Istanbul has a new modern art museum and a brilliant new mega-shopping mall. “Its ‘building as landscape’ and sensuous curves tick boxes for architectural fashion, knocking spots off any mall built in Turkey or, indeed, in Britain, and an example of the boom in ‘experiential malls’ in America and the Far East, where quality of the experience counts as much as what’s sold inside.”
Tag: 08.15.06
Blog Theatre Hits At Edinburgh Fringe
“No fewer than four shows based on blogs are appearing at this year’s Fringe, including Girl Blog From Iraq: Baghdad Burning, taken from the writings of 27-year-old “Riverbend”, who records daily life in Iraq. But what’s surprising is that the wave of blog-inspired theatre has been so long in coming; after all, it’s the world’s fastest-growing genre of writing.”
Airline Security Endangers Musical Instruments
It’s getting more and more difficult for musicians to travel with their instruments as airline security gets tougher…
Met Opera Opening An Art Gallery
“The gallery, designed by the Manhattan architect Lindy Roy, is named Gallery Met; it is financed by a $1 million donation from Marie Schwartz, a Met board member. It will be open whenever the opera house or the box office is, and through the end of every performance. Nothing is for sale. When the works come down in May, at the end of the opera season, they are to be returned to the artists.”
Booker List – Very Familiar
“Among longlisted contenders seen as having a fair chance of reaching next month’s shortlist are the veteran writer and columnist Howard Jacobson…Others are the South African Nadine Gordimer for Get a Life, Kate Grenville for The Secret River and Barry Unsworth, joint winner of the prize in 1992, for The Ruby in Her Navel.”