“Do English, Indonesian, Russian, and Turkish speakers end up attending to, partitioning, and remembering their experiences differently just because they speak different languages?”
Tag: 06.12.09
Seiji Ozawa Has Emergency Hernia Operation
“The 73-year-old conductor has cancelled three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic – two in Vienna on June 19 and 21, and one in Paris on June 22 – after ‘undergoing emergency surgery 48 hours ago for a hernia’.”
Riots And Firearms: The Mayhem Caused By Bruno
In making his latest documentary-by-ambush, Sacha Baron Cohen – in character as a flamboyantly queeny fashion designer – was threatened with guns “when Bruno danced around [a Deep South] campsite naked … In one scene Bruno sparks a riot at a cage fighting contest when the competitors start kissing. In another scene Bruno appears on an American chat show, telling the studio audience that he adopted his baby in Africa by swapping him for an iPod.”
In France, Musical Theatre Tries To Build A Following
“Broadway- and West End-style musicals have gained ground in Gaul, expanding the fledgling market for French tuners with live musicians and a genuine dramatic arc. French producers Dove Attia and Albert Cohen’s $10 million operatic rock musical ‘Mozart,’ skedded for a September bow, epitomizes this relatively new trend.”
Fan Favorite – Blind Cliburn Piano Competition Winner
“Shaggy-haired Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind since birth, proved a favorite early on. The standing ovations began after his performance in the preliminary rounds, when he played the Chopin Etudes, and continued all the way through the finals.”
Simon & Schuster Sets Up Virtual Store
Works by famed horror author Stephen King and comedian Steve Martin are among nearly 5,000 electronic books the publisher has available at Scribd.com.
Voting For £100,000 Art Fund Prize Shut Down Over “Irregularities”
The annual Art Fund Prize – the UK’s largest single arts prize – honours the most imaginative and original museum or gallery of the year. “Since it appears that there may be some potential irregularities with the online voting for the Art Fund Prize, we have regretfully closed the poll early while we undertake a full investigation into the matter.”
Museums Reassess Their Security
“In the aftermath of the killing of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, allegedly by white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn, museum officials were taking another look.”
Needed: Art Fairs That Are More Curated
“It’s a common complaint that many fairs lack a ‘focus’. In this process of transformation the curator, together with the artist and the gallery owner, can provide new perspectives on contemporary art practices and trends and redefine the art fair artistically. The fair benefits from the prestige, know-how and contacts of the curator and, in exchange, the curator gets a new curatorial platform.”
LA’s Largest Theatre Lays Off Staff
“Center Theatre Group, the West Coast’s largest nonprofit stage company, has laid off 12 employees — a tenth of its full-time staff of 120. Those who remain will absorb one or two weeks’ unpaid furlough in the coming year, with the highest-earning third losing two weeks.”