Month: December 1999

BROADWAY THEATER REDO

Reconstruction of a crucial portion of Broadway has been rumored for two years. But now it looks like changes are afoot. Current tenants of the Judith Anderson, INTAR, Samuel Beckett, and Harold Clurman Theatres, four pillars of West 42nd Street’s Off-Broadway Theatre Row, are on month-to-month leases. The theaters may be virtually demolished in early 2000 to make room for a modern complex containing six new theatres topped by an apartment tower. Backstage

YOUR AD HERE

“With rare exceptions – prisons, churches, Bilbao – buildings no longer say very much to most people.” But advertising – billboards, signs – advertising grabs the imagination. “One could cast this as a battle for citizens’ hearts and minds, but for a long time now bright lights have been winning all hearts, hands down.”  Architecture Magazine

TROPHY TOWERS

Manhattan’s vintage sky scrapers are changing hands for record prices. Developers who a decade ago dismissed the landmark towers as money-losers, now covet them as status symbols. And, they’re investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade neglected buildings.  Architecture Magazine

NO GOOD/NO BAD

Distinctions between good and bad art have melted away. Arguably there is only interesting art – which grabs our imagination – and uninteresting art – which fails to do so. “The more that art generates thought, the more interesting it becomes. The more it ignites negative feedback and debate, the more notorious and sensational it becomes, the closer it approaches entertainment.” *spark-online