The Whitney Museum teams up with Intel to explore how artists might use computers and the web. Wired
Month: October 1999
UNTOUCHABLE
Coming soon to New York’s 5th Ave – and immune from mayoral sanction – the Museum of Sex. Philadelphia Inquirer
OVER THE TOP
New York’s Radio City Music Hall has always been a fantasy palace. It’ll be even more so after reopening after a seven-month, $70 million restoration. New York Times
PRICELESS OR OVERPRICED
FRESHMAN SURVEY
Rather than putting a century of American art in some sort of revealing context, the Whitney Museum’s enormous project “The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000,” is superficial – nothing less than “the culmination of a century of suspender-snapping cultural nationalism” writes New York Magazine. New York Magazine
MILLENNIAL MAESTROS
Just who are the great conductors today, and how do you get them to come conduct? Even venerable Cleveland finds its podium roster a little bare. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
SIMON RATTLE MAKES HIS DIRECTOR’S DEBUT in Berlin –
with Mahler and broken German. The audience loves it. – The Sunday Times (UK)
AS CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA prepares to stage –
– the premiere of William Bolcom’s opera A View from the Bridge, John von Rhein looks at the economics of mounting a new opera. – Chicago Tribune
MARK MORRIS TOURS BRITAIN
The Sunday Times‘s dance critic takes a mid-career look. – The Sunday Times (UK)
THE FUTURE OF FICTION
A blue-ribbon panel debates the future of writing. – Philadelphia Inquirer