“Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop by Reginald Bakeley and Clint Marsh attracted 38 percent of 1,225 online votes to beat craft manual How Tea Cosies Changed the World with 31 percent to win the 35th annual Diagram Prize.”
Tag: 03.21.13
Now Even Dubai Has A Warehouse Gallery District
More than 20 galleries “have set up in a cluster of buildings around Al Serkal Avenue in Al Quoz in the past couple of years, attracted by the large spaces available and the neighborhood’s gritty, urban feel. … [Artists] have been drawn to Dubai to escape political turbulence in countries like Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia.”
25 Recordings Add To Library Of Congress Preservation Collection
Among them: a D-Day radio broadcast by journalist George Hicks, the original cast album of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” Simon and Garfunkel’s 1966 breakthrough “The Sound of Silence,” Pink Floyd’s rock opus “Dark Side of the Moon” and the defining platter of the disco era, the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.
The Impact Of Funding Cuts On Theatres?
“You’ll see an upsurge in the most popular GCSE texts – there are quite a lot of Of Mice And Men knocking around – and a lot of popular [shows], a lot of spectacular. But not a great deal of new writing.”
Rio Gets New Museum Of Contemporary Latin American Art
“Local officials aiming to transform Rio de Janeiro from a cultural backwater into an art hotspot are bolstering their campaign with this week’s opening of a museum” – Casa Daros – “built around one of the world’s premier collections of contemporary Latin American art.”
Elaine Stritch Is Giving Up On New York
The 88-year-old Broadway legend is doing one last show at the Carlyle Hotel, where she has been a longtime resident, and moving home to Michigan. “I’m just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don’t feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.”