“Is it a giant cocoon? The site of a pagan ritual? Or a 60-tonne pebble? Chilean architect Smiljan Radic breaks new ground with his creation for the annual experimental commission” in London’s Kensington Gardens.
Author: Matthew Westphal
They’re Going To Build A Garden Spanning The Thames
“Bursting out of the river in the form of two conjoined mushrooms, it would create a floating forest between Temple and the South Bank, held aloft on a shimmering copper canopy. It is scarcely less improbable than the heroic failures that have gone before – and yet it seems very likely to happen.”
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Soprano Fired By Opera Australia After Online Anti-Gay Tirade
“Opera Australia has released soprano Tamar Iveri from her contract following a furore over ‘unconscionable’ homophobic comments posted on the singer’s Facebook page.”
Steve Rossi, 82, Half Of Legendary Mid-Century Comedy Duo
“With Mr. Rossi as the good-looking one who sang and [Marty] Allen as the zany, childlike one who got the laughs, Allen and Rossi were reminiscent of the hottest comedy team of the early 1950s, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. But whereas Martin and Lewis specialized in broad physical comedy, Allen and Rossi’s humor was mostly verbal.”
UK National Gallery’s Director To Retire
“The National Gallery in London is on the hunt for a new director after Nicholas Penny announced his intention to retire after six years … in which visitor numbers reached record highs.”
So Many People Seem To Need Pocahontas, Even After Four Centuries
Laurie Gwen Shapiro travels to Historic Jamestowne for the 400th anniversary reenactment of Pocahontas’s wedding to English settler John Rolfe – and finds the chieftain’s daughter is still important to a surprising variety of individuals, from tourism officials (of course) to archaeologists to First-Families-of-Virginia aristocrats to native tribes still trying to get Federal recognition.
How Being A Professional Ballerina Helped Me Succeed As A CEO
Leigh Thomas: “If you start every day with a class, followed by rehearsals, then performances evenings and weekends, you know what work is.”
‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’ Heads Home As Mauritshuis Reopens
The museum in The Hague reopens on Friday “after a €22m renovation and expansion project begun in 2008,” and its director hopes that being back in business, and the return of the famous Vermeer from a world tour, will remind people that Girl With A Pearl Earring is not, in fact, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Your Favorite ‘NPR Show’ Probably Isn’t Made By NPR
The folks at NPR’s On the Media (not produced by NPR) explain the difference between public radio in general, the actual NPR network, the competitor networks (APM, PRI) whose shows air alongside NPR programs, the local public radio stations where most of us actually hear the shows, and local member stations who produce national programming.