“It’s no longer enough for a museum to put up a Web site and hope that people find it. Many museums are discovering that the Web 2.0 world lets them advance their mission online to bring in new and often younger visitors and to educate a wider audience.”
Tag: 03.12.08
Pianist Father Rescues Conductor Son At Boston Symphony
Julian Kuerti was to conduct Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto with the Boston Symphony, featuring renowned pianist Leon Fleisher. But when Fleisher was struck by stomach flu on Tuesday afternoon, and was unable to play, Kuerti’s father Anton, the famed Canadian pianist, made sure the show went on for his son.
LA County Museum Buys 20 Acres Across The Street
“We saw this as an opportunity to develop key parts of the campus. We don’t have specific plans for the property. It was an opportunity to buy something, and we bought it. . . . We’d love a subway stop.”
Kate Christensen Wins PEN/Faulkner Award
She won the Fiction award for her novel The Great Man, a satire skewering the art world, biographers and the myth of greatness in artists.
An Experiment In Opera With High-Tech Characteristics
The English National Opera and the Young Vic Theatre are producing wwo chamber operas using both hi-tech and traditional approaches. “If it succeeds, the collaboration, certain to become an annual event, could lure new audiences and help give contemporary opera, traditionally regarded as difficult and esoteric, a chic and radical makeover.”
America’s Uncomfortable History Of Political Theatre
“America has never taken particularly well to political theater. Even in its heyday in the 1930s, when playwrights like Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, and Clifford Odets dominated the stage, plays focused more on social criticism than full-throated cries for social change.”
It’s Herbert von Karajan’s 100th Anniversary (Ho-Hum)
“Karajan isn’t being celebrated because he was an especially profound musician. He’s being celebrated because he was enormously successful and enormously rich. No one ever nominates Karajan’s recording of a work as their favourite, though his version might come in at number three or four.”
Major UK Film Tax Loophole Closed
“A tax loophole that some experts believe was worth up to £1bn to the global film industry has been closed.”
13 Million Photographs At Your Fingertips
“There is no central department for locating images by photographer, subject or theme for the artwork. But an online project, the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, intends to change that.”
Final Harry Potter Book To Be Made Into Two Movies
“After months of rumors, Warner Bros. and the producers of the massively successful movies will announce Thursday that they plan to split “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final “Potter” novel, into two blockbuster films — one to be released in November 2010 and the second in May 2011.”