Joshua Frankel Explained

Joshua Frankel (born 1980) is an American contemporary artist and director who makes work in many different media, including animation, film, opera, drawing, printmaking and public art.

Music is often central to Frankel's work. His animation has been presented synchronized to live musical performances by chamber ensembles and full orchestra by institutions including the Library of Congress,[1] the Brooklyn Academy of Music,[2] [3] the San Diego Symphony,[4] and The River to River Festival, where his animation took over 50 video advertising screens in New York City's Fulton Center transit hub at rush hour.[5] [6] Ann Midgette of the Washington Post called his film Plan Of The City “one of the best matches of visuals to music I’ve seen.”

Joshua Frankel's animated collages use modern techniques to represent history, not depicting precisely what happened during specific events but evoking how they felt.[7] New York City, architecture and urban planning are recurring themes in Frankel's work. His use of collage also connects his work to the visual language of architectural proposals.

Frankel was also one of the “Superforecasters” described in the 2015 book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner about the Good Judgment Project, a research project that studied how accurately civilians can forecast future news events.[8] [9]

Early life

Frankel grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.[10] He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School[11] and Williams College.[12]

Selected works

A Marvelous Order (2022)

A Marvelous Order is an opera about the battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs[13] over the fate of New York City, conceived by Frankel, composer Judd Greenstein and poet Tracy K. Smith.[14] [15] The opera is framed, implicitly, as a love triangle in which Moses and Jacobs vie for the affections of New York City.[16] In addition to being through-composed musically, A Marvelous Order has animation that runs throughout, created by Frankel.[17] [18] Work-in-progress productions were presented at '62 Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College[19] and the River to River Festival. The completed opera had its world premiere on October 20, 2022 at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, in the culmination of a multi-year partnership including three creative development residencies.[20] [21]

Emergent System (2020)

Emergent System is an animated film by Frankel synchronized to music by composer Missy Mazzoli and featuring choreography by Faye Driscoll, commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State University.[22] [23] The film premiered at Peak Performances in 2020 with music performed live on six grand pianos by Grand Band, a piano sextet. In conjunction with the performances, an exhibition of Frankel's drawings was presented in collaboration with the George Segal Gallery.[24] [25]

Mannahatta (2013)

Mannahatta is an animated film by Frankel, synchronized to music by composer Judd Greenstein and the poem by Walt Whitman of the same name. It premiered at the BAM NextWave Festival in 2013 with music performed by the NOVUS orchestra, Trinity Wall Street Choir and soloist DM Stith.[26] [27]

Plan Of The City (2011)

Plan Of The City is a film by Frankel that combines animation with live action footage[28] synchronized to music by composer Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble, a contemporary chamber ensemble. Greenstein and NOW Ensemble also appear in the film. Plan Of The City has been presented with music performed live by NOW Ensemble by institutions including The Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Academy of Music[29] and the New Museum.[30] The work was awarded the Guldbågen by the Lund Architecture Film Festival.[31] Ann Midgette of the Washington Post called the film “one of the best matches of visuals to music I’ve seen,” while New Yorker critic Alex Ross called the work "Gorgeous."[32]

Queens Is The Future (2007)

Queens Is The Future is a public mural created by Frankel in collaboration with artist Eve Biddle on a handball court in Jackson Heights, Queens. It originally depicted a subway blasting off into space. In 2015, without consulting the original artists, Sony Pictures altered the mural, inserting Spider-Man into the image, to promote the release of the film The Amazing Spider-Man 2.[33]

