“The RSC today publishes a learning manifesto arguing for children to start Shakespeare as early as possible, to see it live and to learn it through drama and practical workshops.”
Tag: 03.03.08
The Mark Of A Great World City
“The idea that major cities of the world, rather than the nations they belong to, will be the rising powers of the 21st century is a fashionable one these days. These wealthy cities set the world agenda in finance and fashion and just about everything in between.” So where does Los Angeles and its telegenic mayor fit?
The Truth About Educational Consequences
“Obsession with standardized testing has reduced primary and secondary education to little more than rote learning that continues to leave far too many children behind. Corporate titans have dumbed down the press and transformed TV news coverage into platforms for right-wing blowhards. Meanwhile, regardless of political viewpoint, most can agree that study after study reveals American students to be woefully ignorant of geography, history and science compared with their overseas counterparts.”
Disney Hall Sues Claes Oldenburg Over Sculpture
“Collar and Bow, a 65-foot-tall sculpture of men’s formalwear accessories, was supposed to go up in 2004 to provide a jaunty greeting outside Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Los Angeles Music Center, which hired Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, is suing the married couple, along with fabricators and engineers who tried to assemble their work, in Los Angeles County Superior Court.”
A Book Grows In Brooklyn
“As you may have heard, all the writers are in Brooklyn these days. It’s the place to be. You’re simply not a writer if you don’t live here. Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”
Rem Koolhaus Plans A Dubai Manhattan
“Designed for one of the biggest developers in the United Arab Emirates, Nakheel, Rem Koolhaas’s master plan for the proposed 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City in Dubai would simulate the density of Manhattan on an artificial island just off the Persian Gulf.”
Christoph Büchel Continues His Fight Against MassMoCA
Büchel is making art “based on the thousands of pages of correspondence and museum documents made public in the discovery phase of the lawsuit. Mr. Büchel’s lawyer is also demanding that other documents that Mass MoCA designated as confidential during the case be made public so that Mr. Büchel can use them as art material too.”
You Pick The Opera
Chicago Opera Theater (not the Lyric), is allowing patrons and anyone to vote — at a dollar a vote — for one of the operas it will produce in 2010. They are calling it “The People’s Opera.”