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Tag: 06.06.12
Ray Bradbury, 91
“By many estimations Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream. His name would appear near the top of any list of major science-fiction writers of the 20th century, beside those of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein and the Polish author Stanislaw Lem.”
Theatre Pre-Dating Shakespeare’s Globe Unearthed In London
“Pre-dating the riverside Globe, the Curtain theatre, north of the river Thames in Shoreditch, was home to Shakespeare’s company – the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Remains of walls forming the gallery and the yard within the venue have been discovered by archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).”
Small Actors Protest Their Exclusion From “Snow White” Film
Makers of the hit film Snow White and the Huntsman are facing a backlash from dwarf actors after choosing a group of fully-sized British stars to play the heroine’s friends.
Could Kickstarter Create A New Generation Of Citizen Producers?
“As Kickstarter has exploded in popularity, I’ve started to see signs that there are others like me — a movement of fans as producers, commissioning work from their favorite artists instead of waiting for the artists to come to them. It feels like the next logical step in the evolution of fan funding.”
Washington’s National Symphony Announces 2013 European Tour
“When the NSO went to China in 2009, it was the orchestra’s first tour in seven years. Now, it appears that touring, as NSO Music Director Christoph Esch enbach promised, is becoming a matter of course. … Only eight months after its return from South America, the orchestra will go on another tour, of Europe, for 11 days in January and February.”
Is A Split Mission At The Heart Of The Corcoran’s Troubles?
“Few marriages have the potential to be as uneasy as that between an art museum and an art school. … Behind the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s controversial decision Monday to consider moving … is a bold gambit to thrive in a national cultural landscape where it has been much more common for museums and art schools to fall out of love and go their separate ways.”
Or Are The Corcoran’s Problems Mostly About Its Leadership?
Philip Kennicott: “[Museum insiders] acknowledged years of erratic leadership, and a board of directors that has flailed about from crisis to crisis. … These things don’t just demoralize staff, they create the toxic sense of a rudderless institution, which makes deep-pocketed supporters ‘run for the hills,’ in the words of one observer.”