“The Nobel academy said Pinter’s work ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms’. The playwright is known for speaking out on issues like the war on Iraq. He is the first British winner since VS Naipaul in 2001.”
Tag: 10.13.05
Barnes Reattributes Old Masters
One hundred and twenty Old Master paintings in the Barnes Collection have been reattributed. “Some 22 works formerly attributed to Bosch, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, El Greco, Watteau and others have been reattributed by scholars taking part in the Collection Assessment Project, which has been examining the foundation’s roughly 9,000 objects and works of art over the past four years.”
Experts Gather To Discuss Rebuilding Gulf Coast
More than 200 architects and city planners gather to talk about rebuilding the Gulf Coast. “On Wednesday, the opening day, many participants suggested that while they intended to respect the local character, they did not hope to replicate what existed before the hurricane. ‘People know that this took a wrong turn somewhere. People know this has become honky-tonk, and this is the chance to get it right. This place has lost its neighborhood structure over the last 50 years. This is a chance to rezone it in a much finer grain, so people can walk to the corner store, kids can walk to school’.”
The New deYoung Soars
“The new de Young Museum, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, is proof that despite these naysayers, a museum can be both gorgeous to look at and a cozy place to view art. Clad in its elegant copper skin, this building suggests that art and architecture can make good bed partners, after all, and that a dialogue between the two can be creatively fruitful.”