Yukon art isn’t represented in Canada’s National Gallery. “We do try to acquire works from all of the regions in Canada but sometimes it’s just not that possible. I think that the Yukon has very strong artists and that our curators are in contact with many, many of them.”
Tag: 08.27.09
The Music On An Ancient Carving
It’s in Stirling Castle in Scotland. “A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stirling Heads – wooden medallions which would have decorated the castle’s royal palace. It is believed the music could have been played on instruments such as harps, viols, fiddles and lutes.”
Thirty Top Writers Donate Chapters For Human Rights Anthology
“Ariel Dorfman has tackled article nine, that ‘no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile’, while Marina Lewycka has taken on article four, that ‘no one shall be held in slavery’. Top authors around the world, from Joyce Carol Oates to Henning Mankell and David Mitchell, have come together to mark 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, penning short stories inspired by each of the declaration’s 30 articles.”
A TV Crime Series That’s A ‘Microcosm Of The German Federal Republic’
Tatort, which has run for 40 years and is now a national institution, is produced in 15 different regional versions (a Bavarian Tatort, a Saxon Tatort, and so on), all taking turns in the show’s time slot. “Each Tatort makes something of its regional roots, with actors speaking in local accents, solving crimes based on local imbroglios; and Germans talk about their favorite Tatort roughly the way they do about their local soccer teams.”
Novelist and Journalist Dominick Dunne, Dead At 83
“As a reporter for Vanity Fair magazine, Mr. Dunne was perhaps the country’s foremost chronicler of crimes among the privileged. He developed his journalistic specialty in a painfully personal way, when Tina Brown, the newly installed editor of the magazine, asked Mr. Dunne to cover the 1983 Los Angeles trial of a man charged with killing a promising young actress. The actress was Mr. Dunne’s 22-year-old daughter, Dominique Dunne.”