“[Her] production company, MTM Enterprises, created groundbreaking TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere. But she was primarily considered one of television’s finest comic actresses because of her roles on two of the most popular sitcoms of all time.”
Tag: 01.25.17
Christo Walks Away From His Big Colorado Project
“For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But Christo said this week that he had decided to walk away from the Colorado project — a silvery canopy suspended temporarily over 42 miles of the Arkansas River.”
The Artists Who’ve Stayed On In Syria
Says one, painter and sculptor Fadi Yazigi , “Art is not only part of my survival – it’s also a way of looking for a solution.” Another, calligrapher Mouneer Al Shaarani, actually moved back to Syria from Egypt after the war started.