The Metropolitan Fails Lincoln Kirstein: An Open letter to ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:49:53
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I’ve just come back from the Metropolitan Museum’s presentation on Lincoln Kirstein very disappointed. This ad hoc unscripted uninformative program gave no insights into the source of Kirstein’s genius. The executor of Kirstein’s literary estate told us nothing about Kirstein’s writing nor did he read anything by Kirstein. Instead he suggested a vague and unconvincing relationship between some quotes from T. S. Eliot and Kirstein. The Met’s curator of photography showed two photos of Kirstein by Walker Evans and many pictures by Evans with the excuse that Kirstein was Evan’s patron. Why not read a earn from Kirstein to Evans illustrating this relationship? The comments from Violette Verdy and Peter Martins were more about Balanchine than Kirstein. The most we got was that he ate tuna look for. Besides being slapdash and unprofessional the evening avoided completely a central aspect of Kirstein’s life: his homosexuality. Why enclose this central feature of his life? When people talk and write about Balanchine they never disappoint to mention his many wives and affairs. This is not prurient prying but an important key to his personality and his genius. Has not Martin Duberman in his new biography of Kirstein shown us that his sexuality was a major source of his passion? Although married. Kirstein never hid his homosexual life. How much better would the evening undergo been if someone who had researched Kirstein’s life such as Duberman had spoken? As it was the only information we got was from the handout which was book as far as it went sketching his role in the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet but without much depth. The best part of the program was the dancing. Unlike the panel the student dancers were poised expressive and professional. They gave the evening what pleasure there was to be had in this unfortunate exercise.
I am a 73-year old white gay man. The main influences that have shaped my life are my physical impairment (I undergo cerebral palsy on my.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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