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Asher Edelman
Asher Barry Edelman (born November 26, 1939) is an American financier. Biography Edelman was the son of New York real estate investor, Richard M. Edelman. He graduated from Bard College and in 1961, he went to work for Halle and Stieglitz where he focused on option arbitrage and became the youngest (24 years old) New York Stock Exchange approved office manager. He founded Mack, Bushnell & Edelman in 1969, and served as CEO. Edelman's Wall Street businesses included investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding – The Art of War" at Columbia Business School, using as his textbook Sun Tzu's ''The Art of War''. The character of Gordon Gekko in ''Wall Street'' was based in part on Edelman. In 1988, he moved to Switzerland and founded a contemporary art museum in Pully, near Lausanne. The FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain launched the first European retrospective exhibitions of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erling Mandelmann
Erling Mandelmann (18 November 1935 – 14 January 2018) was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance Photojournalism, photojournalist in the mid-1960s. Biography Mandelmann worked for 40 years as a freelance photojournalist and portrait photographer for a number of Swiss and European publications, as well as for various international organizations such as the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and Amnesty International. He took more than 500 portraits of people, including the 14th Dalai Lama, Noël Coward, Gertrude Fehr, Nina Hagen, Johnny Hallyday, and Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein. His photo-archives have been deposited at the Historical Museum of Lausanne. Mandelmann died on 14 January 2018 at the age of 82. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Halley
Peter Halley (born 1953) is an American artist and a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. Known for his Day-Glo geometric paintings, Halley is also a writer, the former publisher of ''index Magazine'', and a teacher; he served as director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011. Halley lives and works in New York City. Introduction Halley came to prominence as an artist in the mid-1980s, as part of the generation of Neo-Conceptualist artists that first exhibited in New York's East Village, including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Sarah Charlesworth, Annette Lemieux, Steven Parrino, Philip Taaffe, Phillip Taaffe, and Gretchen Bender. Halley's paintings explore both the physical and psychological structures of social space; he connects the hermetic language of geometric abstraction—as practiced by artists such as Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly—to the actualities of urban space and the digi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotham Chamber Opera
Gotham Chamber Opera was a professional opera company located in New York City. The company was founded in 2000 under the name of the Henry Street Chamber Opera by Artistic Director Neal Goren and specialized in producing rarely performed chamber operas from the Baroque era to the present. In 2003, it changed its name to the Gotham Chamber Opera (GCO) after incorporating as an independent 501(c)(3) organization. Its Executive Director was Edward Barnes, who took over from David Bennett. It closed in 2015. History Henry Street Chamber Opera The company first presented the American premiere of Mozart's '' Il sogno di Scipione'' (1771), staged by Christopher Alden in 2001 at the Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center, a 350-seat theater on the New Yorks's Lower East Side. Soon after, the company produced a double bill of Henry Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas'' (1689) and Darius Milhaud's ' (1924). Two more American premieres followed in November 2002 with Czech composer Bohuslav Martin� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix De Lausanne
The Prix de Lausanne () is an international dance competition held annually in Lausanne, Switzerland. The competition is for young dancers seeking to pursue a professional career in classical ballet, and many former prize winners of the competition are now leading stars with major ballet companies around the world. The competition is managed by a non-profit foundation organised by the ''Fondation en faveur de l'Art chorégraphique'' and is maintained by various sponsors, patrons and donors. History Prix de Lausanne was founded in 1973 by the Swiss industrialist Philippe Braunschweig and his wife Elvire. Philippe, although not a dancer, became interested in dance as a young man. His Russian dancer wife developed his interest further. The Braunschweigs created the competition after noticing the lack of financial support to young dance students, particularly those from small regional schools, wishing to attend professional level programs. He started by approaching Rosella Hightowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karole Armitage
Karole Armitage (born March 3, 1954) is an American dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City. She is artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance, a contemporary dance company that performs several times annually in New York City as well as touring internationally. She was dubbed the “punk ballerina” in the 1980s. She earned a Tony nomination for her choreography of the Broadway musical ''Hair''. Early life and early career Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Armitage grew up dividing her time in two places: Gothic, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas. Gothic was the site of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory where her father, a biologist, did research. Armitage began studying ballet in Lawrence, Kansas at the age of four with former New York City Ballet dancer Tomi Wortham, followed by classes in Crested Butte, Colorado with Shirley Strabhaur. She then continued her studies with Ballet West in Aspen and Salt Lake City, at the School of American Ballet, the Harkne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
