fry hire some fly lower but this is what I think everybody feeds when did it even those who don't know much about the defeatists somethings Saudis happen the the the. It is a tremendously influential writer significantly important

artist. John's painting is gorgeous Arjun. It was one of those authors that the paper. Had a duty for even this they don't know much about. John's timeline and he heralded the change in the generations away from the generation who had fought in the war into the generation that greeted the new consumer culture in America and the world with great enthusiasm and joy. Jasper's often discussed as being the father of papa the father of minimalism and father of conceptual art and that's certainly true that the objects that he produced in the late 50s the flag's targets the numbers not only gave a new set of images to pop artists like Andy Warhol they catalyzed a whole field of 900 60s art and in every generation that comes to that well it's a different bucket of substance out of

it and that's still happening now. He was my hero my God when I came to New York I. Had seen his work a couple of years before when I was an art student and central. Let's go and let me away. This is how I want to make my pleadings and see I guess I was about 18 or 19 years old. I came across a very small black and white reproduction of a painting by Jasper Johns in titled target with four faces. That was so puzzling and so perplexing at the same time it was and it was so beautifully painted that painting was the atomic bomb in my education. And it just blew apart everything that I was taught about art which at the time was a form of abstract expressionism where you face the canvas and attacked it with paints. Hardest learned a lot from Johns Johnson necessarily learn anything from pop

artists. John's was already doing these objects before long before pop. Called something like a common object. Art was considered I guess at one time. But not a real statement by an artist. And yet this man did it in such a beautiful way. His paint brushes his beer cans chairs were all part of Johnson's life. And he wants them to be ordinary. How different they are from Warhol soup cans. There's something about pop art that had to do with objects that were advertised are for sale Johns's objects are possessed and own. Imagine a young man of twenty eight with the success that he had with the initial kiss deli show target appears on the cover of art news the Museum of Modern Art buys three paintings. What's his reaction.

He immediately starts painting in a completely different way. You know looking at this painting and realizing that John's had done this in 1059 is really amazing. When I first saw it physically it transported me out of the mind of a kind of abstract expressionism paintings took the next step by having an idea and making it physical. Whatever style the subject demands that's the style of painting has never been afraid to follow. And fragments what was funny to me. That's a mix up between both. And that when you put all the pieces there you have someone with their slippers on. In the large untitled painting of one thousand seventy two you see John's at a turning point in his

career. The middle section involves this flagstone pattern that he'd see her along the right hand portion are the most employers body parts. The really almost gruesome because the cut into weird hands and mounted on boards and battens and then on the left a cross hatch pattern that John says he plans to own a car passing on the Long Island Expressway and Johnson said that he consciously turned against the emotionalism of the body parts and went into a crosshatch abstractions. But he proved over 10 years is that that cross pattern could be a vehicle for paintings of lyricism of tangled expressionism dark moods of light moods a lot of different meanings. If you think about it the crosshatch is a kind of camouflage. As a way of hiding something and since he was such an enormous success successful artist in the sixties and he may just have wanted to hide. For 10 years he painted nothing but crosshatch abstractions and suddenly in

1982 he completely peer away in the other direction began painting with a whole raft of new motifs. What he does is get you into a place where you realize oh he's in the bathroom. It's so completely thought out. Like how one faucet is turned and one isn't. So he's sitting in the tub or you are looking out at this flat painting and all these weird shapes melting in front of your eyes. It's amazing the complexity that he makes simple. It's also a very sad image. It's utterly despairing and absolutely hopeless. And yet in the sensuality and the physicality there is something like life. The surprise of the moment show just how beautiful the surfaces are. And how impossible they are to capture and photography. And so you have to see the real thing before you really can say whether you like Johns or not.

