The Guggenheim has unveiled plans for a new Taiwan outpost. “The proposed museum, designed by noted architect Zaha Hadid, includes several sections of the museum that can change position on demand. The entire West Wing, a two-story structure with a 3,583 square meter base is designed to move either through a rail or air cushion system into three different positions, while the East gallery includes a 440 square meter platform which can move between the first and second floor galleries like a gigantic elevator.”
Tag: 07.16.03
Did Bob Dylan Steal His Word? (Couldn’t Be)
“The discovery last week (first reported on the front page of The Wall Street Journal) that Mr. Dylan may have lifted as many as a dozen lines for his remarkable 2001 album, ‘Love & Theft,’ from Japanese writer Junichi Saga, and his 1989 book ‘Confessions of a Yakuza,’ is a nonstory. The singer, as anyone with even a passing interest in pop music and American culture of the last 40 years knows, is both playful musical archaeologist and sly trickster – a man of many masks.”
Kenyan Wins African Writing Prize
Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor has won the Caine Prize for African Writing. “Her story is written in the voice of an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide. The prize, worth $15,000, is given for a short story written in English by an African author and is considered one of the most prestigious awards for African literature.”
Opera Buff-a
“Onstage nudity is costing Opera Australia nearly three times the going rate, as it gears up for the production of the passionate Richard Strauss opera Salome. During the Dance of the Seven Veils, four dancers will unveil just about everything, at a total cost to the company in nudity payments of $140 per performance.”