“In selecting him, the Met seems to have opted for intellectual heft as well as continuity. Educated at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Mr. Campbell arrived at the museum in 1995 and built his reputation through much-praised catalogs that were both scholarly and sumptuous, and shows involving complex logistics and diplomacy.”
Tag: 09.09.08
Twyla Tharp Among This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees
“BarbraStreisand joins actor Morgan Freeman, dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp, country music singer George Jones and British rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who as the 2008 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.”
LA Opera’s Fly Premiere Is A “Ponderous” Effort
“Despite the inventive staging and all-out efforts of an admirable cast “The Fly” is a ponderous and enervating opera, and the problem is Howard Shore’s music.
LA Opera’s The Fly – Buzz Off
“A muddled concept (put into words by librettist David Henry Hwang) and a balked score by Howard Shore have left this Fly buzzing pointlessly against the pane.”
Lawsuit: Claims Disturbia A Rip Off Of Hitchcock
A lawsuit claims Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures Corp. ripped off “Rear Window” when they made the movie “Disturbia.”
The Fly Opera – A Monster Mash
I am at a loss to understand why “The Fly” has turned out so dreary, despite the inclusion of sex, nudity, puppetry and athleticism.
Joffrey Opens Its New Chicago Home
“The company’s new three-floor, glass-and-steel complex at 10 E. Randolph — a permanent home that is part of a larger condominium structure, and complete with seven state-of-the-art rehearsal studios (including one that can morph into a 144-seat black box theater), offices, a wardrobe and laundry suite, a physical therapy room and an on-site box office — has been a long time coming.”
Carnegie Museums Steps In To Control Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Festival
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which has become “increasingly concerned about the financial health” of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, is assuming responsibility for day-to-day operations and has eliminated the festival’s two senior managerial positions.
Damien Hirst Defnds Against Robert Hughes’ Criticisms
“Rembrandt, Velasquez, Goya, I think they were all thinking about the commercial aspects of art,” Hirst said. “I believe I’m only doing what any of these artists would be doing if they were alive.” But Hirst also said he put art first and money was secondary.
Textbook Piracy – Hard To Get Outraged By It
“As a writer, how can I support this? I should be an absolutist on copyright protection for all books, magazines, and newspapers. But I’m not. The publishers have disgraced themselves, and they are paying the price. Three-hundred-dollar textbooks in the hard sciences are not unusual, and the companies are selling to a captive audience. Hundred-dollar add-ons, masquerading as digital workbooks, or problem-solving sets, are not uncommon.”