“For the first time, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain’s ability to make decisions and to rest.”
Tag: 02.16.10
Is Racial Diversity In Broadcast TV Having A Breakthrough?
“Halfway through the castings of broadcast drama pilots this season, the top-billed actors on four pilots are non-Caucasian. What’s more, the four projects are among the highest-profile drama pilots this year.”
At Last, Opera Grand Rapids Moves Into Its Own Home
After decades of wandering from one rehearsal space to another, the company has begun “moving into the Betty Van Andel Opera Center, a $2.5 million building erected to become the company’s first permanent home in its 42-year history.” The Betty includes “a costume shop, prop storage, rehearsal rooms, meeting rooms, a library, offices and a permanent box office.”
Contemplating The (Guggenheim’s) Void
“As part of its ongoing 50th anniversary celebration, the museum invited nearly 200 architects, artists and designers to propose fanciful new uses for the 90-foot-high rotunda of its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building.” The curators “asked the participants, whose biggest names include Anish Kapoor, Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier, Alvaro Siza, Toyo Ito and Rachel Whiteread, to leave ‘practicality and even reality behind’.”
Ex-RISD Director To Head Palm Beach’s Norton Museum
Hope Alswang, “who is widely credited with reviving the RISD Museum after several years of lackluster programming and sagging public interest” before resigning abruptly last summer, will be the new director of the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Fla.
AG Asked To Probe Fresno Museum’s Sale Of Its Collection
The “action comes as the [nonprofit Fresno Metropolitan Museum] is scheduled to auction its non-art property today, with proceeds going toward the $4 million in debt that led in part to the museum’s demise last month. … Museum officials have said they are negotiating over an auctioneer and a sale date” for the art in the collection.
Michael Kaiser: Arts Managers Kind Of Hate My Advice
“One arts leader accused me publicly of living in a parallel universe. He was quite upset that his artistic director and his unionized artists threw my advice in his face when he felt he had to make programming cuts. … He was not amused that his artists kept saying, ‘Michael Kaiser says this, Michael Kaiser says that.'”
Dancers Talk Figure Skating
Mark Morris: “If one is gay, as am I, one is supposedly predisposed to adore figure skating. I missed that day at Gay High.”
Most Plagiarism Scandals Are Overblown, But Not This One
“What smells off” in the case of 17-year-old German novelist Helene Hegemann “is precisely Hegemann’s claim to be using her borrowings to advance a cutting-edge concept of artistry. … This would be more plausible if Hegemann had acknowledged from the beginning that she’d included work from other writers in ‘Axolotl Roadkill,’ but by all indications, she did not.”
Roger Ebert Has Lost His Voice And His Jaw, But Definitely Not His Mind
“It has been nearly four years since [he] lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.”