What To Do With All Those Empty Building Sites During A Recession? Why Not Temporary Inflatable Buildings?

“In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city – boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up.”

What Laurie Anderson Really Thinks About ‘Performance Art’

On the news that her work is studied in college curricula: “They’re teaching that stuff? Uh-oh. Those kind of phrases like ‘gender studies’ or ‘performance art’ kind of give me the creeps. … You don’t have to be writing a book and have people ask ‘Why are you writing a book? You’re a performance artist!’ The thing is that I often start working on one medium, and it turns into a different one. I start working on an opera and it turns into a potato print.”

‘My Heart Sank,’ Librarian Testifies At First Folio Theft Trial

When Raymond Scott brought the book to the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2008, librarian Richard Kuhta testified, ”He started flicking through the pages very quickly showing me it was a first edition. I was startled by the way in which the book was being handled and by the sudden realisation that the man seemed to know it was a first edition.”