“Kapoor’s Orbit, a vast, snaking steel structure, will dominate the 2012 Olympic park. It is being hailed as London’s answer to the Eiffel tower and is part of an ambition to make the Olympics site a permanent visitor attraction.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
What It Takes To Forge A Dance Company
After Christopher Wheeldon’s departure from Morphoses, it’s “important to use this moment to commemorate the remarkable persistence and hard work of those who did stick with their companies for decades and decades. … Those who had to scrounge for the most meager budgets and who were not offered many performance opportunities.”
LA’s On-Location Filming Up 25% In First Quarter
“The upturn is welcome news to tens of thousands of workers who work behind the scenes on film sets and who’ve been hard hit by a production downturn over the last two years caused by labor unrest, recession and the migration of work outside of California.” Still, “on-location shoots remain well below the levels of 2007.”
The Delicious Badness Of Cinema’s Author Villains
“Every so often … filmmakers tell us what they really think about those perverse souls who cling to the fusty old medium of print — namely that they’re pretentious, manipulative, insecure and overly fond of the sauce. And, you know what? They’ve got a point, one we’d like to see them make more often.”
If The Postal Service Contracts, Does Netflix Follow?
“The elimination of Saturday delivery would mean that Netflix subscribers will have to endure two consecutive days of no service–nothing to scoff at in a time when consumers have come to expect high speeds and (nearly) instant gratification. And Saturday is a big movie day….”
Animating The Book Of Kells
“Using the scrollwork designs and microscopic detailing of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels likely dating to the early 8th century, ‘The Secret of Kells’ … evokes the feel of Celtic tradition and a culture long past.”
Charles Ryskamp, Who Directed Morgan, Frick, Dies at 81
Appointed director of the Morgan Library in 1969, he “made a number of highly important acquisitions” and “extended its reach in several areas, notably music and children’s literature. In 1987, Mr. Ryskamp became director of the Frick, where he was an animating presence, increasing the number of exhibitions and broadening their scope.”
UK Theatre Titan To Start Transatlantic Transfer Network?
Howard Panter, co-founder of the Ambassador Theatre Group, the UK’s biggest theatre owner, “hopes to increase the number of shows that transfer among a larger number of cities within the United States and Britain. Traditionally, most theater productions have moved mainly between London and Broadway.”
There Goes Another Conversation Starter; Thanks, E-Books
“With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not always possible to see what others are reading or to project your own literary tastes. You can’t tell a book by its cover if it doesn’t have one.”
Philip Roth, Boy Detective: The Case Of The Fake Interviews
After discovering that an Italian writer had sold a phony interview with him, attributing to him anti-Obama comments, Philip Roth got curious. He went online, in search of other interviews by the same guy, and found one, allegedly with John Grisham — also fictional, also with the anti-Obama sentiments.