The treasures of the San Diego are the remains of a a Spanish galleon that sank in the early sixteen hundred off the. Coast of the

Philippines. The. War. And the excitement of a sunken treasure. The idea of bringing something up from the ocean and having it so walk is or is something that everybody can relate to. Women were really a big part of the war effort. What were they doing there working defense contracts for her got her name because she did just that she was the brother on the line. This exhibit also shows what was happening in Queens during World War Two. I think they were going to take five seconds I mean some are just not right to take five seconds to set up a little so you know what he will do out of place we're going to do it right. Anyway when he said I was a dog and I did try that I called real casual I got out of the trailer and it was like I got your name right.

If you tell the story. Any way you know you may be snobbish sometimes I don't mean it. When he says this. I'm going to tell the story. Winning's has this really good. Stuff. And I'm not on my no you just. Have to decide I'm going to get my son to go to meeting I don't want to but it is a great place. For us. I didn't write this. Why do you think I hate you.

There you. Have it. I have. No clue. We are the only professionally staffed institution in the nation dedicated to the history of Chinese people in the Americas. Is an exhibition dead will transform Chinatown into a public exhibition space by 10 different contemporary art will display their works in different shops.

The museum has been reaching out to people both within the neighborhood a small school. From the outside. This exhibition is the first time that the work is actually outside in the community. This piece is Kong he's listed all the names of artists and other friends who have joined him for his Tuesday lunch. It's a sort of performance piece in which the artists would like to share information knowledge that he has about the local restaurants. I strongly believe that you find good food with good prices. I can print better. So. He said they call food called. Starving Artist restaurant guy. So I can remember. What I had. With. Lunch. And then they got canned. And also information to my friends or his friends they can paint better. I'm on the street in Chinatown. So we tried total street the prices are really middle of the country by here because.

There's a small arcade they have a great car. If you're like a single pole ice and then realize that guard is available here at the museum. This piece by John Cussler It's called the sound of one hand clapping and the title is based on a certain Buddhist paradigm that the sound of one hand clapping actually has no sound. And the music box mechanism is unable to play it turns around but the keys aren't there so there is no sound. And that year is a standard acupuncture year that we purchased in the neighborhood. John purchases these little objects from Chinatown and he combines them in unique ways to create new meanings for everyday objects that are encountered in the continent. I used to always come down here and find my stuff for my work I was thinking of a restaurant in first just because so many so many people have said that my work is influenced by Chinese restaurants but I like the idea that it's only three. Atlanta has created a performance piece called Make my head go with me. I'm a

conceptual artist and I work mainly with food is a very specific it's made out of. This. And it's one of the most popular dishes of Burma. It's her way of having viewers become more familiar with not only the food of Burma and the culture of Burma but some of the family traditions when you eat a dish. History is passed within families really intimate history and eating is my conduit to memory. A map of the exhibition is available here with you from the Chinese Americas. You can pick one up see the gallery exhibition and then go around to see the works that are made specifically for the neighborhood locations. My mother made me take lessons from I was 12 and I was delighted

because I love the piano. I started it with a rock I loved the rock. But then during World War Two I learned some boogie woogie and started playing popular music. My husband certainly didn't like it. I wish you'd stop playing that goddamn Bob. Friendly. Friendly.

Generous. Nobody sneered. Next time on City Arts the barber has developed over the years his with her knowledge and respect for traditional dress making techniques how to put together a garment that business really really well. In the spirit of above and I would try to bring. To the Performing Arts the same type of aesthetic as is being brought to contemporary art of today I think it's going to be a very exciting program in terms of people car land when they have a car lending for fresh tracks. People are fighting to get a chance just to audition. Moments where. It doesn't make sense to.

Have. A low heat. Treat from the look of a. Thing. More than five guys really should have. To feel like it that you know that's also the. Words. Yeah. You know when you've been told your book might. Be not what you know what was going on with other people. Yeah that was what they did really you know you know. Yeah. Well. You know. For more information on anything you saw on Tonight Show or to give us comments and suggestions please call it 5 6 0 arts.

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