“Will the DIA survive the city’s financial crisis, or will collateral damage from the march toward bankruptcy leave the museum mortally wounded?”
Tag: 06.30.13
If We Own National Museums, Shouldn’t We Be Able To Borrow The Art?
“In an era of austerity, one way to share out our nation’s cultural treasures would be to do something about the thousands of artworks that currently sit in the vaults of our museums.”
Maybe It’s Cool That Google Killed Google Reader
“In killing Reader, Google created a new product category overnight: the Google Reader replacement.”
U.S. Museums Are Intent On Keeping Their Nazi-Looted Art
“Museums like the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have tried to deter claimants from filing suit by beating them to the courthouse and asking judges to declare the museums the rightful owners.”
Cirque de Soleil Performer Dies After 50-Foot Fall During Performance
“Guyard-Guillot was being hoisted up the side of the stage when she plummeted to an open pit below.”
Nelson Mandela May Be Failing, But The Madiba Dance Lives On
“His dancing style, today known as the Madiba dance, is still popular on the streets of Johannesburg.” [AUDIO]
Hollywood: Cast. More. Women.
“At the current rate, however, reaching a parity of female and male characters would take about 700 years.”
New L.A. Mayor Vows To Keep Film & TV Production In Town
“We need to market L.A. aggressively and creatively, to the whole world, as the gateway to the Pacific Rim, and the gateway to new ideas and innovations.”
How (The Hell) Does An Activist Puppet Theater Survive For 50 Years?
The finances are precarious, but Bread and Puppet Theatre doesn’t seem to mind – because it’s too much fun: “We created a very powerful daffodil attack force with a daffodil navy and daffodil knights and daffodil weaponry and that’s going to fight the F-35 very effectively.”