“At one time or another he represented the painters Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Milton Resnick and Joan Nelson, the painter and sculptor Louise Bourgeois and, in addition to [Robert] Mapplethorpe, the photographers Bruce Weber and Jan Groover. The gallery also represented the estates of Diane Arbus, Eva Hesse and Jean-Michel Basquiat.”
Tag: 06.27.11
From The Director Who Brought Us Enron, A 9/11 ‘Theatrical Spectacular’
“Award-winning director Rupert Goold is to court controversy with a theatrical spectacular exploring the legacy of 9/11 on its 10th anniversary. He is working with international writers Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Laverty, Ken Loach’s long-term collaborator, to produce the show.”
Where Did The Universe Come From? There Is No Universe, Says Chemist
“Peter Atkins, a British chemist and science writer, offers an intriguing answer to those questions. To understand how something can come out of nothing, he writes, you have to appreciate the fact that ‘there probably isn’t anything here anyway’ — that ‘at a deep level there is nothing’ in the universe, really.”
Louvre Rejects Request To Loan Mona Lisa To Italy
“An attempt to have the Mona Lisa return from France for a temporary visit to Italy has been dismissed by gallery chiefs.” Said a Louvre official, “Any attempt to move the painting would cause incalculable damage – it’s just not worth the risk.”
Admiring ‘The Greatest Persian Carpet Ever Made’
Christopher Knight on the Ardabil Carpet: “[S]tand at one end of the enormous carpet – it’s more than 23 feet long and 13 feet wide – and an immense garden of formal and conceptual splendor unfurls before you. … With its deep indigo field, the floral carpet, royally commissioned for a dynastic shrine, pictures a sky garden’s vivacious glory spread beneath your feet.”
Did Shakespeare Smoke Pot? Researcher Wants To Test His Bones To Find Out
“A South African anthropologist has asked permission to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed the Bard and whether his poems and plays may have been composed under the influence of marijuana.”
One Million Attendees At Hong Kong Book Fair?
“It’s no idle boast that it has become one of the largest events of its kind in Asia – and a rival to the likes of the massive Kolkata Book Fair in India in terms of attendance and the Frankfurt Book Fair in terms of books featured.”
Festival Criticized By Canadian Government Loses Its Government Funding
“Toronto’s SummerWorks theatre and music festival, which was criticized by the Stephen Harper government in the past for staging a play related to the Toronto 18 terrorist plot, has lost its funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage.”
US Supreme Court Strikes Down Video Game Censorship
“The vaguely worded legislation that sought to impose punishments on stores selling violent video games to minors was shot down (destroyed by lasers?). While most of us would agree there are repulsive bits in many of the most popular video games (“Grand Theft Auto”) and watching too much is bad for children and other living things, we’ll decide for ourselves.”
Reviews? What Reviews? Spider-Man Box Office Booms After Relaunch
The latest numbers, released Monday by The Broadway League, show the comic book musical was the third-highest-grossing show on Broadway after “Wicked” ($1.83 million) and “The Lion King” ($1.74 million).