Thailand has plans to build a large Smithsonian-style museum. “The project is intended to bring various kinds of museums under one roof – the new museum would have exhibits in eight fields _ science and technology, history, archaeology, art, anthropology, ethnicity, geography and environment.”
Tag: 01.05.03
A Pirate Museum For Key West
An entrepreneur has announced plans to open a pirate museum in Key West (once the base to pirates). “The museum will feature items from his pirate collection, including a treasure chest from Capt. Thomas Tew and the last journal from Capt. William Kidd, a 17th Century pirate who was executed for his crimes. ‘I want people to say, ‘Wow!’ when they see it. We’ll take them back in time’.”
Artist Jailed For Selling Basquiat Fakes Finds Career Rolls Along
Alfredo Martinez was jailed in June 2002 for faking drawings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and and he’s serving a sentence of three years. “But that has hardly affected his artistic productivity: The work he has made in the pen has been in four shows, including solo exhibitions in New York and Paris…”
Broadway’s Mid-Season Report Card
“At the midpoint of the 2002-03 season, it looks to be in many respects lively, productive and financially healthy. Halfway through the season – which begins and ends in early May – there’s a certain comfort level. And if this spring starts to heat up, as it traditionally does, then it could mean a record-breaking season.”
Pitiless TV Critiques From The Web Have Hollywood’s Attention
In an industry where ratings are everything, websites that hash over the latest series offerings have found big influence in Hollywood. One – a site called Television Without Pity – has attracted a regular following of people who run the shows – all who want to know what the fans on the site think of their work. TWoP tends to be merciless…
50 Arts Events Not To Miss In 2003
What 50 arts/cultural events should you simply not miss in 2003? London’s Observer does the rundown…
Looking For Insight – Artists Come To New York
Last month a group of Vietnamese artists came to New York to get ideas and insights from the city’s artists. “We’re living in the twilight. It’s not socialism, and it’s not capitalism. Experimental artists like us have to do things for ourselves, but we have to do it quietly so no one will bother us.”
What Makes A Movie Star?
Talent? Hard work? Not necessarily. “It’s just a personality thing that has nothing to do with acting that most people who are successful have. It’s a certain charisma, an energy you’re attracted to. Established actors usually have it. Some people have it only under certain circumstances. But either you have it or you don’t.
Broadway Comes To Disney
“Disney wants to replicate in the theme parks a formula that has paid dividends for another division: Disney Theatricals, which produces the company’s Broadway shows. Take a beloved Disney property (“The Lion King”), turn it over to an accomplished avant-garde stage artist with a distinctive visual flair (director Julie Taymor), and reap critical kudos and huge profits.”
What’s A Young Theatre Artist To Do?
When the UK’s repertory theatre system collapsed in the 1970s “visionary artists ran to the fringe and reinvented their art form from scratch.” But how did those artists support themselves? They went on the dole. And some of today’s best-known artists got their starts that way. Today the dole has been replaced by a system that requires full-time availability for paid work. “To bend the rules and do creative work while ‘signing on’, as we all did in the mad years of early Thatcherism, is no longer possible.”