“Around 30 paintings, including works by Picasso and Rousseau, valued at around a million euros (1.4 million dollars), have been stolen from a private villa in the south of France … The reported burglary in La Cadiere d’Azur comes after a pastel by Degas disappeared from the Cantini museum in Marseille on New Year’s Eve.”
Tag: 01.02.10
London Stage Flourished In ’09. Explanation, Please.
“Figures out later this month from the Society of London Theatre … are expected to show 2009 was a record breaking year – with more than 14 million tickets sold. The straight play has done particularly well.” But why did this happen during an economic slump?
The World Through Screens – Should We Worry?
“A generation of young people is growing up with no concept of life without a screen and a keypad. At home, at school, on the bus, in the street – wherever they are, they’re plugged in and hooked up. With its instant links and global reach, the web is a miracle – but also a trap.”
Suspect Arrested In New Year’s Degas Theft
“A security guard noticed Les Choristes (The Chorus) – on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris – was missing from the city’s Cantini Museum on 31 December. Public prosecutor Jacques Dallest said there were no signs of a break-in.”
For What Will The Oughties Be Remembered?
“Many years from now, when this decade has been picked-over and pulverized and smoothed out, defined by a few inevitably glib reference points and given its final shape, when it has been reinvented and remembered as something simpler (something we would not recognize), when it has been vivisected and stripped of everything that meant anything these past 10 years, how will this first decade of the 21st century be remembered?”
Rome’s New Modern Museum
“The plan for Rome’s new €150m Maxxi museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, looks like a diagram of a highly complex railway junction. It is hardly the most romantic image for a building billed as the city’s first major gallery of contemporary art, due to open in the spring.”
The Unsinkable Tina Brown
For Tina Brown, there isn’t much of a downside to professional risk anymore. “One of the the great things about having had something that didn’t work out,” she said, “is: So what? I am fine.”
Showdown Between Cable And Networks
“Many questions remain for cable TV viewers nationwide even after Fox and Time Warner Cable settled their noisy spat with a New Year’s Day agreement.”