— big winners at Golden Globes. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/24/00
- AMERICAN BEAUTY big winner at Golden Globes. – BBC 01/24/00
- New York Times account. 01/24/00
- GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS listed. – BBC 01/24/00
Blog
CONTENT OF FORM
Robert Redford reflects on the dance of independents as Sundance opens. – Variety 01/24/00
DEBATING ARTS EDUCATION
This week education directors from around the US will gather in Los Angeles to talk about the current state of arts education – what works, what doesn’t, and what to do. – Orange County Register
COURTING THE STAR CONDUCTOR
Simon Rattle has his pick of orchestras to lead, and almost any of them would be thrilled to have him. He chose Berlin, or rather they chose him, but already the speculation about his future is interesting. – New York Times
BERLIN OPERA CRISIS
Four-part series examines a behind-the-scenes crisis in Berlin’s opera landscape. Part I examines the Deutsche Oper – Last October, on the day of the important premiere of a new production of Schönberg’s “Moses und Aron,” fifteen members of the orchestra phoned in “ill,” forcing the company to frantically phone around several European cities and fly in replacements literally at the last second. Within days the entire orchestra was out on a full-blown strike, resulting in numerous cancelled performances, including all subsequent presentations of “Moses und Aron.” – Die Welt
SING LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
Contemporary opera is suddenly hot, and amid the wave of premieres, other late 20th Century operas are also getting a rehear. Among them Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten,” revived at Boston Lyric Opera, the work’s first production in 11 years. Glass reflects on the piece and the business of modern opera. – Boston Globe
QUAKEPROOFING FOR ART
A $150 million retrofit of San Francisco’s old public library for a museum of Asian art is the Bay Area’s most ambitious museum reaction to its earthquake problem. – San Francisco Chronicle
- St. Louis Museum ponders a quake of its own. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ARTBRIDGE
- The Milwaukee Art Museum is building a new landmark bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava designed to boost the museum’s profile. With a length of 231 feet, topped by a 192-foot tower, the free-floating span is said to be an engineering feat of immense proportions. – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
FOR THE SOUL OF A CITY
“Joining a debate as old as the reunification of Germany itself, the President of the Berlin Chamber of Architects, has called on the city to abandon “reactionary” plans to rebuild the Emperors’ Palace on Unter den Linden and instead build a future-oriented and community-friendly structure. Rebuilding the Stadtschloss, the Hohenzollern palace blown up by the East German government in 1950, would, he said, produce a fake Disney-esque facade that might become a tourist destination but would leave a hollow heart in the city.” – Die Welt
LIFE AS A FLAMBOYANT POSEUR
Was Salvador Dali a great surrealist painter and draftsman or merely a buffoonish public charlatan and poseur? A new 60-painting show at Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum begs the question. – Hartford Courant