“To date, the displacement of some 400 of the East Building’s 16,200 [2-by-5, 438-pound marble] exterior panels–about 2.5% of the total–has been observed.” But “National Gallery officials decided in 2008 to reinstall all of the panels” on Pei’s 1978 addition.
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Judge: File-Sharing Student Free To Promote Illegal Activity
“US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner granted yesterday a request by [record] companies that she order Joel Tenenbaum to destroy the 30 songs that a federal jury found he downloaded and to not commit further copyright infringement. But she rebuffed their request to bar him from encouraging others to break the law.”
Bankrupt Alitalia To Auction First-Class Cabin Art
“Alitalia collected Italian modern art between the 1950s and the 1960s to generate publicity for home-grown artists such as Lucio Fontana, known for his slashes on the canvas, and the Futurist movement, which began in Italy in the early 20th century.”
Investments Down 17.6%, MoMA Freezes Pay, Cuts Benefits
“MoMA’s cash and investments declined to $610 million from $788 million in the year that ended in June,” but even so, it “has avoided firing staffers to offset budget squeezes.”
Nicholas Martin To Exit As Williamstown A.D.
“Martin, who succeeded Tony winner Roger Rees as Williamstown artistic director in 2008, will continue in his role throughout the upcoming season at the Massachusetts theatre hub,” then step down.
DC Gay Bookstore Lambda Rising Will Set
“Deacon Maccubbin, Lambda Rising’s founder, said that he has accomplished all he had intended when he opened the gay-oriented bookstore in 1974 and that ‘it’s time to move on.'” His goal, he said, had been “to prove that there was a market for bookstores in the country to begin stocking gay and lesbian books.”
Composer’s Place In Film Has Gone From Lofty To Lowly
Half a century ago, film composers had prestige — in the credits and in the creative process. Not anymore. “One major Hollywood filmmaker recently showed up at a composer’s studio to preview the music…, listened for a few seconds and declared, ‘Hate it! What else ya got?'”
High-Priced British Import Does Well For US Booksellers
Independents that “import an eagerly awaited book from Britain several months before its release in the United States and then jack up the price” are finding success. The book, Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” “tied for No. 5 on the best-seller list of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association in the United States in October.”
Sayonara, Strasberg: Method Acting Is Finished
“It was pledged to sincerity and emotional truth, and it turned film-going into a profound psychological ordeal…. It’s hard to exaggerate the impact of the Method. It was full of good work, but it was above all, sincere, American, robust and manly.”
In Christmas Verse, Poet Laureate Is Overtly Political
“Based on the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas, [Carol Ann] Duffy’s 12 stanzas begin with an emotional critique of the war in Afghanistan and close with a passionate plea to the world leaders who congregate in Copenhagen tomorrow to discuss climate change.”