“The photographer Annie Leibovitz’s $24 million loan was due Tuesday, but by the end of the work day, it appeared that little had happened between her and her lender.”
Tag: 09.08.09
Despite Her Troubles, Photography Owes Annie Leibovitz A Lot
“Annie, who dunked Kate Winslet in water, roped up Clint Eastwood and bathed Whoopi Goldberg in milk, is saucy but always for a reason – her pictures show us something we have never seen before: humour in the po-faced, age in the beautiful, vulnerability in the powerful, poise in the angry.”
Which Is The World’s Most Beautiful Outdoor Theatre?
Mark Fisher of The Guardian has a few suggestions, from The Minack on the rocky coast of Cornwall to Switzerland’s Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne; readers offer their own candidates.
Classical Music Finds A Place In Nightclubs
“Though classical music isn’t supposed to make you want to drink (quite the opposite), that option is increasingly available in trendy New York settings better known for indie rock.” For performers and audience, a club venue makes for a very different experience.
A Course By Any Other Name Would Have Fewer Students
“As schools compete for students and faculty come under pressure to boost enrollment in their classes, colleges from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to Wellesley are jazzing up course catalogs to entice a generation of students drawn to the dramatic.” And it’s working.
As Europe Objects To Books Deal, Google Tries To Pacify
“Google said it would limit the out-of-print books it plans to make available online in order to appease European publishers, authors and other copyright holders objecting to a proposed American court settlement allowing Google to sell digital books on the Internet.”
Tell Me, Mr. Saatchi, Why Is Your Book A Series Of Q&As?
Coming from a notoriously closed-mouthed public figure, “the publication of My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic (MNICSAIAAA) is in many ways a much bigger sensation in the art world than any number of rotting cow’s heads. … It’s the format that really confounds expectations, though.”
What TV’s Fame Did For Dance
Royal Ballet principal ballerina Tamara Rojo: “There weren’t many programmes about ballet in Spain at the time, and the ones there were showed ballet as very serious and professional. Suddenly, Fame came out and it was about dance for young people….”
How Diaghilev’s Parisian Debut Changed Everything
This is the centenary of the “season in which the Russian arts connoisseur and promoter brought his country’s ballet out of the hallowed halls of its imperial theaters and onto the stages of Western Europe and beyond. One might reasonably characterize Diaghilev’s now-landmark venture as triggering the applause heard ’round the world for the art of ballet.”
Mantel, Coetzee, Byatt Shortlisted For Man Booker Prize
“JM Coetzee could become the first author ever to win a hat-trick of Man Booker prizes, after his latest novel Summertime was this morning shortlisted for the literary award.” The other finalists: bookies’ heavy favorite Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, A.S. Byatt, Adam Foulds and Simon Mawer.