As the millennium closes where have the paths we have gone down in art led us? The Boston Globe looks at the century of arts. – Boston Globe
AND: A century tells the story of jazz
AND: An unpredictable century for classical music
AND: A roller-coaster century of technology and popular music
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BOCELLI AFTER THE BOMB
Uniformly negative reviews of his North American opera debut won’t dissuade Andrea Bocelli from pursuing his dreams of a career in opera. – Chicago Tribune
UCHIDA AND GOODE TO DIRECT MARLBORO
Pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode have been named artistic directors of the Marlboro Music Festival. – Chicago Tribune
“MICHELANGELO AND BACH WERE IN ADVERTISING?”
Consumer culture is so ingrained in modern life that traditional barriers between art and advertising have eroded. Toronto Globe and Mail
DUMMIES FOR ART
Say it loud. Say it proud. New “Art For Dummies” book works to appeal to those happy to proclaim their educational deficiencies. Globe and Mail
PROTESTS by Catholics and Christian fundamentalists –
– draw attention to “Dogma,” a movie about vengeful angels. It’s a “freewheeling, irreverent, disorderly and, above all, juvenile comic fantasy so sloppy, so silly and so puerile that it would have died quickly on the vine had it not become a stimulus for religious and political mouthpieces,” writes one critic. Detroit News
ALTERNATIVELY: Movie is a “celebratory leap of faith.” Salon 11/12/99
IVY LEAGUE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM
Top universities explore online learning – but first they have to learn themselves what learning works best. Wired
THE SHIP WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN
No simple filmmaker. A conversation with Werner Herzog. New York Press
STRONG BUT THIN
Last week’s auctions at Sotheby’s produced sales of $144 million, including 5 paintings which went for more than $10 apiece. Here’s a scorecard. Artnet.com
And: The story behind the star – Picasso’s Femme Assise dans un Jardin (painted in 1938), goes for $49.5 million. Artnet.com 11/12/99
ROCKWELL ROCKS
What does it say about us and our point in art history that Norman Rockwell is getting some positive critical attention? The Idler