“Kapoor intends to erect four giant PVC orbs that, when inflated, will fill the height, length and width of the 145,000-square-foot [Grand Palais in Paris]. The piece will be a major departure for the artist, who works almost exclusively with solid, predominantly metal, constructions.”
Tag: 04.28.11
Challenge For New Director Of Chicago Lyric Opera
“At some point he needs to look beyond the uncertain economic horizon and make the buck-stops-here decisions that will make Lyric at least something of the pace-setter among major opera companies that it was during the Ardis Krainik era of the 1980s and ’90s.”
NY City Ballet Contract Talks ‘Headed For Disaster,’ Says Union Head
AGMA executive director Alan Gordon: “The question the dancers ask now is not whether or not they should engage in some kind of job action, but what kind of job action to engage in and how destructive to make it, so the company is forced to pay attention to their needs.”
Chinese Rock Star Arrested For Defending Ai Weiwei
“Zuoxiao Zuzhou was detained and released by police in Shanghai earlier this week after publicly expressing support for Ai – a longtime friend and artistic collaborator – during a rock concert and in a newspaper editorial.”
Steve Reich Goes Back To Using Recorded Voices
“‘All the synthesizers in the world can’t compare to the richness of human speech as a sound source,’ says Mr. Reich … ‘A recording of your voice, my voice, is as much who we are as a photograph. Maybe more’.”
Winnie Mandela Says Opera About Her Is The Greatest Honor She’s Had
“In all my career of fighting, I’ve never been short of words, but tonight I am. This is the first time I have got such accolades from my country, this surpasses anything I have known.”
L.A. MOCA’s Street Art Show Faces Conflict-Of-Interest Issue
“In planning and executing an exhibition, when is it OK for a nonprofit art museum to forge ties with a profit-seeking art entrepreneur? Roger Gastman, hired as the show’s associate curator, has both ironclad credentials as a historian of street art and a clear commercial interest in it via R. Rock Enterprises.”
Egypt’s Answer To Jon Stewart
“Bassem Youssef, a 37-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon, is closing a television deal that would make him one of the top paid talents on Egyptian television, a rise to stardom that began less than two months ago – on YouTube.”
Do High-Tech Gadgets Spell The Death Of Cursive Script?
“For centuries, cursive handwriting has been an art. To a growing number of young people, it is a mystery. The sinuous letters of the cursive alphabet … are going the way of the quill and inkwell.”
Economics Smackdown: Keynes vs. Hayek Via Rap and YouTube
“In the impressively produced rap video Fight of the Century … Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes square off to argue over such questions as whether the government should spent less or more, the source of prosperity, and whether war or natural disasters be a blessing in disguise.”