“From November 27, the channels can be viewed online via their respective sites on bbc.co.uk at the same time as they are broadcast on television. They will also be available to licence fee payers using the internet on portable devices such as mobile phones… The channels join BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News, which are already simulcast.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Robert Lepage To Create New Show With Guillem, Maliphant
“World-renowned theatre maker Robert Lepage is to join forces with dancer Sylvie Guillem and choreographer Russell Maliphant to create a new show called Eonnagata, which will be staged as part of Sadler’s Wells spring 2009 season. The story recounts the life of Charles de Beaumont, a member of French King Louis XV’s spy network, the King’s Secret, whose true gender was a constant source of speculation right up to his death.”
Mexican Mural Sells For $6.8M
America, a 13-by-15-foot allegorical mural by Rufino Tamayo, has sold for $6.8 million at Sotheby’s. The mural, commissioned in 1995 by Houston’s Bank of the Southwest and sold to a collector in 1993 (and on loan ever since to the Dallas Museum of Art), is one of only five such works still in private hands in the U.S.
Universities Figuring Out How To Follow Their Students Online
“As online courses’ popularity continues to rise, many administrators are struggling with a steep learning curve, one whose ultimate end point is far from being determined. […] No two models are exactly alike, but as colleges experiment with ways to keep their faculty happy and their [online] courses high in quality, evidence of some common practices is emerging.”
MOCA Considers Selling Itself To LACMA
Christopher Knight of the L.A. Times hears that the board of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, facing a catastrophic fiscal crisis, is prepared to propose a formal merger with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Gil Shaham Ambushed With Avery Fisher Prize
Just as the violinist was finishing up a recital – being filmed by PBS for Live From Lincoln Center – conductor Gustavo Dudamel appeared in the audience and told Shaham and the crowd (and the TV viewers) that he had won the $75,000 award.
U.S. News Names MTT One of ‘America’s Best Leaders’ 2008
The magazine of lists places Michael Tilson Thomas alongside the likes of Steven Spielberg, Jeff Bezos, Robert Gates and Marian Wright Edelman, praising the San Francisco Symphony music director for his tireless and innovative efforts to attract new audiences to classical music.
Peeling The Onion: How ‘America’s Finest News Source’ Finds Its News
“In an inversion of the traditional editorial process, The Onion chooses its headlines and then invents stories to fit them. For a headline to have made the first cut, at least two of the six writers in attendance had to okay it, generally an occasion of little fanfare in which a couple of people threw up their hands and murmured with a defeated sigh, ‘Sure, why the hell not?'”
How Dancing Can Help You Succeed In Business, Administration, Or Just About Anything Else
Writer, administrator and former modern dancer John R. Killacky talks about how the skills dancing gave him helped with problem-solving, teamwork, spatial design, risk-taking and even recovery from spinal injury.
Does This Mean Goldman Sachs Will Sell Stradivari Bonds?
“Almost alone among investments, important violins have proved immune to economic downturns… During the market upheavals of recent weeks, spot gold prices bobbed at around eight hundred dollars per ounce. The best Stradivarius violin, on the other hand, could have gone for something like seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per ounce. That’s twelve million dollars for an avoirdupois pound of wood.”