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Tag: 08.31.10
Rich Turkish Families Racing To Accumulate, Display Art
“A quiet war is under way among Turkey’s richest families to assemble the best and most expensive art collections.”
Wonder How Museums Work? Tweet Away!
On 1 September, your questions could be answered if you take part in the first ever ‘Ask a Curator Day’ on social networking platform Twitter. Over 300 curators from museums around the world will be available for one on one Q+A’s, or you can post a general question using the tag “#askacurator” and a participating curator will reply.
Is The US Losing Its Global Edge In Higher Education?
“Tracking doctoral students by the beginning dates of their programs, the authors of one study in the book trace the startling increase in the share of Ph.D. candidates from abroad, from 29% for the cohort beginning study in 1980 to 49% in the 1996 cohort.”
US Movie Box Office Up $100 Million, But Attendance Down Sharply
“The actual number of tickets sold was expected to be 552m – the lowest since 2005, when the figure was 563.2m. The drop in attendance is thought to be due to a steep rise in ticket prices, mainly for 3D screenings.”
A Brick-and-Mortar Watershed? Upper West Side Barnes & Noble to Close
The five-floor outlet across Broadway from Lincoln Center, “one of the city’s largest and most prominent bookstores, [has] a sprawling space with a cafe on the fourth floor and an enormous music selection. For devoted theatergoers, it was a reliable site for readings and events that focused on the performing arts.” Due to a rent increase, the store will close in January.
Filmmaker Alain Corneau, 67
“[His] movies included science fiction, police thrillers, a look at office politics in Japan and a mood piece about ancient India, but his big success was Tous les Matins du monde,” a period piece about the Baroque composer Marin Marais starring Gérard Depardieu and his son Guillaume.