“In their announcement of the award, the judges wrote that Mullen’s work is ‘brilliant and enigmatic, familiar and subversive.'” Mullen, a UCLA professor, is “[c]onsidered an innovative, experimental poet.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Ownership Dispute Hobbles Eames Auction
Photos and a photo backdrop have been withdrawn from an auction of items that once belonged to Charles and Ray Eames after Charles Eames’ daughter, Lucia, “filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to remove two of 134 lots … being put up for auction by Marilyn and John Neuhart, who worked with the famous designers and became caretakers of some of their work.”
A Festival Celebrates American Song — Of A Certain Kind
“But just what does the [Washington’s Vocal Arts Society, which organized the festival,] mean by ‘American vocal music’? Duke Ellington’s ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ makes the cut. Patti LuPone, at Strathmore, doesn’t. The classical music world seems unsure exactly what the American tradition is that it wants to preserve.”
Corcoran Gallery Climate Control Malfunction Ends A Show
“Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces From the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales” closed yesterday, more than two weeks early. “According to museum officials, the three galleries housing the half-billion-dollar collection did not open Wednesday after the staff decided that air-handling issues for the space needed to be corrected immediately.”
Terrence McNally Gets Married In D.C.
The playwright wed his civil partner Tuesday “on the banks of the Potomac near the Kennedy Center, which is running a series of McNally’s plays.”
Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize Doubles Payout To $200,000
“The added money means that the respective Canadian and international winners will each receive $75,000, while the two Canadian and three international runners-up will all get cheques for $10,000.”
Boston Public Library May Close 7 Branches, Cut 94 Jobs
Another option is to shutter four branches, while a third “would keep all 27 locations open but dramatically slash hours across the board, leaving 18 branches open two or three days a week.” The library, which is facing a $3.6 million budget shortfall, may cut up to 94 jobs.
Vocal Technique, Reconsidered
“Technique isn’t just something that refines your voice into a polished, finished, pretty product, although too many singers and teachers do approach it as if it were a kind of finishing school: polishing the talent, as if painting roses on the cheeks of a porcelain doll. … Technique is something sturdy. It enables you to dig in and get some use out of your instrument.”
Visual Artists To Challenge Google Books In Court
“On Wednesday, the American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google, asserting that the company’s efforts to digitize millions of books from libraries amount to large-scale infringement of their copyrights.”
Stanley Kubrick, Chess Hotshot
“I told him I had a date with a chess hustler in Washington Square Park to play for money. Kubrick wanted the name. ‘Fred Duval’ I said. … ‘Duval is a patzer,’ is what he said. Unless you have been around chess players you cannot imagine what an insult this is.”