Jeremy Deller may be the artist of the hour with his Turner Prize win. But he’s ready to be rid of the attention and get back to work. “True, he may be £25,000 richer, he may have had the opportunity to make his parents proud and to thank friends and collaborators live on Channel 4, but the evening was not without its moments, or even hours, of torture.”
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Crete Islanders Pool Resources For El Greco
Residents of the island of Crete are banding together hoping to buy a painting by El Greco that is up for auction. “He is the most important person Crete has ever produced. It upsets us that … so many think he is from Spain.”
Australia’s Favorite Book
It’s Lord of the Rings, as named by voters in a national poll. “The book’s enduring popularity was confirmed last night when The Lord of the Rings was named Australia’s “favourite read” on ABC TV, its third victory in TV polls. It won in Britain and Germany. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was voted Australia’s second favourite, with the Bible third. The best-placed Australian book was Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, which made fifth spot.”
The Complexity Of Scala’s Opening
“Socially, the occasion was not quite as illustrious as the theatre authorities had hoped. They had invited the Queen and presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac, among others. Instead they got King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, and the president of Switzerland.”
Huxtable: MoMA Gets It Right
Ada Louise Huxtable has had a life-long relationship with the Museum of Modern Art, following its various incarnations on 53rd St. And the latest version? it’s “a suavely sophisticated, exquisitely executed, elegantly understated building that doubles the museum’s size. Mr. Taniguchi’s style–where less is so much more than trendy minimalism, with every carefully reasoned detail honed as close to perfection as possible–is the right architecture for the Modern. It is also the right building for New York.”