“The Metropolitan Museum of Art will take over the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Marcel Breuer building in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, according to the terms of a real estate agreement that the museum boards are pursuing.”
Tag: 05.12.11
Woody Allen: ‘I’m Not An Artist … Just Very Lucky’
“I think I’ve had some talent but it doesn’t go as far as being an artist, because if you think that Kurosawa was an artist and Bergman was an artist and Bunuel was an artist and [Federico] Fellini, then it’s clear as a bell that I’m not an artist.”
A Century Of Yiddish Humor, All In One Woman
“At 100 years old, [Bel] Kaufman is still shpritzing jokes, Jewish and otherwise, which is in her genes. Her grandfather was the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem,” who created the Tevye character now known from Fiddler on the Roof. This year she “became one of the few adjunct professors in her age cohort and taught a course on Jewish humor at Hunter College, her alma mater.”