Founded in 1958, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is the largest modern dance company in the United States.Dance Data Project (October 2024) 2024 Largest Contemporary and Modern Companies Report Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ranks #1 in “Largest 50” U.S. Contemporary and Modern Companies (by expenditure). p. 6. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Alvin Ailey (1931–1989), a noted choreographer and dancer. The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, which includes AAADT and Ailey II, the Ailey School, Ailey Extension, AileyCamp, and other operations, is housed in the 87,000 square-foot Joan Weill Center for Dance, one of the largest buildings dedicated exclusively to dance in the United States. AAADT is recognized as a vital American cultural ambassador,"Text - H.Res.1088 - 110th Congress (2007-2008): Recognizing and commending the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for 50 years of service as a vital American c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year. The company was scheduled to have a 5-week spring season at the MET preceded by a 2-week season at the Koch Theater beginning in 2020. ABT is the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress. History In 1939 Pleasant and Chase committed to the creation of "a large scale company with an eclectic repertory". The pair and a small group from Mordkin Ballet formed Ballet Theatre. Their new company's first performance was on 11 January 1940. Chase began developing the company's repertoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Academy Of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 1859, presented its first show in 1861, and began operations in its present location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 1908. The Academy is incorporated as a New York State not-for-profit corporation. It has 501(c)(3) status. Gina Duncan has served as president since April 2022. David Binder became artistic director in 2019. History Original facility On October 21, 1858, a meeting was held at the Polytechnic Institute to measure support for establishing ''"a hall adapted to Musical, Literary, Scientific and other occasional purposes, of sufficient size to meet the requirements of our large population and worth in style and appearance of our city."'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durst Organization
The Durst Organization is one of the oldest family-run commercial and residential real estate companies in New York City. Established in 1915, the company is owned and operated by the third generation of the Durst family. Durst is the owner, manager, and builder of 13 million square feet of premier Manhattan office towers. The Durst residential portfolio has 3,400 units across 3 million square feet. Durst is recognized as a world leader in the development of high-performance and environmentally advanced buildings where people live, work, and thrive. It is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY). ''Forbes'' magazine estimates the Durst family fortune at $8.1 billion. Early history In 1902, Jewish immigrant Joseph Durst arrived in the United States from Gorlice, Galicia, Poland with three dollars to his name. He found work as a tailor in New York City, and in 1912, he became a full partner in a dress manufacturer, Durst & Rubin. Using the profits from his busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, '' Bloomberg Businessweek'', '' Bloomberg Markets'', Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms. Since 2015, John Micklethwait has been editor-in-chief. History Bloomberg News was founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990 to deliver financial news reporting to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers. The agency was established in 1990 with a team of six people. Winkler was first editor-in-chief. In 2010, Bloomberg News included more than 2,300 editors and reporters in 72 countries and 146 news bureaus worldwide. Beginnings (1990–1995) Bloomberg Business News was created to expand the services offered through the terminals. According to Matthew Winkler, then a writer for ''The Wall Street Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Winter (artist)
Christopher Winter (born 31 May 1968) is an English contemporary artist. In addition to painting and drawing, both abstract and figurative, Winter also makes video and sculpture. His work interprets contemporary reality and reactions to modern life. Life and education Winter was born in Kent, England. He studied at Hastings College of Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany with Fritz Schwegler. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the London art collective, BANK. From October 1993 to June 1994, Winter was artist-in-residence for the city of Mannheim, Germany. In 2010, the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, featured a solo exhibition of his work titled "Wild Life”. The museum invited artists to exhibit who had received the award from the city of Mannheim under the slogan "Welcome Back", acknowledging their artistic work and its progress since the scholarship. In 2015, Kerber Verlag published a large monograph of Winter's work to mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy McClure
Cathy McClure is an American visual artist born in 1965, known for her kinetic sculptures and zoetropic installations. Her works often feature re-engineered mechanical toys, video, sound, strobes, and other lighting effects. McClure's art has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and public spaces around the world. Early life, education, influences, and artistic practice McClure was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She returned to Texas after high school, settling first in Dallas. She attended Texas Tech University where she studied painting, sculpture and metal design. She was particularly inspired by her jewelry design and metalsmithing professor Robly Glover, and her glassblowing professor Bill Bagley. While attending Texas Tech, she co-founded Spiral Glass. She received her BFA in 1995. Following her undergraduate studies, she relocated to Seattle to attend the University of Washington where she received an MFA in 1997. She has acknowledged influentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
