“Bowing to continued financial pressure and a lack of donations, the Claremont Museum of Art said today that it would close its doors to the public on Dec. 27 and move its permanent collection to a warehouse. … The museum, which currently rents space in a former citrus packing plant, is scheduled to move out by Dec. 31.”
Tag: 12.22.09
‘1000 Times Yes,’ Rock Criticism Via Twitter, Tweets To Its End
“On his Twitter account, @1000TimesYes, [Christopher] Weingarten has been making good on his vow to provide bite-sized reviews of 1,000 albums over the course of the year.” The final tweet was sent at midnight Tuesday/Wednesday at a party Weingarten hosted in Brooklyn (at which he DJed a set of Christmas rap.)
Dylan Moran, ‘Britain’s Favourite Miserabilist Comedian’
“The thing is, you have to look for a commonality when you’re writing about anything and nothing is more universal than lifespan. … You just have to keep staring ahead, and what’s approaching is incontinence and memory loss.”
The Decade’s Ten Most Underrated Movies
Danny Leigh: “In short, what with this being the season of goodwill and so on, it might be apt to briefly pick out in the spotlight those films that didn’t quite get their due when they were first released, whether from critics, audiences or award ceremony judges.”
What Architecture Learned From Sin City
Forty-odd years ago, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown “were on a search for a way out of the dead end of postwar Modernism, whose early hopes had by then deteriorated into a dreary functionalism.” They found it in Las Vegas.
Met May Stage Zeffirelli’s Tosca In Tandem With Bondy’s
“Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, … stressed that the possible return of the [Franco] Zeffirelli ‘Tosca’ was unconnected to the response to the [controversial Luc] Bondy production. A final decision will be made by the time the Met’s 2010-2011 season is announced in late February, he said.”
Why Authors Shouldn’t Engage With Critics (Example 4,732)
“After Amazon reviewer LB Taylor gave [a] novel one star, calling it ‘a sad excuse for romance, mystery, and humor’, she found herself attacked online by one NiteflyrOne – shortly outed by commentors as Candace Sams, author of the novel.” But things got really weird when Sams wrote “that she’s reporting naysayers to the FBI.”
Steven Spielberg Snaps Up Rights To War Horse
DreamWorks has bought the rights to the 1982 novel by Michael Morpugo, on which the play is based. “With its innovative use of life-size puppets to depict the horses of the first world war, the story of a young Devon farmhand who braves the trenches in an effort to find his beloved colt has proved a huge success on stage.”
Kremlin Wants Cyrillic Web Domains, But Russians Don’t
As Russia pushes for “domain names in languages with non-Latin alphabets,” the nation’s people worry “that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet. “
‘Selfish Giving’ And Other Hazards Of Philanthropy
“[H]ow pure does giving have to be? If there’s anything in it for you — like a tax break or your name on a building — [does] that automatically diminish the gift?”