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Demetria Daniels

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Run as fast as you can to the New York Botanical Garden to see CHIHULY, a visionarty glass maker and artist who has filled the garden with masterpieces. His works are fantasy sculptures, adapted from natural and organic forms and echoing the fantastic flowers and fauna at the garden. At some point it is hard to tell which is which. For instance, the "Blue Herons", look like blue flamingos from a distance, sitting in the lily pond pool, surrounded by "Wala Walas"-glass onions that float on the pond. The "Palm Dome Tower" , a tower, 30 feet high, is made up of hundreds of thin, curlicued glass jutting out, almost "alive" from its central core and armature, afloat on the pond. CHIHULY has created a new art/plant in a new "garden of Eden" --as though we arrived on another planet and are witnesses to an "alien" species He has taken the traditional formula of sand, soda, lime, and ash, stemming from EGyptian glass, and has created an explosion of shape and color,yellow,blue and some with slivery and gold and copper refractions.

CHIHULY combines the "high" art of Venetian glass with influences of Tiffany,
Picasso and Andy Warhol. He is international and creates beauty throughout the entire world, a true visionary who exemplifies a respect and partnership of glass and nature, intertwined with whimsical, joyful, and surreal immagination.
Bring your children, and your whole family. It is the best art show in New York.
posted by Demetria at 10:21 AM

 
The Brooklyn Film Festival had a great one week of film showings. One of my favorites, and winner of the feature film category was "The OH In Ohio", director Billy Kent from Brooklyn - Producer Amy Salko Robertson, with a fabulous cameo guest appearance from LIZA MINNELLI. It is a comedy - so run and see it.

Another favorite of mine was "FACTORUM"", based on the life of Charles Bukowski.

Festival Director, MARCO URSINO, presented an award of excellence to DOUGLAS STEINER, of the Brooklyn Steiner Studios, where so many future movies will be made.
posted by Demetria at 11:57 AM

 
Le Cirque


posted by Heather Floyd, Floyd Innovations LLC at 3:53 PM

 
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting held a Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, which gave a cubistic view of the great man. "Let it Be Art", a one-act play written by and staring Ronald Rand started the festival giving a wonderful portrayal of the writer/director, looking at him from all sides.
Poetry, plays, concerts, singing and a symposium bled into a 4-day festival. At the Symposium, EDWARD ALBEE, the famed playwright, received the Harold Clurman Lifetime Achievement Award. And the "spirit" award went to Steven Scheuer.

Sitting on the panel, ROY SCHEIDER said that Clurman was a "zen master" and had a "kabalistic" approach; JOHN GUARE said "he was one of us" - he encouraged playwrights to write plays for his theater.

MAYOR BLOOMBERG wrote "the Stella Adler Studio is perhaps most widely recognized for its alumni which includes legends such as MARLON BRANDO, ROBERT DENIRO,and Elaine Stritch. The school's mission statement is "to create an enviroment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community".

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW LE CIRQUE - BILLY JOEL, WOODY ALLEN, and JOAN RIVERS as well as TONY BENNET all came by to say good luck to Sirio Maccioni,on his third location. At least 1,000 people were there. We all drank champagne and ate hors d'oeuvres together. It was a great party, a very happy one.
I had a long chat with Mrs. Maccioni who told me her favorite dish was the pasta primavera. I can't wait to try it - the restaurant is open for business on E 58 St.
posted by Demetria at 11:45 AM