A slideshow. “Everyone from the most high profile “starchitect” on down has seen their business affected by This New Reality. Here are some of the projects set to open their doors, break ground, or gain attention in 2010.”
Tag: 03.01.10
The Art Of Revision
“Revisions emerge as a favorite authorial pursuit, more ecstasy than agony. For this reason, writers like talking revisions, turn expansive, reveal themselves. What they say about revisions provides readers, fans and writing students with startling insights into the confounding and convoluted creative process-what works, what does not.”
Blow To Architectural Tours? Chicago River May Be Closed
“As state and federal officials hunt down the elusive Asian carp, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking at the financial and environmental costs of closing navigational locks in Chicago waterways and shutting down the Chicago River to boat traffic as many as four days a week.”
Actor-Dancer-Director-Choreographer Wendy Toye, 92
“Wendy Toye made her first stage appearance at the Albert Hall at the age of 3, and went on to develop a career of extraordinary diversity, as a dancer and choreographer, actress and director of opera and stage plays. She was also one of Britain’s few female film directors.”
What Oscar-Winning War Movies Tell Us About Ourselves
Unlike “The Hurt Locker,” Oscar winners “Patton,” “The Deer Hunter” and “Platoon” were box-office hits. “[N]ot only were audiences eager to see a complex portrayal of a World War II warrior at the height of the Vietnam War, but they were just as willing to embrace two very dark, disturbing portraits of the Vietnam quagmire in the years following the end of that war.”
Karaoke Yiddish Theatre
“The newly expanded Jewish Museum in north London has built a tiny interactive theatre – a karaoke machine – so you can declaim the Yiddish classics.” Hear, and even recite, for instance, Shylock’s famous speech: “Hot a yid nisht keyn oygn, nisht keyn hent, glider, gelfiln, laydnshaftn?”
Conservatory Students May Be Turning To Beta Blockers
Use of the little white pills, which suppress such physical effects of adrenaline as trembling, rapid heartbeat and sweating, is widespread among professional musicians facing major performances or auditions. “Most [conservatory] students say beta blockers are not commonly used, but some quietly acknowledge that the drug is more common than outsiders would imagine or administrators might like to admit.”
Selling The Idea Of An Arts Center In Vegas
“On two occasions Don Snyder approached one of the nation’s largest private philanthropic organizations about supporting a performing arts center in Las Vegas. Both times, Snyder says, the foundation said it wasn’t interested in getting behind the project.” Ultimately, Snyder convinced the foundation to provide more than $150 million. How did he do it?
In Puerto Rico, Recession Forces Changes In Arts Funding
“There is a European flavor to the funding of the arts in Puerto Rico,” including the fact that board members “are not routinely expected to make financial contributions or to play a central role in fundraising.” New “pressure to increase private funding dramatically” means that “boards will have to change their roles.”
The Onion On Recession Rise In Museum Attendance
(The people interviewed do not, strictly speaking, exist.)