Today, the Magic Gardens serve as Zagar's headquarters: the space hosts folk concerts and events, the artist himself leads workshops, and a steady stream of visitors come to revel in this one-of-a-kind artistic playground.
They still live there and they make a kind of blue-collar artistic statement by doing cheap recordings in a basement.
Today the revitalization continues - albeit with fiscal rather than artistic goals - as a growing number of trendy boutique hotels open their doors.
Currently, he's in the midst of a 3-year appointment as Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he's the Pianist-in-Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Mr. PAGE: I enjoyed feeling like a collaborator--I mean, actually being a collaborator in this situation, where the endeavor was purely artistic--which is largely what Barenaked Ladies' intentions are, but it's so caught up for us in the world of the music business.
The organisation is currently enjoying a period of artistic acclaim, with rave reviews and a sold-out run for the Crucible's production of My Fair Lady starring Dominic West.
Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
Not long ago I spoke to the artistic director of a well-regarded theater company somewhere in America that's feeling the pinch.
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There are signs of that actually happening in the next few months -- not an avalanche of masterworks, not the sudden transformation of an obviously troubled part of the entertainment industry, but the emergence of a number of unusual movies with a better-than-even chance of artistic as well as commercial success.
Enter Marlin Miller, a wood sculptor from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who volunteered to create a few live oak sculptures for free -- in part to leave his artistic mark on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but also as a service to the community.
Bebop House is a hostelcum- hotel that captures the youthful, artistic buzz of Hongik district.
But the most often-noted difference between the NCCO (founded in 1992) and other U.S. chamber orchestras is that it has had, since 2008, a world-famous violinist as its concertmaster and artistic director.
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It's a staggering aesthetic and intellectual cat's-cradle of lines that connect the various actors in this artistic drama across a span that moves from Russia across various European capitals to the U.S., while also describing the intensity of their networks.
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Set to music, this all-encompassing artistic experience is just simply a hedonistic exercise in art, color and space.
It is nonetheless carefully hand-painted and sparked a realization that would satisfy his artistic needs for the rest of his life.
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Almost to a person, the performers who stepped up cited a special love for the city's artistic tradition -- from the Creole brass bands that invented jazz in the city's streets to the colorful Mardi Gras krewes whose elaborate floats and costumes are an emblem of the city's annual pre-Lent bacchanal.
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He said Rowling's rags-to-riches success and the imaginative stories stirred a passion for artistic expression.
Irish Rep's artistic director Charlotte Moore presents a lively, tongue-in-cheek staging, with the cast near-constantly in motion.
She is also one of the few directors period who remains faithful to an artistic vision in a world of brainless, lowest-common denominator entertainment franchises.
And as a jazz bandleader, his quartets and trios translate his post-idiomatic artistic outlook into spiky, supercharged songs.
Hollywood's A-list has little trouble attracting the paparazzi and tabloids, but artistic--or monetary--success doesn't come as easy, or at least as reliably.
Like (and indeed inspired by) nineteenth-century men of letters, Smith is a jack of all artistic trades, and, unusually, a master of most.
And we started waiving back at them, and suddenly, there was that kind of artistic bond that is just - it's a miracle.
The Naughty Dog developers like a good technical and artistic challenge, and creating and rendering realistic-looking sand (in dunes, blowing in the wind, etc.) is no easy feat.
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Twelve years later, when Monson was working in Los Angeles, she was invited to interview for the role of artistic director: "It was a very non-traditional job interview, " she said.
It can be seen as a strange case of life mirroring Dickens's final artistic efforts - the author's last, unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, centred on the suspense of the possibility of a corpse hidden in Rochester Cathedral.
Bellini's profile portrait of Mehmet sniffing a rose is a masterpiece of cross-cultural exchange: Mehmet appears as a civilised ruler rather than a threat, yet in its colour and composition this portrait is unmistakably the handiwork of a Venetian master, testament to the city's artistic pre-eminence.
The plot was a battle of the commercial forces of cinema against those of artistic high-mindedness.
All those artistic and literary greats cavorting in a city that seems purpose-built to inspire how could they not create works we hold up as true art?
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