“Other dates on the original five-city tour had already fallen through, but [producer Kevin] Von Feldt says he had sold more than $200,000 in tickets in Chicago, the last hold-out. ‘We’re going to come back,’ said Von Feldt, comparing himself to Max Bialystock….”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
To Keep Shelter Open, Vt. Church To Sell Tiffany Window
“The church considered selling its pews; it had an appraiser value its bell. It also has three other stained-glass windows that church records say are Tiffany designs but which are not signed and are difficult to authenticate. The St. John window with its Tiffany Studios insignia was by far the most valuable and seemed the logical choice.”
Waldo Hunt, Who Led Pop-Up-Book Revival, Dies At 88
“‘King of the pop-ups’ became Mr. Hunt’s moniker in professional circles. Mr. Hunt produced dozens of books for Walt Disney; a series based on Babar; and popular titles including ‘Haunted House’ and ‘The Human Body.’ A 1967 pop-up published by Random House, ‘Andy Warhol’s Index,’ came about at the suggestion of the artist. “
Philip Glass On The Intersection Of Music, Science & Math
“The worlds of music and science, as Mr. Glass sees it, are not that far apart. For starters, he is skeptical of science’s claim to objectivity. ‘Mathematicians are subject to the same kinds of enthusiasms as everybody else,’ ” he says.
Kids In Home-Based Day Care Watch Double The TV
“[R]esearchers found that toddlers, ages 1 to 3, in home-based day-care centers watched an average of 1.6 hours of television there each day, including videos and DVDs. Preschool-age children, 3 to 5 years old, watched 2.4 hours a day in home-based centers.” That’s not counting their viewing at home.
LACMA Budget Woes May Mean No $25M Koons Sculpture
“The proposed sculpture would consist of a 70-foot locomotive suspended from a 161-foot-tall crane. Three times a day — at noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. — the train will blow its whistle, puff steam and move its wheels, first accelerating and then slowing down.”
Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s Collaborator & Wife, Dies At 74
“Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation ‘The Gates’ and other large scale ‘wrapping’ projects around the globe with her husband Christo,” has died “at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm.”
Oxford To Get A Storytelling Museum
“The Story Museum has existed online for the past four years, holding events across Oxfordshire and running storytelling pilots in schools, but [a £2.5 million] donation enables it to start constructing a permanent home in Oxford.”
Philip Roth’s The Humbling Shortlisted For Bad-Sex Prize
“Roth can comfort himself with the fact that a roll call of literary fiction’s great and good, from Booker winner John Banville to acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and Whitbread winner Paul Theroux,” are also in competition this year for the Literary Review’s bad sex in fiction award.
In Armenia, Spectacular New Arts Center Uplifts The Nation
“The center, a mad work of architectural megalomania and historical recovery, is one of the strangest but most memorable museum buildings to open in ages. Imagine an Art Deco version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon stretching nearly the height of the Empire State Building, its decorations coded with Armenian symbolism. Did I mention the artificial waterfalls?”