Thanks to an emir with two humanities PhDs and, notably, his educated and energetic daughter, Sharjah actively encourages both traditional and contemporary art – and makes a point of making the art accessible citizens, visitors, and even Pakistani and Filipino migrant workers.
Tag: 03.29.12
Nuns From Kathmandu Help Restore 400-Year-Old Tibetan Paintings
“Conservators from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston called upon the services of nuns from Kathmandu, as well as Tibetan and Taiwanese specialists in silk brocades and Japanese fabricators of gilt-bronze decorative ornaments for an ambitious, two-year project to restore a series of 400-year-old thangkas or Tibetan paintings.”
Why Do Fantasy Characters All Have British Accents?
“‘It’s such an ingrained part of fantasy and science fiction that I’m a little surprised when those kind of characters don’t speak in British accents,’ says [critic] Matt Zoller Seitz, who suggests one reasonable explanation.
What Do We Want From A Theatre Review? (Well, Who’s This ‘We’?)
“What do we actually want from a theater review? Here’s a catalogue of desires from a few sides.” (Add your own in the comments.)
Berlin Tries To Save Nightclubs From Gentrification
“Politicians in Berlin have launched a campaign to rescue the city’s legendary nightclub scene from the spectre of property investors in the hope of salvaging the capital’s reputation as one of Europe’s party hotspots. A ‘Music Board’ fund of around €1m (£835,000) has been set up to help protect the city’s shrinking club scene.”
Lord Puttnam: Education And The Arts Are Essential If We Want To Have A Future
“It’s not that I simply want a more imaginative future – it’s more the case that… there won’t be much of a future of any sort unless we’re prepared to become significantly more imaginative – most particularly in respect of the way in which we educate people.”
Knoedler Gallery Accused Of Selling Fake Rothko
“A South Carolina family filed a $25 million lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday against what had been New York’s oldest art gallery, Knoedler & Company, charging that the dealer and its former president conspired to sell it a fake Mark Rothko painting.”
Do Good Children’s Books Writers Need To Be Child-like Themselves?
“Is it possible that the most inspired children’s book writers never grow up? By that I don’t mean that they understand or have special affection or affinity toward children, but that they don’t understand adulthood, and I mean that in the best possible sense. It may be that they haven’t moved responsibly out of childhood the way most of us have, into busy, functional, settled adult life.”
Are Legal Ticket Scalpers Driving Audiences Away From London’s West End?
“All the way through the first run of One Man, Two Guvnors – even at the National [Theatre] – we had a war against ticket touts. We had a returns queue, and people were sending agents to queue – they would pick up their tickets and they’d sell two £30 tickets for £100 each to American tourists.”
Mike Daisey Takes Stage At Woolly Mammoth… And Listens
“Daisey appeared, greeted with polite applause. Without notes and sounding very abashed, he apologized for roughly a minute. “I’m sorry . . . I failed you,” he said. The apology, not quite as uncomfortable as the cross-examinations that exposed Daisey on the March 16 radio episode of “This American Life,” was met with a hard-to-read silence.”