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Octavio Paz was born into a family of writers on March 31, 1914, in Mexico City. In 1933, he published his first collection of poems, Luna silvestre. Several years later, he founded and edited a literary magazine called Taller. Over his lifetime, he produced more than 20 books and poetry collections and received the Nobel […]
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Margaret McKay Tee was born in 1882 and raised in Pennsylvania until her family moved to Colorado. Following her education at Colorado College, she trained at New York’s Cooper Union and Columbia Teacher’s College, where she met Frank Alvah Parsons. Tee subsequently worked for Parsons as a student instructor when he joined the faculty of […]
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Born in 1912, John Cage was an experimental composer and pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Cage is frequently lauded as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. At the same time he remains a controversial figure for challenging the very idea of what […]
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Harold Clurman (1901-1980) was a respected American theatrical director, actor and drama critic. He attended Columbia University and University of Paris where he received his degree in 1923. In 1924, Clurman made his acting debut as an extra with the Greenwich Village Theatre. Clurman was also a founding member of the Group Theatre, begun in […]
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Frank Alvah Parsons was born April 1, 1866 in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. In 1901, after a period of European travel, Parsons moved to New York City where he pursued a degree in Art Education from Columbia University, graduating in 1905. Parsons began teaching at the New York School of Art (later Parsons The New School for […]
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American Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was best known for her preservation of modern art and her documentation of New York’s ever-changing landscape. After studying at Ohio State University for one year, Abbott moved to New York City in 1918 and began to focus on various forms of art, which included sculpture and drawing. Abbott’s interests […]
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" Late in the year 1898, it became necessary to take mother out of the rigorous Wisconsin winter to Colorado Springs, where I had two married sisters living. "
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" Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio and its tentacles, Rod Steiger, who died on July 9th aged 77, was arguably the most intense. "
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" For this discussion of the Stanislavski System, Stanislavski’s teachings during the later period of his life will be examined first. "
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" Before there was an art of abstract painting, it was already widely believed that the value of a picture was a matter of colors and shapes alone. "