“Funny how the minute an ultracool architect like Frank Gehry comes to town, some folks get maniacally insecure and start up with the talk about how utterly uncool Washington is.” Washington City Paper
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INVERTED PYRAMID
Egypt will celebrate the millennium with a 24-hour program atop the Great Pyramid. One critic wonders why we have to deface great works of art. Have we lost our ability to revere? Why must great art be accessibilized? National Post (Canada)
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Yamaha introduces a new silent cello. – CBC
SAY IT AIN’T SO SNOOPY
- Charles M. Schultz announces his retirement, due to colon cancer. – BBC
- New York Times account
ALL-ARTS RADIO CLOSES
Atlanta’s quirky alternative all-arts station WGKA-AM will go off the air after three years of “the city’s most diverse and unpredictable programming.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NEW CABLE CHANNEL –
– offers international news from Beijing to Belfast. Variety
ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART WE LIVE WITH
So why, in the land of the birth of the skyscraper, are the latest tall buildings so dreadful? Chicago Tribune
IT’S A BROOKLYN PROBLEM …
Guggenheim Museum will do an Armani show – but museum failed to reveal the designer had pledged a $15 million gift to the museum. New York Times
FRANCE RETURNS ART –
– stolen by the Nazis. Toronto Globe and Mail
AFRICAN VOICES
Ambitious new African gallery opens at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. “What we were trying to show is that what Africa is, what Africa has been, and what it can become, can be told through the creative skills of the people. What Africa is has often been lost in crisis,” said C. Payne Lucas, the president of Africare, a nonprofit aid organization and one of the advisers to the show. Washington Post
- PREVIOUSLY: OUT OF AFRICA: Smithsonian, undergoing $100 million renovation, has difficulty finding funds for large new gallery on African culture, set to open next month. Washington Post 11/17/99