Henry James’s Guy Dornville was one of the 19th century’s most notorious flops, and we definitely don’t revere Virginia Woolf for Freshwater or James Joyce for Exiles – any more than we revere Shaw, Pirandello or Stoppard for their prose fiction.
Tag: 07.01.10
Charles Saatchi Gives Gallery, 200 Works To UK
The 67-year-old collector “announced today that the 70,000 sq ft gallery would be renamed MOCA London (Museum of Contemporary Art, London) when he retires, and would feature ‘a strong, rotating permanent collection of major installations’, all of it free to the public.” The donated art “will include seminal YBA pieces such as Tracey Emin’s My Bed.”
Peter Gelb On Who’s Calling The Shots At The Met
“I am the artistic director of the Met. I think people like to think I’m just a marketing person, but the fact is these artistic decisions, whether you like them or not, are coming from me. They’re not coming from any board members. I made it very clear when I was hired that I am making all artistic decisions here.”
US Shuts Down Websites For Film, TV Piracy
“Federal authorities announced that they had seized domain names from nine websites engaged in the ‘criminal theft of American movies and television.’ The websites include TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and Ninjavideo.net. Combined, the sites drew 6.7 million visitors a month, authorities said.”
Parsing Wonder Woman’s New Look
“The makeover purges the Americana from her clothes. She no longer looks as though she’s wearing a flag. She has shrugged off parochialism to become an international sophisticate.”
W.S. Merwin Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The 82-year-old Merwin “has won just about every major award an American poet can, among them two Pulitzer Prizes, for The Shadow of Sirius in 2009 and for The Carrier of Ladders in 1971; and the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New and Selected Poems.“
Peter Pan – The Stadium Tour
Okay, it’s more like a circus tour, crossed with IMAX. “As the opening of what the producers hope will be a 20-month-long U.S. run – beginning with a stay of several months [in San Francisco] – a visually dazzling, London-born production of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan opened in May in a round white tent … [with] a circular, convex video screen” on its ceiling.