With the new “Set in Stone” study to draw from, museums can ask the right questions about expansion (and so can funders, and journalists, for that matter).
Tag: 09.03.12
Marjorie Satrapi Goes Beyond Memoir
Satrapi, on her new movie Chicken with Plums, based on her book of the same name: “”I like to be sad once in a while. … You need it for your equilibrium. At the moment in my life when I wrote the book, I had a lot of questions about life, love, and death.”
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s September Concerts Endangered
“Symphony officials said the concerts scheduled for Sept. 14-15 and Sept. 21-23 would be canceled unless a new contract agreement is reached by Friday.”
Pandora Gets A No-Ad Competitor From Finland
The catch? You have to have a Nokia Lumia phone.
Warhol Comes To The Big Box Stores
In a self-replicating bizarro world moment, you can get Warhol labels on your actual Campbell’s tomato soup cans for 75 cents down at your local Target.
Despite Blockbusters (And Crazy $$ For The Avengers), Box Office Is Down
Summer box office receipts fell about 3 percent compared to last year – and audience numbers were the lowest in 20 years.
But That Summer Box Office Isn’t All About The Boys
“As tempting as it is to think of summer as ‘boy movie season’ and fall as ‘grown-up lady film season,’ our cinematic habits are, thankfully, much more nuanced than that.”
The Olympics: Disastrous For London Museums
“Museums in London suffered dramatic falls in visitor numbers in the run-up to the Olympic Games, with some as much as 40% down on last year.”
Allan Kozinn’s Facebook Statement
What Kozinn himself had to say about the surprise reassignment: “I’ve heard, seen and covered a few lifetimes worth of great and interesting music although there’s a great deal more I wanted to do – I’ve really enjoyed watching the new music world really catch fire in recent years.”
Calixto Bieito Mashes Up The Forest Of Arden, Birnam Wood, Etc.
“A huge pile of soil has been tipped over the floor; actors writhe and squirm through the mulch beneath a blasted tree festooned with red balloons. It looks like a cross between a garden centre, a children’s party and one of Samuel Beckett’s bleaker visions. It is in fact the setting for Bieito’s latest work, Forests – a piece for which the unpredictable but often brilliant Catalan director has scoured the works of Shakespeare for every mention of a wood, a copse or a bosky glade, and cut-and-pasted them into an epic, arboreal mash-up.”