Do “all objects identified as accessioned museum specimens have to be kept in perpetuity, even when they have no discernible meaning? The problem is particularly acute in a university…, where objects are primarily used for teaching and research rather than public display.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Vanessa Redgrave Talks About Revisiting Magical Thinking
Keeping a promise to Unicef, Vanessa Redgrave will give a benefit performance of “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion’s play about the grief of losing her husband and daughter. Redgrave lost her own daughter, Natasha Richardson, last spring, shortly before the performance was originally to have taken place.
Philip Roth On Acting, His New Book And Shopping Online
“I buy from FreshDirect,” Roth says. “I also use Amazon, and I buy a lot of used books from AbeBooks and Alibris. It’s wonderful when you want to find something obscure and there it is for $3.98. It’s the greatest book bazaar that has ever existed.”
El Sistema USA Launches At New England Conservatory
“The plan is for the conservatory to train at least 50 people, starting with the first class of 10, over five years to open music educational centers, or ‘núcleos,’ in parts of the United States where children couldn’t normally afford instruments.”
Tribeca In Qatar: Middle Eastern Film Fest Tests Boundaries
Films in the lineup of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival “may not seem outré to Western filmgoers, but they represent something of a cultural revolution for the region, where government censors citing cultural sensibilities cut sex scenes from the big screen, and multiplexes offer a steady diet of apolitical animated and action flicks.”
Booksellers Ask Justice Dept. To Probe ‘Predatory Pricing’
The American Booksellers Association argues that Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target’s “steep discounting on 10 hardcover titles by authors including John Grisham, Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver ‘is damaging to the book industry and harmful to consumers.'”
Miking Straight Plays: Good, Bad, Or Really Bad?
“Just as Bob Dylan was booed when he ‘went electric’ at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, the theater community is divided over the growing manipulation of sound on stage.”
Boston Book Festival Debuts With Emphasis On Technology
“Our town is the birthplace of the first American library, the first American newspaper, and the electronic ink used in Amazon’s Kindle and other e-readers. Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau were born in Massachusetts; today it’s home to cutting-edge institutions whose revolutionary technologies are reshaping the way those authors’ words will be read by future generations.”
To Escape Corporate Image, Boston Ballet Rebrands
The company’s brand strategist explains: “I think the ballet really needed to put a stake in the ground and say, ‘This is happening here, you need to take note.’ Because no one else would do that for them. One of our big challenges was to shift the perception of what ballet is all about.”
James Levine On His Health, And Juggling Two Huge Jobs
“James Levine knows people are worried about him – and about his job stamina. On the eve of what was supposed to be his return to the concert stage, Levine responded to questions about his health and his ability to serve as both music director of the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, arguably two of the most important jobs in American music.”