“Last season, the company’s nine live opera broadcasts sold 2.4 million tickets in four dozen countries. Once everyone was paid, the Met still had $8 million (all figures U.S.) left over to help cover a deficit brought on by tough economic times at home.”
Tag: 09.28.10
Can You Judge A Novel By Its First (Or Last) Lines?
“Some will say it’s unfair, random and capricious, but I disagree. As readers we pay a lot of attention to (and love to quote) those striking first lines.”
Phillips Auction House Reinvents (Again)
“No art auctioneering company has been through so many changes in the last twelve years as Phillips, the company founded in London by Harry Phillips in 1796.”
Designs Unveiled For New Scottish Victoria & Albert Museum
“Six designs for the V&A Museum planned for Dundee’s waterfront will be unveiled at an exhibition in the city. The architects were shortlisted in May and asked to submit their designs for the building, due to be opened in 2014 as a centre of 21st Century design.”
Oprah To Reunite Original “Sound Of Music” Cast
“The US host has revealed plans to reunite the entire cast of 1965’s The Sound of Music, including Dame Julie Andrews’s first appearance in decades with the Von Trapp kids.”
NEA Chief Rocco Landesman: Arts Jobs Count Too
“There are 5.7million full-time arts-related jobs in this country; they’re a real constituency. We’re tired of being on the defensive. We’re going to be on the offensive.”
This Year’s MacArthur Fellows
The so-called “genius” awards give each of the 23 recipients $500,000 over five years.
Is It Ethical To Study Mummies?
“For some researchers, there is a growing concern about the ethics of research on Egyptian mummies, and this concern threatens to hamper progress.”
Gloria Stuart, Pre-War Movie Star Who Had Comeback in Titanic, Dead at 100
She made “a total of 46 films from 1932 to 1946. She abandoned movies, she said, after growing tired of being typecast as ‘girl reporter, girl detective, girl overboard.’ … Ms. Stuart had long since moved on from Hollywood when James Cameron, the director of Titanic, rediscovered her for the role of Rose Calvert, a 101-year-old survivor of the ship’s sinking. She was 86 at the time.”