“They love them in school uniform, all besuited and trotting along behind a teacher. They are very keen to support “out of the classroom learning” as long as those having the lessons are accompanied by plenty of classroom assistants. Then they’ll boast about how many young people have visited their museum each year, and how much they have learnt. Yet if these same teenagers turned up out of school hours, dressed in hoodies, T-shirts and trainers, they’d get a very different reception.”
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2012 Pritzker Prize To Architect Wang Shu
“The Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings in a rapidly developing China honor the past with salvaged materials even as they experiment with modern forms, has been awarded the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Mr. Wang is the first Chinese citizen to win the prize … and the fourth-youngest.”
Post-Oscars, France Celebrates Its Exception Culturelle
“For filmmakers, movie production officials and even some politicians, the haul was a clear endorsement of the so-called French cultural exception – the idea that filmmaking and other arts should be protected from the ravages of a market economy, through financial support and other means.”
Theater Producer Theodore Mann, 87, Founder Of Circle In The Square
“[As] a founder of the influential Circle in the Square, [Mann] was a driving force in the rise of Off Broadway theater in the 1950s … [and] had a hand in discovering or nurturing many stage actors who would go on to celebrated careers.”
Pakistanis Hail Their Nation’s First Oscar
“Wearily accustomed to being the focus of bad news, Pakistanis celebrated on Monday after a filmmaker from Karachi won the country’s first Academy Award, for a documentary about the victims of gruesome acid attacks.”
Gigantic Rock Is On Its Way To LACMA
“After nearly half a year of delays, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 340-ton monolith, sitting in a Riverside County quarry, will begin its long, circuitous journey to the museum Tuesday night.”