“Called simply the Gulbenkian, the £175,000 award is worth more than four times the Turner Prize and outstrips the US-based ArtPrize, previously the world’s largest, at $250,000 (£153,000).”
Tag: 05.08.11
Big Publishers Band Together To Create On-Stop Shopping Site
“The site intends to provide information for all things literary: suggestions on what books to buy, reviews of books, excerpts from books and news about authors. Visitors will also be able to buy books directly from the site or from other retailers and write recommendations and reviews for other readers.”
Injured Actor Returns To Flying In “Spider-Man”
“Mr. Tierney flashed a thumbs-up sign, then pantomimed as if he was going to topple off the platform. A few people groaned; others laughed.”
Remembering Arthur Laurents
“It’s amusing to note that the notoriously pugnacious Mr. Laurents, who never met a score he didn’t want to settle, was involved in two of the most fruitful (if often fraught) collaborations in musical-theater history.”
How To Get Your Kids Interested In Broadway
“My children are now immersed in a world of iPads and text messages — and city kids are known for a been-there-done-that jadedness — but I was pleased that my teenage son and preteen daughter could nevertheless be charmed.”
Warning: Today’s Digital Art Will Be Lost Without Better Conservation
“A team of experts is warning that some of Britain’s contemporary artistic landmarks will be no more than memories within a decade unless conservationists can effectively archive digital works and stop them degrading.”
Wendy Whelan, Patti LuPone, Allegra Kent And Seven Deadly Sins
The two stars of choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s new version of the Brecht-Weill piece talk about creating the piece; Kent explains why Balanchine’s 1958 version, in which she starred, is unrecoverable.
How Woody Allen’s Latest Film Was Born, By Woody Allen
“As the local opinion makers revived and shuffled through the exits, I bumped into Philo Cubbage, a schmendrick I knew from the periphery of show business who surfaced intermittently over the years with some fresh scheme for achieving bankruptcy. … [We] agreed to masticate a pair of sirloins and repaired to Upchuck’s, where we could dine and disembowel the film we’d seen at leisure.”