Robert Wilson

Huppert in Robert Wilson's video-portrait homage to Edward Steichen's 1928 photograph of Greta Garbo. For Isabelle Huppert, American fame has never been in the cards. At 56, the European superstar is fast approaching 100 career films, and...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Brooklyn, Heiner Muller, Sarah Kane, Dracula, 4.48 Psychosis, Edward Steichen, and I Heart Huckabees

...at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica with excerpts from Philip Glass' groundbreaking opera he conceived with director Robert Wilson in 1976. Glass offers the option of replacing the women's voices at the end with a children's chorus...

In this article: Jacaranda, Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach, Morton Feldman, Sandra Tsing Loh, and Rothko Chapel

...says that "In theatre, no one has dramatized the crisis of language with as much ferocious genius as Robert Wilson" (Holmberg 41). Wilson makes it evident in his work that what's and why's of language are terribly important and cannot be...

In this article: The Civil WarS, The Life and Times, Einstein on the Beach, Heiner Muller, Joseph Stalin, Philip Glass, and Tom Waits

...arrival of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble in Paris in the 50s and Louis Aragon greeted the early work of Robert Wilson as the epitome of the surrealism he'd pioneered. Closer to home is the late, lamented Raymond Williams who moved with ease...

In this article: Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Aesthetics, JavaScript, Berliner Ensemble, and Endgame

Friday, Feb 20, 2009, Page 13 As an artist, Robert Wilson possesses an extraordinary range. He's created some theater shows entirely out of his own head (Deafman Glance), others in collaboration with contemporary composers (Einstein on...

In this article: Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Taiwan, Taipei, Orlando, Einstein on the Beach, and Philip Glass

...inside. ' - Artist Robert Wilson Courtesy of University of Iowa Museum of Art Robert Wilson's still lives in motion (barely) Theater legend Robert Wilson's new exhibit at the University of Iowa aims to pioneer a new breed of plasma...

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Theater Visionary Robert Wilson Never Comes Fully Into Focus In New Documentary "Absolute Wilson" is about as conventional a showbiz biography as could be imagined about the unconventional theater artist Robert Wilson. In her 100-minute...

In this article: Harvey Lichtenstein, Suicide, David Byrne, Autism, The Civil WarS, and Philip Glass

Katharina Otto-Bernstein's first interview with famed theater artist Robert Wilson for her new documentary, "Absolute Wilson," was memorable, to say the least: The filmmaker, then nine months pregnant, ended up having Wilson rush her to the...

In this article: New York, Paris, David Byrne, Berlin International Film Festival, and Philip Glass

"Absolute Wilson" is about as conventional a showbiz biography as could be imagined about the unconventional theater artist Robert Wilson. Documentary filmmaker Katharina Otto-Bernstein traces the life of the 65-year-old Wilson through...

In this article: Suicide, David Byrne, Autism, and Philip Glass

...director Katharina Otto-Bernstein, as well as for the film's general release. But if you, um, absolutely can't wait for the acclaimed Robert Wilson documentary, which promises to offer a rare glimpse into the auteur behind such works as...

In this article: Tom Tykwer, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Civil WarS, Einstein on the Beach, and Austria