“On the flight were artists, company leaders, the first woman elected to the city’s school board and other leaders. Among the sights on their packed agenda were the Louvre in Paris, the Coliseum in Rome and London Bridge. Out of the city’s grief grew a sense that something needed to be done to memorialize them, to improve on its tiny art museum in an old house and struggling art school.”
Month: May 2012
Why Is RWA Bristol Claiming A Work Is Newly-Discovered Warhol?
Despite claiming that the work is the “earliest known work by Andy Warhol,” the RWA has so far failed to produce a single Warhol expert who says that the work is authentic.
A Major New Museum For Movies In LA
Renzo Piano and L.A architect Zoltan Pali, the academy announced Wednesday, will team up to turn the 1939 May Co. structure, one of L.A.’s classic Art Deco landmarks, into a museum celebrating the history of the film industry.
What Ails Classical Music
“One step therefore we might take to make classical music less boring again is simply for audiences to quit being so blasted reverential.”
Ai Weiwei Versus The Chinese Government
“When the police interrogate me,” he says, “they say I am a pawn of the West. They say they only buy my work because they want to give me money. And they say I am trying to use politics to promote myself and become more famous. And there is some truth here. But the police forget what the purpose of all this fame and status is. I do not need it personally. They never understand the content of my message.”
Banks Agree To Retire $54 Million Detroit Symphony Real Estate Debt
“The real estate debt contributed to a flood of red ink beginning around 2008, along with the recession, falling donations and ticket sales, and stock market losses.”
Have University Presses Outlived Their Time?
“It is, I admit, hard to imagine major universities without presses. But one has to at least consider: Have those various intellectual communities become too splintered, specialized and small? Have the monographs that university presses produce become so costly that individual scholars can’t purchase them?”
The New Barnes – Tribute To A Past
“The new Barnes cannot revive the old. That ship has sailed. Meanwhile, Philadelphia can take ownership of a major institution with a $14m budget, a budding $50m endowment and a vastly expanded scope of functions, not to mention public access befitting its popularity.”
Last Orange Prize Goes To Madeline Miller’s The Song Of Achilles
The first-time novelist “won the award for [her] gripping and touching love story between exiled princeling Patroclus and Achilles, strong, beautiful and the son of a goddess. Miller becomes the fourth consecutive US novelist to win the prize, now in its 17th and final year of being called the Orange prize, following the mobile services company’s decision to end its sponsorship earlier this month.”
Warring Theatrical Styles: Royal Shakespeare Co.’s Greeks To Battle Wooster Group’s Trojans In Troilus
In the two companies’ co-production of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, six RSC actors are rehearsing the Greek characters and scenes under the direction of Mark Ravenhill, while Liz LeCompte’s high-tech, experimental New York group prepares the Trojan parts.