Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna in a new Met production, simulcast live in HD
This page is a potpourri of information and writing. The intention is to let you know about events (public appearances) and other News, and share Reviews, Reflections, Essays, and Lectures with you. I also want to link you to special people and sites. Please note the Gertrude Stein blog on the left side Categories.
Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna in a new Met production, simulcast live in HD
Read my report at: http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/dec-2009/1209/renatestendhal1209.html
A rose is a rose by any other name… When I researched Stein photographs and texts for my photobiography I happened upon the man who created this amazing rose tattoo — an homage to Gertrude Stein. He turned out to be not only a tattoo artist but a writer, had worked with Kinsey on his sexual studies, and… been an intimate friend of Gertrude and Alice. Read the rest of this entry »
I am relaunching my photobiography of Gertrude Stein with a blog on She Writes: “Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein”:
http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/why-do-something-if-it-can-be
“Who was Gertrude Stein? The social and artistic dominatrix of the lost generation? The literary founder of modernism? The sensual companion of Alice B. Toklas? A ‘dictator of art’ or an ‘infant prodigy’? Stein, whose freedom with the written word ‘liberated language from the nineteenth century,’ remains a heroine hard to grasp. Now Renate Stendhal’s Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures (Algonquin) takes a good look at the slippery genius. After an astonishing, playful essay, the book opens into a revelatory combination of quotes, clips, and 360 photos of Stein and her wildly brilliant circle. The subtle minimalism of Stein’s cool face, repeating page to page like her own rhythmic sentences, brings a nuanced embodiment to our imcomplete sense of her. From a serious, chin-in-air profile of ‘Gertie’ at age three to a chin-in-hands portrait taken at age seventy-two, the woman is ‘a rose is a rose is a rose.’” ELLE Magazine
Was the great Karita Mattila miscast in the role of Tosca?
Read the review http://www.scene4.com/1109/renatestendhal-r1109.html
My portrait of the provocative artist has appeared in print, in the Arts and Culture section of Four Seasons Magazine, Issue 3, 2009, titled ”Spider Woman”.
http://magazine.fourseasons.com/articles/global/interest/arts_culture/spider_woman/My background article, “Influential 20th-Century Sculptors,” can be read at:
Click on “Read more” to see the whole article on Louise Bourgeois.
Four Seasons Magazine is now presented on YouTube :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5z9sv1KG5k
My memories of the great creator of dance theater in Germany go back to my school days. I saw her still dancing in “The Green Table” by Kurt Joos. My article refers back to the first time Pina and the Wuppertaler Tanztheater appeared in California and created “Nur Du/ Only You”.
link: http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/sep-2009/0909/renatestendhal0909.html
2 photos by Gert Weigelt
Review of the beautiful Anna in Verdi’s “La Traviata” (staged by Marta Domingo) at http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/aug-2009/html/renatestendhal0809.html. Is Anna Netrebko the new ultimate Violetta Verdy?
