“The bright yellow rectangle includes all 224 words of [teenager] Eoin Moore’s short story which strives to capture the ‘essence’ of the capital. It was chosen from a host of works completed by participants in Dublin’s Fighting Words creative writing programme.”
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Frank Lloyd Wright Homes Are Splendid – Unless You Live In One
“It’s often tricky to renovate an architectural treasure while preserving Wright’s innovations, such as radiant-floor heating, carports, built-in furniture and soaring clerestory windows. Meanwhile, permanent easements held by the Wright conservancy on 16 private Wright residences limit exterior alterations.”
Intellectual Foodie Parody Performance Art, By Michael Pollan
“What he has decided to do with this broad and influential platform is to turn inward, describing his thought process as he labors over wood fires and onions or as he lobbies for the approval of his bread-baking mentor with a ‘crumb shot’ of his homemade sourdough.”
Cairo – In Need Of Artistic Revitalization
“It’s a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society,” he says. “So the city is abandoned.”
Why Is China Copying Western Icons, Towns, Cities?
Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it’s all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called “copy towns.”
Nearly Half A Billion Dollars: Christie’s Holds Richest Art Auction In History
“Record prices for 12 contemporary artists including Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat made history on Wednesday night. The sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center totaled $495 million, the highest sales figure at any art auction.”
Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities
“Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country’s ancient temples.”
Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees
“The Kennedy Center hopes to bring greater transparency to a selection process that has been largely opaque in past years. Last year, some national Hispanic advocacy groups criticized the Honors’ selection process after noting that only two of the 186 honorees since 1978 were Hispanic.”
Fired Rochester Phil Music Director Takes Another Rochester Post
“Arild Remmereit has been named artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Orchestra for next season. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra board, in a controversial move, fired Remmereit in January from his position as music director.”
Does Britain Need Any More Theatres?
Will new playhouses create new activity and help regenerate their neighborhoods and towns? Will they just be yet more parties in the never-ending scramble for public and private funding? Lyn Gardner starts the discussion.