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Midgette. Anne. 2011-05-15. Music review: Alt-classical groups Victoire and NOW Ensemble at the Atlas. The Washington Post. 2020-07-22.
  2. Web site: Judd Greenstein on the Space Between Sounds Mixtapes. 2020-07-22. WQXR. 20 November 2013 . en.
  3. Web site: Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive: Production: 21c Liederabend, op. 3 [2013f.00026]]. 2020-07-22. levyarchive.bam.org.
  4. Web site: 2015-11-03. Program Notes: Chamber Music Series: An Evening with Art of Elan. 2020-07-22. San Diego Symphony.
  5. News: Barone. Joshua. 2017-04-12. An Opera About Robert Moses Is Among the River to River Festival Highlights. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-07-22. 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: Zax. Tayla. 21 June 2017. New Opera Tells Story Of Robert Moses And Jane Jacobs — In The City Where They Battled. 2020-07-22. The Forward. en-US.
  7. Web site: Times Square Arts: May's Midnight Moment Animates The Battle for the Streets of New York City. 2020-07-28. arts.timessquarenyc.org.
  8. News: Zweig. Jason. 2015-09-26. The Trick to Making Better Forecasts. en-US. Wall Street Journal. 2020-07-22. 0099-9660.
  9. News: Jiménez. Fanny. 2016-07-31. Sie haben den Durchblick. DIE WELT. 2020-07-28.
  10. Web site: Pomorski. Chris. 2015-05-29. Power Couple: The Feud Between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses Becomes Operatic. 2020-07-22. Observer. en-US.
  11. Book: Tetlock. Philip E.. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. Gardner. Dan. Broadway Books. 2016. 978-0804136716. New York.
  12. Web site: Summer 2016. A Marvelous Order. 2020-07-22. Williams Magazine. en-US.
  13. Wiedeman. Reeves. 15 February 2016. Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, In Song. 2020-07-22. The New Yorker. en-us.
  14. Web site: Murray. Larry. 2016-01-21. Upcoming theatre and dance events at Williams College '62 Center. 2020-07-22. Berkshire on Stage. en.
  15. Web site: 2016-03-12. Judd Greenstein and Joshua Frankel: A Marvelous Order. 2020-07-22. Destination Williamstown. en-US.
  16. Web site: Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs: An Operatic Myth On the Media. 2020-07-28. WNYC Studios. en.
  17. Web site: McArdle. Molly. 2016-05-25. A Marvelous Order: A Gentrification Opera for Our Times. 2020-07-22. Brooklyn Magazine. en-US.
  18. Web site: 2019-04-10. Pitch Project: A Marvelous Order. 2020-07-22. www.ispa.org.
  19. Web site: Lange. Alexandra. 2016-05-04. Imagining Jane Jacobs. 2020-07-22. Curbed. en.
  20. News: Waleson . Heidi . 'A Marvelous Order' Review: Battling the Power Broker . 2022-10-31 . Wall Street Journal . 27 October 2022 . en-US.
  21. Web site: Weiner . Natalie . A 'Marvelous' Endeavor . 2022-10-31 . PennStater Magazine . en.
  22. Web site: Lustig. Jay. 2020-02-24. No other instruments needed as six-piano Grand Band creates a big sound of its own. 2020-07-22. NJArts.net. en-US.
  23. Web site: 2019-07-07. A Look At Peak Performances 2019-20 Season. 2020-07-22. NewJerseyStage.com. en.
  24. Web site: The Grand Band - Peak Performances. 2020-07-22. Issuu. 7 February 2020 . en.
  25. Web site: Grand Band - Feb 14th & 15th - Peak Performances. 2020-07-22. Arts & Cultural Programming. en-US.
  26. Web site: 2014-04-07. Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses by Joshua Frankel. 2020-07-22. cityvision. en.
  27. Folsom. Ed. 2016. Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2016. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 34. 88–100. 10.13008/0737-0679.2226 . University of Iowa. free.
  28. Web site: 2012-09-16. Critics Picks: 'Tiny Kushner,' 'Stranger's Child,' 'Plan of the City'. 2020-07-22. The Seattle Times. en-US.
  29. Web site: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Friday. 2020-07-22. Feast of Music.
  30. Web site: Plan of the City. 2020-07-22. www.newmuseum.org. en.
  31. Web site: ArchFilmLund Prize 2012. 2020-07-22. www.archfilmlund.se.
  32. Web site: Ross. Alex. 2004-04-30. The Rest is Noise. 2020-07-28. The Rest Is Noise.
  33. McGrath. Ben. Writing on the Wall. 2020-07-22. The New Yorker. 9 February 2015 . en-us.
  34. Web site: 2019-01-01. National Endowment for the Arts: Winter Grant Announcement for FY2020.
  35. Web site: Blahut. Chelsea. 2016-05-12. Graham Foundation Announces Its 2016 Grants to Individuals. 2020-07-22. www.architectmagazine.com.
  36. Web site: Hanna. Beth. 2013-10-11. Sundance Institute Selects Six Creative Teams and Projects for New Frontier Story Lab. 2020-07-22. IndieWire. en.
  37. Web site: Past Grantees: Film, Video & New Media (2005): Joshua Frankel. 2020-07-22. The Jerome Foundation. en.
  38. Web site: NYSCA: New York State Council on the Arts FY11 Grantees. 2020-07-22. www.nysca.org.

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