“Ancient Egyptian temples were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political, economic and religious calendars by them. So finds a study of 650 temples, some dating back to 3000 BC.”
Tag: 09.08.09
Five London Companies Named To Lead City’s ‘Big Dance’ Festival
The five troupes, which include English National Ballet and Sadler’s Wells, will each oversee activities in one geographic area of greater London. “The five dance hubs will present site-specific events in shops, parks, museums and galleries, with an overall aim of encouraging people to get involved in dance and generating a legacy for the art form after the [2012] Olympic Games.”
Arts Council England To Hire 150 ‘Assessors’ To Report On Funded Orgs
“ACE is looking to recruit 150 arts practitioners, critics, managers and academics to carry out assessments on the work of its regularly funded organisations, which will be used to inform the body’s funding decisions.”
North Of England To Get Its Own Elizabethan-Style Theatre, With Acting Company Attached
“Touring theatre group the British Shakespeare Company is laying plans to use the full-size replica of the Rose Theatre featured in Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love as its new permanent home in the north of England.”
With Readers’ Help, Reporter To Pen Quick Chick-Lit Novel
“Is it completely insane to try to finish a first draft of an entire novel in three weeks?” writes Dahlia Lithwick, who ordinarily covers the Supreme Court. “Is there something quintessentially chick-lit-ish about trying to do something patently impossible and overreaching? Yes! But that’s where you come in.”
A Saunter Through The Met With NY Phil’s New Conductor
“What I like about museums is that people can come in and look around without feeling Âinadequate if they don’t understand everything they see,” Alan Gilbert says. “But classical-music concerts have become identified with a pretentious notion that a listener must understand every note to enjoy the music.”
Army Archerd, Variety Writer Since 1950s, Dies At 87
“Army Archerd, who became an industry institution and beloved figure in his more than half a century at Daily Variety, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. … Archerd was one of the first writers to link AIDS to a celebrity when he wrote a piece detailing, amid denials from the actor’s publicists and managers, that Rock Hudson was undergoing treatment for AIDS.”
Met Museum’s New Boss Begins Assembling His Team
“Ever since Thomas P. Campbell took over as director of the [museum] on Jan. 1, there has been speculation about when he would put together his own senior management team … On Tuesday the museum’s board of trustees met and approved the first [four] of Mr. Campbell’s top appointments.”
Filming Jerome Robbins’s N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz
A group of New York City Ballet dancers is shooting a video version of Robbins’s gritty 1958 “ballet in sneakers,” presenting the work’s episodes in locations (an empty gym, a Brooklyn swimming pool) suggested by Ben Shahn’s backdrops for the original staging.
Let A Thousand Low-Power Radio Stations Bloom
“A bill now before Congress, and considered by some low-power radio advocates to have a good chance of passage this year, would potentially double the number of licensed, low-power stations from about 800 now to perhaps 1,600 or more. At the same time, technology is shifting the boundaries and definitions of what it means to be local, and even what it means to be radio.”