People try to touch him on the streets, stop him in airports for autographs – Frank Gehry talks about life as a star architect. – Washington Post
Tag: 11.14.99
NEW FILMMAKING MEGAPLEX opens in Sydney
With six sound stages, a “backlot” of movie-associated attractions, shopping village, cinema complex, and a “creative campus”, Fox Studios Australia is a serious new studio. Is Hollywood worried? London Sunday Times
DIRECT TO VIDEO
Just being dreadful isn’t the only reason some movies pass by the theaters and straight to the video racks. Sometimes it’s a niche thing. San Francisco Chronicle
“SPRING STORM”
A never-produced Tennessee Williams play comes to light. San Francisco Chronicle
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE LARGER THAN THEY APPEAR
Disappointing Diego Rivera retrospective fails to show range, sweep of artist’s work. Dallas Morning News
THE OUT-OF-TOWN ARCHITECT
Let’s put this puppy to bed once and for all. Chicago Tribune
AT THE RAW EDGE OF LIFE
An assessment of double-Booker novelist J.M. Coetzee’s work. – Boston Globe
GOODBYE TO MODERNISM, HELLO TO WHO-KNOWS-WHATISM
As the millennium closes where have the paths we have gone down in art led us? The Boston Globe looks at the century of arts. – Boston Globe
AND: A century tells the story of jazz
AND: An unpredictable century for classical music
AND: A roller-coaster century of technology and popular music
BOCELLI AFTER THE BOMB
Uniformly negative reviews of his North American opera debut won’t dissuade Andrea Bocelli from pursuing his dreams of a career in opera. – Chicago Tribune
UCHIDA AND GOODE TO DIRECT MARLBORO
Pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode have been named artistic directors of the Marlboro Music Festival. – Chicago Tribune