“No. 1: They’re still readable when the Cloud goes down. No. 2: They make great kindling. … No. 3: Push comes to shove, they’re great insulating material. You could make a little igloo out of books if you really had to. I think of them as a form of carbon sequestration – all the CO2 is tied up in books.”
Tag: 09.08.13
Here’s A Barn, Let’s Put On A Museum (OK, There’s A Little More To It Than That, But…)
“Here’s a quick, relatively inexpensive and aesthetically surefire way to construct a first-rate museum building for art. It turns out to be as simple as one, two, three.”
Scottish Parliament Debates Safety Of Museums Loaning Art Treasures
“In a candid submission to the Scottish Parliament committee considering The Burrell Collection (Lending And Borrowing) Bill, Dr Nicholas Penny, the director of the National Gallery in London, says moving works of art has led to several major accidents, incidents and damage to works, many of which have not come to public attention.”
That Strange Alchemy Of The Onstage Partnership
“There are, of course, celebrated acting pairs — Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy — who made careers, or at least minicareers, of their chemistry. But sometimes it’s unexpected or unlikely pairings that also entice.”
The Mysterious Warehouse In Newport Beach That Might Have The Largest Collection Of California Artists Ever
“Even art historians and curators who have never been inside the warehouse say that based on what the owner is known to have bought at galleries and auctions over the years, the collection probably runs to more than a thousand pieces. It’s likely, they said, the largest private collection of works by California artists.”
Just Who Was The Real Benjamin Britten?
There were at least a few to choose from…
Star Soprano Deborah Voigt Drops Out Of Washington’s ‘Tristan and Isolde’ A Week Before Opening
“No great disaster led to this decision. There was simply a feeling, in rehearsals, that some of the toughest passages of this notoriously tough role — like the famous intoxicating climax of Act II — weren’t coming as well as she wanted. “
American Dancer David Hallberg Is Nervous, But He’s Still Going Back To The Bolshoi
“I questioned my safety — I don’t have a bodyguard, I have no protection — but what I didn’t question was my commitment to the company.”
The Decades Later Late Night Return Of Talk Show Host Arsenio Hall
“Will America buy it? Anyone’s guess.”
Publish A Huge Bestselling Memoir, Find A Long-Lost Sibling
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild: “I didn’t know if we would ever find each other, honestly. She knew I existed. I don’t even think that she knew my first name. She just knew that she had older siblings that my father had another family before she came along.”