She’s run the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 1995. “During her partnership with executive director Paul Nicholson, the festival — founded in 1935 as an intermission between outdoor boxing matches — has seen its budget double to $24 million with the help of donors such as Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire entrepreneur Paul Allen. It was named one of the top five regional theaters in the country by Time magazine and is now one of the nation’s biggest repertory companies, with 774 performances of 11 plays and a company of 475, including 91 actors.”
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Architect George Yu, 43
“With a deep interest in digital design tempered by an obsession with the act of making, Yu emerged in the last five years or so as an important link between the city’s leading firms and architects in their 20s and 30s, many of whom Yu taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and elsewhere.”
Hirst’s Shark Loaned To Met
Damien Hirst’s shark is being loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three years by hedge fund manager Steven Cohen. “The 1991 work, whose full title is ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,’ was bought by Cohen for $8 million in 2005. The original shark was disintegrating at the time of the sale, and the artist had it replaced.”
Christie’s Bursting With Sales
“London-based Christie’s sold 1.61 billion pounds ($3.27 billion) of art and collectibles in the first half, compared with 1.24 billion pounds a year earlier, according to a statement to be released today. Contemporary auctions more than doubled to 459 million pounds, including an Andy Warhol car-crash picture that took $71.7 million in New York.”
Ingmar Bergman’s Loney Remote Exile
He lives on the remotest island in the Baltic Sea, and it takes considerable effort to get there. “This is where the 88-year-old Ingmar Bergman, one of the legends of world cinema, is spending his last days. He first came to the island more than 40 years ago, scouting locations for Through A Glass Darkly (1961) and fell in love with Faro. Within moments of arriving, he had decided he wanted to live here.”