“Peter Heuken sees a hillside and thinks of a slide. He spots a stand of trees and envisions a climbing forest. A bridge, to him, looks like a perfect place to hang a swing.” But, says the architect, it’s not all child’s play: “Creativity is hard work.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
An Historic House, A Thomas Cole Painting, And A Lawsuit
At the Seward House Historic Museum, the central attraction used to be a Thomas Cole painting. But “early one morning last month movers escorted by the police pulled up to the house, removed the Cole landscape, which measures roughly 7 by 5 feet, from the drawing room and hauled it away.”
Can A Tourist-Driven Theatre Survive In A Small Town?
The answer is not anymore, not in a little town an hour north of Austin at the theatre where former President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna held a wedding rehearsal party.
Burkina Faso’s Film Industry Bounces Back – With Movies Made By And For Africans
“Whereas their predecessors shot lavish celluloid spectacles largely underwritten by European checkbooks, the younger generation of Burkinabé filmmakers are making low-budget movies shot on HD cameras with local funding and geared toward local audiences. Instead of thatched huts in the bush, they’re set in living rooms in the ‘burbs.”
What Skills MIght A Professional Dancer Need?
Puppeteering, obviously.
Yes, Comics Are Available For Free – And Sales Are Shooting Up
Even with a ton of torrenting and occasional free download offers, say comic book publishers, “digital brings new and lapsed readers to comics, so it’s additive to the overall industry. We are really interested in widening our readership, as that’s good for everybody.”
Pritzker Prize to Japanese Architect Toyo Ito
“The 71-year-old Ito is the dean of Japanese architecture, though with his mop of black hair he looks many years younger. He is best known for his 2001 Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box of a building that was dramatically shaken, though only lightly damaged, by the Tohoku earthquake two years ago.”
Christo’s Massive Indoor Air Dome Opens In Germany
“Big Air Package — a massive, inflated fabric dome standing 90m high and 50m across — completely fills Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen, a huge former natural gas holding tank that was converted into an event space and exhibition venue in 1988.”
Found: The Titanic Bandmaster’s Violin
“Survivors of the Titanic have said they remember the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck even as passengers boarded lifeboats after the ship hit an iceberg.”
Can Architects Sue For Their Unbuilt Museum?
“A federal judge will decide next week whether the U.S. National Slavery Museum’s largest creditor can move forward with a lawsuit involving deed restrictions on the museum’s property.”