Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 Mumford & Sons perform at Forest Hills reopening umford & Sons were in the tennis spirit their set, the foursome played tennis onstage - parking on residential streets. The streets were at the reopening of the Forest Hills using a racket at times, and a guitar and banjo packed Wednesday as thousands headed into MTennis Stadium in Queens. The at others. They also threw balls to fans in the the stadium, with police officers guiding cars Grammy-winning British rockers performed a crowd. Mumford & Sons played the first concert and people on the streets. Mumford & Sons and sold-out concert Wednesday for 16,000 fans at at the 90-year-old stadium, where acts from the crowd were loud, but not unruly during the the stadium’s West Side Tennis Club, which Jimi Hendrix to the Beatles to the Rolling Stones two-hour show. hosted the US Open until 1978. Near the end of performed. It was the first show at the historic The band played their folk-rock tunes with venue in more than 20 years. ease, and at times slowed things down as red Mumford & Sons electrified the crowd - orange lights shined and small light bulb hung even when it rained lightly - playing the well- in the air. They boys were like mad scientists known rock hits “Little Lion Man,” “I Will Wait” during “Dustbowl Dance” - singer Marcus and “The Cave” as well as other songs from their Mumford was now on the drums and he kicked two multiplatinum albums. “Yes, Forest Hills, it out of his way as he headed to the front of the Queens, New York. We just can’t believe you all stage to finish singing the song. Lovett - on the came. This is amazing,” keyboardist Ben Lovett piano - matched his energy, throwing things said. “We were like, ‘Are you sure you can invite around and earning cheers from the crowd. 17,000 people to a tennis court? It hasn’t hap- When singing “Winter Winds,” Mumford even pened in a long time.” forgot some of the words, and shouted an The venue’s prime ended when the Open expletive as the crowd roared and sang it for Mumford & Sons band members, from left, Ben moved 3 miles (5 kilometers) away to Flushing him. “We’re really proud we’re here to revitalize Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Country Winston and Ted Meadows, and its days as a music venue - this venue,” Mumford said before singing the Dwane perform on Wednesday at the West Side where Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Bob closer, “The Cave.” Mumford & Sons’ sopho- Tennis Club in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Mumford & Sons band member Dylan also performed - faded amid complaints more album, “Babel,” won the Grammy Award Queens borough of New York. —AP Marcus Mumford performs. from neighbors about noise, crowds and cars for album of the year this year. —AP rare exhibition of sketches from such a way that both sides can be cial chambers and cannot be shown Leonardo da Vinci’s diaries went seen, which is very rare,” the curator again for at least five years. Aon display in Venice yesterday, of the exhibition, Annalisa Perissa, There are also around a dozen providing a unique insight into the told AFP. The examination of sketches for “The Battle of Anghiari”, a A drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. genius of a Renaissance man who Leonardo’s private diaries feels like an famous fresco that has been lost but is spanned art and science. The exhibi- intimate journey into the creative believed by some art historians to be tion is less about the famous paintings mind of one of history’s most interest- preserved hidden behind a wall in or amazing inventions of the famous ing artists. The architect, botanist, sci- Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The exhibi- old master and more about the inner entist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, tion is divided up into themes, with the workings of his mind and the constant engineer, inventor, musician, poet first section dedicated to botany as a curiosity he showed in the world and urban planner can be seen jump- sort of first taste of the artist’s rich talian director Emma Dante says her debut film “A around him. ing from one idea to the next in multi- imagination. Street in Palermo,” a modern-day Sicilian twist on a Western duel, is a story of gridlock which “shows where “Leonardo da Vinci: The Universal ple sketches and annotations. Another section is devoted to I we are today.” In the film, Dante’s character, a frustrated Man” runs until December 1 in the His tiny drawings, some of them in Leonardo’s musings on the possibility middle-aged lesbian, comes to a stalemate with a stub- canalside Galleria dell’Academia muse- charcoal, others engraved, include dis- of building a tank-centuries before any born grieving widow when the cars they are driving come um and contains works from the torted human faces, different types of such contraption was actually used in grill-to-grill on a narrow backstreet in a poor Palermo gallery’s own archives, as well as collec- flowers and elaborate geometrical war. “Because it only has sketches, you neighborhood. Both women refuse to back up as the dra- tions around the world. The sketches forms. “Twenty-five of the drawings might think this would be a less inter- ma unfolds around them. Dante said the women’s stale- were done between 1478 and 1516 have not been displayed since 1980. esting exhibition,” said Giovanna mate can be likened to Italy, stuck for years in an econom- ic crisis. “It is a particular moment in our history,” Dante and include the iconic “Vitruvian Man”, This is a unique chance to admire Damiani, an official from Venice noted. “A Street in Palermo,” which premiered Thursday, is an anatomical drawing on the propor- them all together,” Perissa said. The Museums. “But in fact it goes much among 20 films competing for the Golden Lion. —AP tions of the human body based on the creative process of the grand master further because it lets us analyse and writings of the ancient Roman architect can also be seen in the preparatory read the creative process of the artist, Vitruvius. sketches for his famous “The Last the extraordinary genius of Leonardo,” “The drawings are displayed in Supper”, which are preserved in spe- she said. —AFP (From left) Italian actor Carmine Maringola, Italian actress Elena Cotta, Italian director Emma Dante and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher pose during the photocall of Via Castellana Bandiera presented in competition at the 70th Venice Film Picture shows a Christ drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in A woman looks at a drawing byLeonardo da Vinci. Festival yesterday at Venice Lido. —AFP Venice. —AFP photos.