Entertainment

Essential Questions:

• How has architecture facilitated the performing arts?

• How have visual artists contributed to theater?

• Where are arts and crafts used in drama and performance?

• In what areas do the visual and performing arts overlap?

Polykleitos: Theater at Epidauros (Greece, c. 350 BCE)

A Theater in EdoJapan, woodcut, c. 1800

J. L. Charles Garnier: Opera HouseParis, 1861 - 74

Joern Utzon: Opera HouseSydney, Australia, 1959 - 1972

Frank Lloyd Wright: Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNew York, completed in 1959

Frank Gehry: Walt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, 2003

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux: Central ParkNew York, 1857 - 1887

The Hakone Open-Air MuseumJapan, open 1969

Gu Mask, Ivory Coast

Bunraku performance on stage, Japan

Julie Taymor (designer and director): The Lion KingNew York, opened mid-1990s

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avrillithographic poster, Paris, 1899

Summerspace (premier in 1958)music – Morton Feldman

choreography – Merce Cunninghamset and costumes – Robert Rauschenberg

Matthew Barney: Cremaster I: The Goodyear ChorusUSA, 1995

Nick Park: Wallace and Gromitclaymation film still, early 1990s